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The Rio Grande Plan, updated: Putting trains underground in Depot and Granary Districts gets Salt Lake City’s attention
A plan designed by citizen-professionals that would reinvigorate train transport, remove barriers between Downtown and the city’s west side, and free up hundreds of acres to redevelopment has been making its way to some “important stakeholders” since we last reported. Conceived in 2020, the Rio Grande Plan has lifted a lot of eyebrows since. Its […]
Builders plan to convert a shuttered hotel Downtown into hundreds of new micro apartments
A Denver-based team has paired up with a local developer to redevelop the Red Lion Hotel towers and surrounding site near Salt Lake City’s Downtown, the team announced this week. The development would come in two phases, with a conversion to nearly 200 micro apartments late next year and promises of a mixed-use development soon […]
Millcreek has a plan to allow highway-scale digital billboards in its new downtown, which it just planned and zoned as pedestrian-first
Millcreek’s first steps in place-making a new downtown are well under construction at 3300 South between Highland Drive and 1300 East. Riding the momentum of the city’s incorporation in 2016, leaders have shepherded a TIF area, a master plan, a zoning overlay, conversations with developers and residents, and property acquisitions for public space along a […]
Builders buy more land, plan for a bigger new housing development in the Granary District
After picking up another piece of property to build on, a developer has resubmitted plans for a new apartment building in the Granary District that would now include more studio units. The SoHi Apartments would include 153 units — up from 104 when it was originally submitted in October 2020 and approved this spring. All […]
Developers of boarding-house concept get thumbs-up, then down, after procedural error causes do-over at Planning Commission
The prospective developers of a prime 1.55 acre site between Downtown and the University of Utah at 129 S 700 East got Planning Commission sign-off for a zoning and master plan change for their shared-housing project in June. A procedural mistake by Planning department staff, violating local ordinance, voided that vote. In their return to […]
The Utah Pantages Theater is on its way to gaining national landmark status. Will it matter before the city sells it to developers?
All the hearings are over. No more public presentations, reviews, or comments are required. The Utah Theater property at 144 S. Main, owned by the city’s Redevelopment Agency (RDA), is teed up to be sold to developers as soon as the parties can agree on contract terms. The deal – essentially giving away the theater […]
The owner of the shuttered Coachman’s diner unveils his surprise: a massive mixed-use condo building
When Mike Nikols announced he was closing his family’s iconic diner at 1300 S. State St. and began lobbying the city to rezone his family’s nearly 2 acres of land, he kept details about his future plans for the site a secret. A pleasant surprise, if you will. He successfully lobbied the city to rezone […]
Dinwoodey Mansion, originally marketed as a tear-down, is protected from demolition after all
Days after a neighborhood Facebook group reposted a real estate listing for 411 and 419 East 100 South as “Tear down dwellings that are necessary to build future apartment or condo buildings,” the consensus among preservationists – including the keepers of records at city hall – was that the Dinwoodey was on the national but […]
Former Walgreens near North Temple would be replaced by 397 multi-family homes under new plan
Developers would add 397 housing units in three, six-story apartment buildings in Salt Lake City’s North Temple transit corridor under the latest proposal for the area. The project would fill a large surface parking lot and replace a former Walgreens on a sprawling, 3-acre parcel at 150 N. 900 W, just north of Rancho Markets. […]
