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Some news regarding Research Park up by the University of Utah:

University of Utah plans major revamp of research park on Foothill Drive, adding lots of housing

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/06/...6vN8hkvkMzA8Z4

The University of Utah is planning a major transformation of its research park along Foothill Drive, aimed at making it a more walkable and residentially focused area with better access to the school’s main campus.

The Salt Lake City school’s latest vision, in the works since early 2019, includes new offices and laboratories spread across the Wasatch foothills site, with lots of new housing, a hotel, retail spaces and community gathering spots — all served by expanded transit and parking options designed to reduce automobile traffic.

The new master plan also imagines as many as 8,550 new apartments and town homes built in the park over the next two decades, much of it clustered on its southern end.

Work in the park over the next five years, he said, would focus on overhauling the intersection at Wakara Way and Chipeta Way, bringing portions of a stream under Colorow Road to the surface and redeveloping two commercial properties nearby.

The project’s second phase, between five and 10 years from now, will involve the U. taking “a very aggressive approach” to improving bus and TRAX access to the park and connecting it better to the main campus and the U.’s health services buildings.

This phase would also see improving natural connections between Red Butte Creek on the park’s western boundary with Matheson Nature Preserve and This is The Place Heritage park to its east.

Final phases between 2030 and 2040 would bring the creation of at least three so-called “campus mobility hubs” that tie together different ways of getting around, to be built along high-capacity bus line extensions reaching inside the park.

A link to the RDA meeting today where the project was discussed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHXOQVxTCwQ

Here is a link to the Research Park plan:
https://realestate.utah.edu/research...n/#vision-plan