SLC Planning Commission asks if drive-thrus should be allowed in Sugar House

Get Building Salt Lake in your inbox * indicates required Email Address * There’s a drive-thru in Sugar House that’s well-known throughout the city. For six days of the week, a fast food chicken restaurant sends people in cars streaming onto the adjacent sidewalk and […]
August rundown: New food hall, more hotels and rentals on Redwood

Get Building Salt Lake in your inbox * indicates required Email Address * Between a new bouldering gym facility that opens at 7 a.m. and a new bar that closes at 1 a.m. (on weekends), the Granary District is now an 18-hour neighborhood. And there’s […]
Motel 6 in South Downtown could be replaced by new high-rise

Get Building Salt Lake in your inbox * indicates required Email Address * The shifting footprint of Downtown Salt Lake City shows no sign of slowing through the potential upcoming recession. The latest example: A low-rate motel on the fringe of the Downtown core would […]
UTA and Ogden are searching for a developer to build a new Union Station Campus

Get Building Salt Lake in your inbox * indicates required Email Address * Ogden and the Utah Transit Authority are searching for a developer who can revitalize the city’s Union Station Building and transform 35 acres of land into a thriving neighborhood. The goal? Create […]
New ‘mysterious’ cidery looks to open taproom in Poplar Grove

Support Salt Lake City’s No. 1 source of independent journalism focused on urban growth, development and policy by subscribing to Building Salt Lake. Poplar Grove would get its first watering hole as a pair of local entrepreneurs looks to open a cidery just west of I-15. In a recently rehabbed building at 730 W. 900 […]
Builders line up another single-use building on 400 South

Get Building Salt Lake in your inbox * indicates required Email Address * Developers would build a seven-story, single-use residential building in the transit area zoning of the Central City neighborhood under a new proposal filed this week. At 421 S. 400 E., builders would add 237 new homes in a seven-story building that partially […]
Two more new developments would bring 600 additional homes to the Granary District

Get Building Salt Lake in your inbox * indicates required Email Address * Developers are continuing their rush of construction in the Granary District, with two new mid-rise, mixed-use projects proposed in recent weeks. One, near Fisher Brewing, knocks on the door of the all-ages music venue Kilby Court. But the developer has promised to […]
SLC Schools making plans to rebuild West and Highland High

Get Building Salt Lake in your inbox * indicates required Email Address * The Salt Lake City School District is looking for firms to come up with plans and cost estimates that would potentially guide a bond to rebuild West High and Highland High schools in the coming years. While a pair of bid requests […]
The state has abandoned its plan to build a 10-story liquor store parking tower on Edison Street

For a thorough list of projects in any neighborhood, Building Salt Lake Members can use the Enhanced Search function to find stories about projects in neighborhoods they’re most interested in. The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services is backing down from a plan to build a 10-story parking garage onto one of Salt Lake City’s walkable […]
Builders are lining up a series of for-sale projects in Glendale

Glendale is due for a flurry of redevelopment, and builders are ready to deliver. A handful of projects put forward in recent months would add new housing with minimal displacement of existing homes and residents. Developers have pitched the projects — most of them for-sale and at least two of them affordable — to infill […]