Salt Lake City: Official Development News Thread - Part 4

[Comrade]

I didn't go to West. I went to Highland. But I take pride in attending a Salt Lake Public School.

[RC14]

Originally Posted by airhero

Hardware Station

I lived at Citifront for 1 year. I hated it. Did not really like the neighborhood but this development would make me give it another chance. The only thing that would make me like it more is if the locations of the West Village and the office building where switched and there was a bridge between the TRAX station and the West Village. My urban dream is to live somewhere where I can take the elevator down to the train station. That is my idea of a true Transit Oriented Development.

[Comrade]

Is it really necessary to quote all those pictures when responding to a post? It's been done twice now and kinda clutters things. It's been posted once, when replying, maybe just cut out the pictures?

[Orlando]

Good point. You're right. Not necessary to reply with all the images. It's just a bit of laziness. I edited my reply.

[delts145]

I'm set at twenty posts per page. Once per page is more than fine with me. Of course, I love pictures, as does most of the forum.

[airhero]

Well here come more pictures. New pictures that I took today of some projects going up. I tried to limit one picture for project but I did two for a few of them. And as always, my pictures are terrible so brace yourselves.

PAC:


~430 S 900 E (I can't remember the name):

Bonneville Apartments (~250 S 500 E):


Liberty Crest (~150 S 200 E):




Paragon Station (200 S 300 W):




Garbett Homes Pioneer Park (~350 S 400 W):


Alta Gateway (100 S 500 W):


400 West Apartments (300 N 400 W):

From the West:

[scottharding]

Great update! I, for one, won't complain about how many pictures you post!

[bflatflat9]

Great post airhero, thanks. You're pics are fine.
Lots goin on around town, diggin it.
One thing tho', almost no matter how dense we develop, it won't really feel like it because of the large blocks and streets (future rant).
I almost forgot about the Bonneville apts., and Liberty Crest is gonna be awesome if it's anything like the renderings.
Thanks again.

[ctobsl]

The issue was not about posting photos, all the photos that get posted are great visuals and help to break up the solid posting of text. The issue was about posting "Quotes" from other forum members who had photos in their post. The same photos were / are being re-posted multiple times. That is what is creating the clutter. As far as the visuals go, keep posting them. Great photo update airhero!

[Orlando]

Great update!

[ThePusherMan]

Is anyone else weirdly excited to see the E S. D part of the signage for the Performing Arts Center? Seems like a weird choice to display just three letters of the George S. Dolores Eccles but it has been that way for a few weeks now.

[jedikermit]

Airhero, thanks for the pics. Even as someone who lives here and is downtown all the time, I forget about some of the projects, like the Paragon and Pioneer Park developments. Thanks for the reminder.

[Future Mayor]

Count me in as one of those interested in one of the Hardware Station Brownstones, I love Brownstones. I really like the overall diversity in the design with Hardware Station, different heights, varying finishes and varying designs for each building, even when the buildings are actually connected.

Yes Bflat the large blocks can be a problem, but I think this development does a good job in breaking the block up, essentially into four, or three if you count only streets as breaking up the blocks. The nice thing about this, that Alta Gateway got wrong, is it won't create a giant wall along the street, because it will have breaks for E/W and N/S access.

Hardware Station, plus 400 West Apartments with direct access via 400 W and 490/500 W, plus Alta Gateway will have a huge positive impact on The Gateway, it will more than double The Gateway area population. Someone quoted 1,000 possible new residents just from Hardware Station. I think we all agree that The Gateway should focus on neighborhood retail (drug store, grocery store, coffee shop, etc) and Entertainment (bars, bowling, etc) and as was mentioned I too think that a drug store will be first, and while I think a grocery store is critical I don't think that will arrive until Station Center start to be occupied.

I've suggested in the past that The Gateway punch an access from the Olympic Plaza to 500 W., I think this is even more important now that 500 W will be continuing under the viaduct accessing Hardware Station and Front Runner platform.

I still think SLC is ready for a high end bowling alley, similar to Jupiter Bowl in Kimball Junction and I think The Gateway is a great location for that. This is my proposal for a cut through to 500 W, including a bowling alley and a grocery store, maybe in the short term use the western half the the area marked grocery and but the drug store in, facing 500 W.

I'm not as talented as many on here but here is my quick proposal.

[brankrom]

I really like the Hardware Station renders, but I'm not sure about the mural (nothing against the Beatles and the image is likely just a placeholder anyway) but it just seems forced and obtrusive and screams "Reagan Billboard: your ad here!". It just seems the building has nice lines, why distract and cover it up? I generally like murals but not this one.

[arkhitektor]

Originally Posted by ThePusherMan

Is anyone else weirdly excited to see the E S. D part of the signage for the Performing Arts Center? Seems like a weird choice to display just three letters of the George S. Dolores Eccles but it has been that way for a few weeks now.

Maybe the delay is because someone realized that they forgot to add the letters for the word 'AND' before they put up the 'D' for Dolores?

[ctobsl]

arkhitektor "Maybe the delay is because someone realized that they forgot to add the letters for the word 'AND' before they put up the 'D' for Dolores?"

^^^^^^^^
hahaha They sure did forget, great catch!

[ThePusherMan]

Haha. I noticed that too when I was typing it out. I'm just going to tell myself that it is an abstract art instillation.

[Future Mayor]

Here's a run down of recently completed, under construction of proposed multi-family residential in SLC, over 10 units. I'm going to use a conservative estimate of 1.25 people per unit.

Neighborhood
Depot District Units Residents
Hardware 409 511
Alta Gateway 277 346
400 West 497 621
Paragon 38 28
341 151 189
Total 1,372 1,715

East Downtown
Hardison 176 220
Bonneville 158 197
Liberty Crest 177 221
Seasons Blvd 92 115
Encore 189 236
508 38 48
Total 830 1,037

Trolley/University
9th East Lofts 68 85
Liberty Blvd 267 333
Total 335 418

Central 9th
Prana 21 26
Central 9th 43 54
Central 9th Lofts 151 189
Total 215 269

Ball Park
Taylor Gardens 112 140
Enclave 251 314
Total 363 454

Sugarhouse
Sugarmont 433 541
Legacy Village (SH) 268 335
Total 701 876

Central Business District
The Regent Hotel 26 33
The Void 10 13
State St Plaza 180 225
Total 216 271

Others
Sego 28 28 35
Brickyard 208 260
616 273 341
Marmalade 12 16
West Station 145 181
9th & 9th 28 35
Total 694 868

Total 4,726 5,908

While I'm sure I'm missing a couple(let me know which ones), that is some serious residential growth that is occurring in our fair city. The nice thing about it is that it's occurring throughout multiple neighborhoods.

[scottharding]

Very nice, Future Mayor. I was just wondering about these numbers on my drive this morning. Does your East Downtown list include the lofts that are finally going up on 9th east next to the Office Max there? I can't remember the name of it, so I don't know.

And of course, there's downtown center, where the Regent Hotel/residences, the VOID hotel/residences, and the State Street Plaza (if we're still counting it).

[Makid]

Looking at the numbers, it is possible that SLC could very well have a population between 200K and 205K by the 2020 census.

The best part though is that the larger the population, the more amenities nearby which will attract additional people to the city and a more urban lifestyle.