Salt Lake:Official development news thread - Page 108

Viperlord · #**2141** Posted **Aug 24, 2007, 2:40 AM**

The Bridges at Citifront condominiuns also broke ground this week. Located right by the gateway. South temple and 600 west roughly. 295 units in the development. Nothing too fancy, but it will add to the area population.

delts145 · #**2142** Posted **Aug 24, 2007, 3:23 AM**

^^^
Bridges at Citifront

http://www.bridgesatcitifront.com/bridges-site.html

Excellent location, next to Gateway and just north of the new main transportation terminal. Hopefully, this will go a long way in advancing that important up-and-coming street of 600 West.

They're saying 295 units Viper. Has that been changed to 200?

Site Plan

Viperlord · #**2143** Posted **Aug 24, 2007, 3:28 AM**

yeah, it should be 295. I worked on the project and I dont even know, how bad is that. LOL

actually. the engineering company I work for is involved in the construction process as well.

delts145 · #**2144** Posted **Aug 24, 2007, 3:36 AM**

I don't think that plot has ever been anything but railroad yard brown field,has it? It will be great to get that infill in there now.

Scraperdude801 · #**2145** Posted **Aug 24, 2007, 4:46 AM**

^

I like the green spaces they are adding. How many buildings are they constructing?

Comrade · #**2146** Posted **Aug 24, 2007, 5:00 AM**

Hm, I don't like this development. It looks like a typical suburban apartment complex. I wish they could have built an urban neighborhood there, with trees, rowhouses, apartments and even detatched housing.

Oh well, I guess.

Future Mayor · #**2147** Posted **Aug 24, 2007, 12:40 PM**

I gave it some thought and I think I'm on the same wave lenght as you comrade. From the drawings it looks very much like an apartment complex in the burbs.

delts145 · #**2148** Posted **Aug 24, 2007, 1:01 PM**

You guys are right in many respects regarding the building designs, and I felt the same way. If I remember right though, that particular plot is going to make this development have a much denser feel than say if it were out in the burbs. There is the landscaping and some open space, but it will be quite a bit of structure at several stories in height, in a comparatively compact area.
Perhaps Viper can give us a better feel since he was involved with the project.

Wasatch_One · #**2149** Posted **Aug 24, 2007, 5:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by Comrade Reynolds

Hm, I don't like this development. It looks like a typical suburban apartment complex. I wish they could have built an urban neighborhood there, with trees, rowhouses, apartments and even detatched housing.

Oh well, I guess.

When I saw this, I as well was like, meeeeh... very ho-hum, but given its location right next to the train tracks and I-15... I think its better than nothing and will continue to build population downtown.

I think Salt Lake is doing very well right now, I was in Denver 2 weeks ago and except for the wider streets we have here, SLC's downtown neighborhoods have a similar feel the Denver's. I would even go as far as saying Salt Lake has a cleaner overall feel...

Projects like this this and like Emmigration Court, though not the most aesthetically pleasing, still add a lot to DT. Looking at it as a glass half full, this is decent infill

Comrade · #**2150** Posted **Aug 24, 2007, 5:21 PM**

I just hate the idea of development for the sake of development, because it's not like we can go through and just demolish this in 10 years. There is a good chance these apartments will be there for most our lifetime, no matter how much the neighborhood changes.

The land isn't much, but they could have added some different styles and not just one massive, sprawling apartment complex. I'm thinking something like Daybreak, just on a very smaller scale (with maybe rowhouses and 5 or 6 story apartments thrown in).

Even something like this, just a bunch of them, would be far better than that.

Or a development like Marmalade. Oh well.

Wasatch_One · #**2151** Posted **Aug 24, 2007, 5:35 PM**

I agree 100% with you... im also trying to stay positive with this one! haha

... Seriously, Utah cities need more newer rowhouses and townhouses in their cores. Its nice that condo's are finally catching on, but I wish developers would consider some nice Brownstones in DT Salt Lake... THAT, would be awesome!

Future Mayor · #**2152** Posted **Aug 24, 2007, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Wasatch_One

Seriously, Utah cities need more newer rowhouses and townhouses in their cores. Its nice that condo's are finally catching on, but I wish developers would consider some nice Brownstones in DT Salt Lake... THAT, would be awesome!

I have thought about the brownstones for years now. I would love to see a few areas of the city redeveloped with brownstones and or row houses. I have a development bouncing around in my head for Salt Lake that includes some brownstone and or row houses that have a classic brownstone look to them.

Scraperdude801 · #**2153** Posted **Aug 24, 2007, 11:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Wasatch_One

I agree 100% with you... im also trying to stay positive with this one! haha

... Seriously, Utah cities need more newer rowhouses and townhouses in their cores. Its nice that condo's are finally catching on, but I wish developers would consider some nice Brownstones in DT Salt Lake... THAT, would be awesome!

that's what I'm tlaking about!!!

delts145 · #**2154** Posted **Aug 24, 2007, 11:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Wasatch_One

I agree 100% with you... im also trying to stay positive with this one! haha

... Seriously, Utah cities need more newer rowhouses and townhouses in their cores. Its nice that condo's are finally catching on, but I wish developers would consider some nice Brownstones in DT Salt Lake... THAT, would be awesome!

I also agree, I've long been a proponent of mixing in the classic townhomes: brownstones,victorian,italianate, etc. It gives a city a wonderful vibrancy and a feeling of layers. I love a beautiful tower, but the great classics should be constructed also,(authentic,not vaguely reminiscent or faux looking.)

jmonkey · #**2155** Posted **Aug 25, 2007, 5:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by SLC Projects

It's began people!!!
A few weeks ago I was starting to think this day would never come.

^^Just what you said, Projects!! I am speechless.

delts145 · #**2156** Posted **Aug 26, 2007, 1:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by Future Mayor

I have thought about the brownstones for years now. I would love to see a few areas of the city redeveloped with brownstones and or row houses. I have a development bouncing around in my head for Salt Lake that includes some brownstone and or row houses that have a classic brownstone look to them.

Seriously, how much more difficult would it be to build something like this with infinately more character?

James C. Massey/Romantic in color and readily carved, brownstone was the fad facing for Italianate-style row houses of the late 19th century—especially in New York City, where the ubiquitous buildings are known as brownstones.

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Sight-Seer · #**2157** Posted **Aug 26, 2007, 1:38 PM**

The picture looks nice, lots of detail that modern architecture lacks. It could probably be done with modern materials, but they'd have to be careful or it would end up looking too "flat". Land in downtown SL for such low-density housing would be extremely expensive, but there are people who would pay it if the development were done right. It would also have to be on a large scale, at least a block. So what we need is a developer to do it. Isn't there something a little like this in the upper Avenues?

T-Mac · #**2158** Posted **Aug 27, 2007, 4:36 PM**

Here's some new photos from Sunday.

Kirtland Condos:

Church History Building:

Gateway Building:

Marmalade:

Also, there is still no activity at the Broadway Park Lofts site. Hopefully something will start soon.

Utaaah! · #**2159** Posted **Aug 27, 2007, 4:51 PM**

Thanks for the pics, T-Mac! I thought the church library was going to be taller -- like 5 stories. Maybe two of those are underground.

T-Mac · #**2160** Posted **Aug 27, 2007, 4:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by Utaaah!

Thanks for the pics, T-Mac! I thought the church library was going to be taller -- like 5 stories. Maybe two of those are underground.

It will be 5 stories tall. In looking at the rendering from the downtownrising website it looks like there is 4 stories above ground and 1 below. It looks like the last level will be setback from these steel beams near the road.