Mayor Mendenhall’s 2021 state of the city speech: equity, development, housing at the center
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall reported on her administration’s first-year progress and highlighted its plan for 2021 in her state of the city speech this week. Housing and development were major components of the mayor’s 36-minute statement. She insisted that equity – along with her signature campaign issue, air quality – would be the […]
Affordable housing to be built on properties owned by former councilman who resisted it on the west side
Add these units, if approved, to the nearly 2,300 that were proposed in 2020, a year in which builders started capitalizing on high-density transit area zoning and easier financing through the area’s status as an opportunity zone.
Salt Lake City Hall and the Utah State Capitol skated through the earthquake of March 2020 – but only one is open
The convergence of an earthquake and a pandemic shuttered the gorgeous, historic Salt Lake City & County Building in March, 2020. A handful of broken windows during BLM protests in June contributed to its turn inward. Mayor Mendenhall has no plans to open the building to the public until Covid transmission levels are at the […]
Builders make a pitch for an all-studio rental apartment building Downtown
The Bookbinder on 2nd West would add 115 more units in a 76,000-square-foot, seven-story building. If built, it would continue the ongoing rush of residential construction Downtown.
Developers want to replace single-family office space with new infill housing in Central City neighborhood
There’s no slowing the incoming residential tide in the Downtown area of Salt Lake City, with another project proposed on a small site of 400 East, two doors down from another. The aQui apartments would bring 60 new market-rate rental units to a 0.22-acre site just north of TRAX on 400 South. It will include […]
Developers not waiting for city’s affordable housing overlay to build a rooming house in East Central
In one of the city’s most in-demand neighborhoods – less than a mile from the University of Utah – local developers have applied to build a “Co-living Rooming House” and are willing to seek four separate approvals (two that will have to go to the city council) to get it done. At 129 South 700 […]
Editorial: Utah cities could connect by passenger rail in 5 years if a state agency can coordinate billions in federal funding
In recent years, the Wasatch Front has enjoyed the addition of commuter rail, light rail, and a streetcar. However, options are still limited for those wishing to travel beyond the Wasatch Front without a car. For the past decade, I’ve been researching how Utah could expand passenger rail across our state and connect to cities […]
Developers share details on the building that will replace the historic Utah Theater and alter Salt Lake City’s skyline
The Main Street Apartments will continue the ongoing and rapid addition of housing into Salt Lake City’s Downtown core, adding 400 apartments in a 31-story building that’s just shy of 400 feet tall.
Another mixed-use building on its way to 200 East as developers knock on doorstep of Broadway retail
At just over 100 feet tall, Moda Luxe will be among the taller buildings east of State Street, with space for two ground-floor restaurants.
In pictures: Downtown SLC construction bubbles along despite Covid
No one would say that energy levels are high in Downtown Salt Lake City these days. But there’s an unmistakable hum and a tap-tap-tap in the air, as construction projects large and small continue apace. We counted 1873 units under construction Downtown between 500 East and 600 West, North Temple and 500 South. Paperbox Lofts […]
