This has potential:
Zoning change clears the way for massive 647-unit apartment complex on city’s west side
May 26, 2021 01:27PM ● By Carl Fauver
By Carl Fauver |
carlf@mycityjournals.com
Unanimous votes by both the planning commission and city council have cleared the way for the largest influx of rentable housing to come to the city, through a single project, in the 25-year history of Taylorsville.
However, it’s still anyone’s guess as to when existing structures on the property will be demolished, new construction will begin, or the first tenants will call “West Point” home.
“I am excited about what this will bring to the city,” Councilman Dan Armstrong said. “I have a young son and he and his fiancée have been looking for an apartment. It’s just a really tight market. This project will add much-needed housing to a notoriously blighted part of our city. It will be such a plus.”
The “blighted” area is 16.49 acres, on the southwest corner of 5400 South and Bangerter Highway. Locals know it as “the old Kmart” store (long empty), some smaller ‘strip mall’ shops (vacant) and a massive parking lot. For years, city council members have rejected various zoning change proposals, because they didn’t care for what developers wanted to do with the high-profile acreage. One wanted to construct storage units. Another wanted to sell used cars and trucks.
But now Salt Lake-based Thackeray Company instead plans to construct 647 apartment units, and at least 10,000 square feet of commercial space, while surrounding them with nearly a thousand parking stalls, some on two levels.
Entire article with site plan here:
https://www.taylorsvillecityjournal....z5A0SP5pQk2Gak
And then preliminary renderings (I think they're just for massing and like, Mood Boards?) in the Taylorsville City Council documents here:
https://www.taylorsvilleut.gov/Home/...cument?id=6262
I've known that area for decades (lived up the street from it in Kearns, worked at Baskin-Robbins in that decaying strip mall for 3 years in high school), and it is truly blighted. But also potentially, a beautiful site with unmatched views of the Wasatch, the Oquirrhs, and one of my favorite views of a distant downtown. So...there's potential. Whether or not it happens, I dunno.
On another K-Mart grave on 3900 South and Redwood Road in WVC, they're already well into another huge complex, looks like 5-6 stories of wood above a podium. They've topped out on height for some of the buildings, and it's significant.
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Cool, thanks for the info. I had no idea Dwell had another project in the SL Valley. They're also doing CINQ, RIO, and the Theatre Tower in SLC proper, so that Taylorsville project should be a cut above most of the apartment complexes being built in the valley in terms of design.
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