Salt Lake City: Official Development News Thread - Part 5

[Always Sunny in SLC]

Originally Posted by rockies

who wants to take one for the team and chain themselves to the Carlton?

I got you, but I don’t work for free. I accept payment in the form of Diet Dr Pepper.

[msbutah]

Originally Posted by meman

Does anyone know what is going on with the Boston Building with all the scaffolding all the way up the entire building?

I hope they are not going to put some tacky cladding on this beautiful building!!!

They're doing maintenance/repairs on the exterior masonry.
From their permit: "Provide crack and spall repairs at brick masonry. Provide small spall repairs and replacement of all other damaged limestone cladding stones. Provide full mortar replacement at all existing limestone cladding. Provide minor patching repairs and replacement at limestone cladding, including cornices, friezes, and other decorative details. Provide selective tuckpointing at damaged brick masonry mortar. Provide structural repairs/upgrades at north elevation interior stairwell and elevator shaft walls (no changes anticipated at exterior for these repairs)."

[allh]

Originally Posted by msbutah

They're doing maintenance/repairs on the exterior masonry.
From their permit: "Provide crack and spall repairs at brick masonry. Provide small spall repairs and replacement of all other damaged limestone cladding stones. Provide full mortar replacement at all existing limestone cladding. Provide minor patching repairs and replacement at limestone cladding, including cornices, friezes, and other decorative details. Provide selective tuckpointing at damaged brick masonry mortar. Provide structural repairs/upgrades at north elevation interior stairwell and elevator shaft walls (no changes anticipated at exterior for these repairs)."

Feels like they've been working on it for over a year now.

[bob rulz]

Originally Posted by meman

Does anyone know what is going on with the Boston Building with all the scaffolding all the way up the entire building?

I hope they are not going to put some tacky cladding on this beautiful building!!!

I highly doubt they would be allowed to ruin it with new cladding. Pretty sure it's a local (and national) historic building.

[Marvland]

Originally Posted by allh

Feels like they've been working on it for over a year now.

They are repairing earthquake damage.

[Comrade]

Originally Posted by meman

Does anyone know what is going on with the Boston Building with all the scaffolding all the way up the entire building?

I hope they are not going to put some tacky cladding on this beautiful building!!!

They're tearing it down to build a four-story beige condo building.

[tchild2]

Originally Posted by Comrade

They're tearing it down to build a four-story beige condo building.

You forgot to include "stucco" in that description.

[Boz]

Beige stucco.

[Blah_Amazing]

Originally Posted by Boz

Beige stucco.

I mean, they could go with the more ‘modern’ and ‘relatable’ gray stucco instead. That’s a real possibility. Then they could say it ‘references’ the old stone architecture.

[ajiuO]

I’m completely against this project.. That land should be used for shopping and restaurants. Or at the very least mixed use. The smiths in the area is already Inadequate for the area population. Continually adding more population to the area without more shopping and restaurants accommodations just makes the situation worse. Especially with all the new residential going in on North Temple. The city really needs to work with Kroger to get them to rebuild Smiths Before adding more population to the area. They should make it a priority as a part of the seventh N. redevelopment. I personally think this land should be used for a couple of restaurants or something. The west side of Salt Lake doesn’t really have any sit down restaurant Accommodations comparable to what most other areas have. I hope the city says no To rezoning this land.

Originally Posted by Blah_Amazing

https://citizenportal.slcgov.com/Cit...howInspection=

A new Townhouse project has filed a design review with the city in the Rose Park Neighborhood near the Jordan River.

750 North Redwood Road

Project Summary:
The project will be new construction on an currently empty lot with 82 single family attached townhomes. The total site is 2.27 acres and will have a density of 36.1 units / acre.

The project consists of 12 separate wood frame buildings. The exterior materials are brick veneer, cementious siding and stucco. In total there are eighty-two units consisting of 2 different types of units - Unit type 1 (41): 4 bedroom , 2.5 bath with 1,732 square feet of conditioned space. Unit type 2(29): 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath units with 1,432 square feet of conditioned space. Both units 1 and 2 each will have a covered second level balcony. Unit type 3(12): 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath units with 1,469 square feet of conditioned space.

The primary access to the units will be sidewalks from N Redwood Rd and the parking is accessed from N. Redwood Rd as well.

Project Rendering


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Project Rendering

Additional Renderings:

Site Map


Vicinity Map


Current Site Conditions

Elevations:

[bob rulz]

Originally Posted by ajiuO

I’m completely against this project.. That land should be used for shopping and restaurants. Or at the very least mixed use. The smiths in the area is already Inadequate for the area population.

You realize there's a grocery store right across the street from here, right?

I agree the west side needs more shopping and restaurant options, but it's also a pretty low-density area at the moment. That will come with higher density.

[rockies]

Originally Posted by ajiuO

I’m completely against this project.. That land should be used for shopping and restaurants. Or at the very least mixed use. The smiths in the area is already Inadequate for the area population.

Maybe you are thinking of the wrong project...? There's a grocery store across the street and another one within walking distance of this project. As well as a bunch of small, local Mexican restaurants nearby. There are other projects on the West side, however, that are in areas with literally no grocery stores but this is not one of them...

I think this is a great spot for townhouses and hopefully we see more. Why should single-family homes have exclusive access to the Jordan River, nearby transit, and the massive Riverside park? It's certainly better than another strip mall if that's what you're advocating for.

[RC14]

Originally Posted by Comrade

They're tearing it down to build a four-story beige condo building.

I will chain myself to the Boston building if this is their plan.

[ajiuO]

Originally Posted by bob rulz

You realize there's a grocery store right across the street from here, right?

I agree the west side needs more shopping and restaurant options, but it's also a pretty low-density area at the moment. That will come with higher density.

Smiths is a normal mainstream grocery store. Luckys is like a discount store kind of like what Food 4 Less used to be and it’s not a very nice store. I would be all for Albertsons tearing that crap down and building a nice new full service Albertsons there. That would probably be a better location then smiths and it would be nice to have the Albertsons brand name back, even though they do own lucky. Smiths is the only normal main stream grocery store that serves the whole west side. The store is so undersized that they can’t even have a normal full service butcher. There really isn’t an excuse for Kroger letting that store go so long with out expanding. When they built it there was also a Safeway and other small stores on 300W… as those stores disappeared over time it put more demand on that smiths. Then the Albertsons on north Temple closed adding even more demand… sure there is a rancho market, but it’s not a main stream or even a very nice store. The west side needs a nice new grocery store… but Kroger and Harmon’s don’t care… cuz it’s the west side. Maybe they will care in 5 years when it’s a lot more gentrified.

The density of the area is going to increase dramatically over the next few years, and they are not really planning for any Commercial accommodations witch are already lacking.

[delts145]

Anyone noticed progress on Moda Luxe lately?

[ThePusherMan]

Bring me a donut! https://www.fastcompany.com/90648644...f-architecture

[UT_Presto]

Originally Posted by delts145

Anyone noticed progress on Moda Luxe lately?

Some conduit and such arrived on site a few weeks ago and has just been sitting in the dirt, untouched since then. Besides that nothing has happened in several months.

[delts145]

^^^
Hmm...Hopefully, it's just indicative of supply hiccups and not a financing issue.

[Blah_Amazing]

https://app.crowdstreet.com/invexp/p...-lake-crossing

Salt Development's Salt Lake Crossing Apartment project has been actively seeking investors.

[Atlas]

Where is that going to be? Hardware District? Hopefully there's some retail involved. And that looks like a pretty hefty parking garage.

Edit: they have some more renderings on their website.