Salt Lake City: Official Development News Thread - Part 5

[Blah_Amazing]

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

Address: 74 South 600 West

The Huxley has filed for a Design Review. There appears to be minor changes to exterior (less windows on south side, overhang on north side, brick color change, sign moved, etc), the building has been reduced by 1 floor, and has lost 40 residential units.

Project basics: 7 floors. 218 residential units. 0.53 acres. Replacing dilapidated houses. Parking ratio of 0.77:1 (approx. 168 stalls). No ground-level retail, just "storefront windows."

Project Description:

Beehive Spuds Partners is looking to develop The Huxley Apartments on 600 W. 100 S. Salt Lake City, Utah. This property is comprised of five parcels in a rundown neighborhood west of the Gateway. Three of the parcels have very old dilapidated homes; another parcel has an old concrete masonry block building that is currently vacant. We intend to demolish these structures. There is one other house on 600 W, nearest to 100 South, that is not included in the project. This home and property are owned by the SLC RDA. We have contacted the RDA and they plan to demolish this house and rebuild South Temple. This means that eventually, our building will extend the length of the block facing East along 600 West between South Temple and 100 South.

We propose to construct a 218-unit multifamily housing project with elevator service on this property. It will be 7 stories total: 5-stories of housing units framed atop a two-story concrete parking structure. The second level of the building will also include housing units. The first level of parking will be at the same level of the existing sidewalk. The building will have storefront windows along the street face to enhance the street level and engage pedestrians. The main entrance will be at the level of the existing sidewalk, with the leasing office at the second level. The proposed parking ratio is approximately .77 cars per unit. The project will have 1 bedroom, 2 bedroom, and studio apartments to provide housing options to a broad spectrum of the market and encourage diversity in our tenants.

The housing units will include high-end finishes, tall ceilings, custom cabinets and countertops, and large windows for natural lighting. Many units will have either an exterior balcony or a juliette-style balcony off of the main living space. Project amenities may include an outdoor swimming pool, hot tub, outdoor courtyard, common lounge/clubhouse, fitness room, yoga/pilates studio, study areas, valet trash and bike lockers.

New Rendering

Old rendering:

Site Plan


Landscape Plan

[Blah_Amazing]

I honestly really don't care for The Huxley at all. Yes, it's better than crumbling vacant houses, but it is not to quality that it should be.
Basically every change they have made to the design from their initial filing to now made the project worse.

I am very concerned that this entire section of downtown isn't getting any ground level retail. There has to be enough demand with so many units planned in the area for enough space to put at the very least a Subway or a Starbucks or something. Seriously!? They are basically putting up some large reflective windows in front of their parking garage and calling that street engagement!?

All of you know I am very pro-development, but the city REALLY needs to put their foot down on this. There are tons of developers who want to be in Salt Lake now, with a growing number starting to put forward much higher quality projects than this. Salt Lake is in a position now where it can AND SHOULD start demanding better quality buildings from ALL developers.

[Atlas]

Thanks for the photo, allh. Hopefully Moda Luxe starts moving soon. It's really one of the better apartment developments in the city.

And the Huxley looks awful. I agree with your comments, Blah.

[felixg]

Blah for mayor 2024!

[i-215]

Originally Posted by Blah_Amazing

They are basically putting up some large reflective windows in front of their parking garage and calling that street engagement!

It's not.

[bob rulz]

I think The Huxley looks better than it did in previous renderings, but I completely agree with everything else. I live in this neighborhood and while it's nice to be close to Gateway, the apartments going up are in danger of creating a really boring neighborhood. The GMU zone needs to be updated ASAP, but I fear that all of the vacant lots will be developed with 5+1 boxes with no street engagement before that can happen. I'm still salty about the old In the Venue building on 200 S and 600 W getting torn down.

[rockies]

Not sure if this has been mentioned here before but I found a survey asking for public opinion on redesigning pioneer park that opened a few days ago if anyone is interested. Construction in 2022-23

[Blah_Amazing]

Some demolition permits have again been filed, listed as "Pre-Demolition" (whatever that means), for the properties being replaced by the somewhat controversial Kozo House development.

625-627 W 200 N Pre-Demo

169 N 600 W

613 W 200 N Pre-Demo

157 N 600 W

633-635 W 200 N Pre-Demo

[Orlando]

Originally Posted by bob rulz

I think The Huxley looks better than it did in previous renderings, but I completely agree with everything else. I live in this neighborhood and while it's nice to be close to Gateway, the apartments going up are in danger of creating a really boring neighborhood. The GMU zone needs to be updated ASAP, but I fear that all of the vacant lots will be developed with 5+1 boxes with no street engagement before that can happen. I'm still salty about the old In the Venue building on 200 S and 600 W getting torn down.

The City needs to demand better street engagement. That is awful, and will not encourage a vibrant mixed-use neighborhood.

[Reeder113]

Originally Posted by Blah_Amazing

New Rendering

Old rendering:

The old rendering looks better. There's a lot more windows. Neither of them look impressive, though.

[locolife]

Was in SLC recently and snagged a photo of the skyline from the Bonneville Shoreline trail, from the photos I've seen I don't think this perspective gets a lot of visibility but I like it and thought I'd share on here.

[Ironweed]

Nice photo.

The C.O.B. is a disaster.... (It IS an ugly building. {My opinion})

95 South State and 111 Main have positively made an impact in the Skyline.

Scaling down projects is endemic of Utah. To me it makes no sense as the supply can't keep up with demand. Must have something to do with costs. Inflation is rampant right now.

[ajiuO]

Originally Posted by rockies

Not sure if this has been mentioned here before but I found a survey asking for public opinion on redesigning pioneer park that opened a few days ago if anyone is interested. Construction in 2022-23

Didn’t they just redesign that park like 2 years ago? I doubt that any redesign is going to make the park any more desirable unless they actually kick out the homeless crackheads that continuously loiter the park.

[ajiuO]

I’m glad to finally see a few things happening on North Temple. They are currently tearing down that burnt out motel that has been sitting there for a while. Arctic Circle was demolished and construction has begone there. They also tore down the Panda Buffet and a lot of the houses behind there. It looks like that run down Mexican restaurant that used to be Taco Time is still there. Does anyone know if that is supposed to be demolished as well? I really hope they are not planning on leaving that there and building a brand new apartment building around it. It seems like in the renderings it went all the way to the corner. But the place seems to still be doing business and they’ve started laying sewer pipes for the new apartment building already. Hopefully the old burnt out Apollo Burger and Dimond Lils get demoed soon.


The Arctic Circle homeless camp moved across the street and started busting out windows in a lot of the business over there, so there are a lot of open business with boarded up windows. It looks like they are staring to build fences around some of the landscaped areas now… and most of the homeless people have been cleared out. They’ve also been cleared out of the I215 underpass.

[delts145]

AjiuO, remind me again what project is being built on the Artic Circle site?

[mattreedah]

Originally Posted by ajiuO

I’m glad to finally see a few things happening on North Temple. They are currently tearing down that burnt out motel that has been sitting there for a while. Arctic Circle was demolished and construction has begone there.

Before it was an Arctic Circle that area was single family housing. My grandparents lived in that very spot in the 50's.

[delts145]

More of this please.

https://www.kier.org/our-work/multi-...ce-apartments/

[BretUtah]

Took a couple of pics on a stroll the other day. Does anyone know what they are doing at the old Olive Garden downtown? All the windows are boarded up.


Block 67




The Convention Hotel is getting a lot of new convention space

[allh]

Just saw Dixon Place in person, the brick facade looks super authentic and sleek. Definitely one of the better looking residentials in the city

[Blah_Amazing]

What I like about Dixon Place is that it shows people aren’t even asking developers to try very hard. Just meet the relatively basic standards Dixon has set or (hopefully) try to exceed them.