SALT LAKE CITY | Development Thread

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Salt Lake City & MSA/CSA Rundown

Greater Salt Lake City's Metro quality of life urban vistas such as this are drawing thousands of tech talent to the region.

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The Wall Street Journal - Justin Baer for the Wall Street Journal - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bre...s_pos11&page=1

The Breakout Cities on the Forefront of America’s Economic Recovery - The Wasatch Front's Southern Metro of Provo

...A burgeoning tech industry coupled with the desire to escape crowded cities helped add jobs and residents to Provo in the past year.

The city, on the western edge of the Rockies and a 45-minute drive south of Salt Lake City, has long been a destination for young professionals looking to leave the coasts for a less-expensive place to live. The mountains and nearby national and state parks became even more appealing during the pandemic, and the ability to work remotely made it an easy location for high-tech workers and others.

Facebook and other companies have offices along central Utah’s tech corridor, known as “Silicon Slopes.” Software pioneers Novell Inc. and WordPerfect were founded there, and their success encouraged entrepreneurs to join them.

Omniture Inc., a web-analytics firm based in nearby Orem, was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2009. Provo’s Qualtrics, another enterprise-software company co-founded by a student at Brigham Young University, one of the universities in town, was acquired by SAP SE a decade later. That BYU graduate, Ryan Smith, recently agreed to buy a majority stake in the Utah Jazz basketball team, based in Salt Lake City.

Provo-area software firm Fishbowl Solutions LLC has benefited from the talent emerging from the region’s large universities and a tech-forward business community. Fishbowl added 15 employees last year, when it had the biggest revenue gain in its 20-year history. Its workforce now totals 195.

But the city has seen a shortage of workers. “There’s a lot of output of tech professionals from the two universities nearby, but even with that, it’s been a struggle to find enough development staff,” said John David King, Fishbowl’s chief executive. “We’ve done quite a bit of hiring, and some of those have been from out of state.”


The move to remote work made it possible for them to bring in staff who live elsewhere, something the company wouldn’t have considered before the pandemic, Mr. King said.

The city has been able to attract newcomers with its growing businesses and outdoor amenities. The area’s labor force has grown 37% in the past decade, compared with a 5% gain for the U.S.

Provo’s population overall has expanded by more than 20% in the past decade. There are only 120 residents per square mile in the broader Provo metro area—a third the density of Portland, and one-fourth of Austin’s, according to Moody’s Analytics—and there is surrounding land for the city to expand. But Provo’s urban center is unmistakably busier.

Utah had seen the population boom coming. The state consistently ranks first in the nation in household size, and Provo itself has an average age of 25, one of the youngest of any large U.S. city, according to census data.

In the late 1990s, nonprofit group Envision Utah was formed to develop ideas to handle growth in areas including housing, schools, air quality and traffic.

Population in Utah County, where Provo is located, is expected to double by 2050, said Ari Bruening, Envision Utah’s chief executive. The group surveyed thousands of residents about their needs and concerns and unveiled its findings last fall, he said, in what could be guidance for policy makers. The report pointed out the need for smaller residential properties, better roads and public transportation, and additional economic centers accessible by foot...

Originally Posted by Atlas

It appears the architect for the Sundial Tower is Pickard Chilton. Another out-of-state team, Orlando.

Came across another nice SLC cityscape, on the Mya website. The Worthington tower is going to dominate this view.

Upcoming Worthington Tower

Originally Posted by Atlas

Building Salt Lake has the scoop on the Tavernacle Tower,
which they are calling the Worthington Tower (unofficial name). 31 stories and 335 ft.

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Originally Posted by locolife

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Update, Downtown West - The Greenprint Gateway Project

Originally Posted by Blah_Amazing

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

592 W 200 S

Demo permits have been filed to make way for the 6 floor 150 residential unit Greenprint Gateway Apartments.

Taylor Anderson Reporting @ BuildingSaltLake.com

The Greenprint Gateway would bring 150 micro and studio apartments for rent at the northeast corner of 200 S. 600 W. in Salt Lake City’s Depot District. Rendering courtesy of Salt Lake City Planning Division.
150 new micro and studio apartments
The Greenprint Gateway would bring a new six-story building with 150 micro and studio apartments for rent on the northeast corner of 200 S. + 600 W.

It would include ground-floor retail or office space and would be oriented toward 200 South.

It would replace a parking lot and car repair shop.

That’s a density of 254 units per acre within a very short walk of a TRAX and FrontRunner station. (The project would include 38 parking stalls, 19 surface and accessed off 600 West and 19 within the podium structure.)

“Given its proximity to the Old Greek Town Trax Station and the Gateway commercial development, we believe that this design will not only meet the City’s vision for this district but will also enhance the area by adding a walkable, transit-oriented, multi-family option for City residents,” the developer wrote...

https://www.slc.gov/planning/wp-cont...Greenprint.jpg

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Downtown Updates - Brinshore Developments - 255 South State

Originally Posted by Marvland

A little teaser: Just toured the Brinshore site. That project is going to be a very special tenant mix for Food and Bev. Just an unbelievable mix of local and national talent. I'll feed more info when the time is right. But I'm STOKED.

Brinshore Development of Chicago will have two attractive projects coming up for Salt Lake City in 2020 & 2021. The first to commence will be Downtown's 255 S. State and the second along the North Temple light-rail line on the
western perimeter of downtown.

The Brinshore Project - 255 South State

Copy By Luke Garrott @ BuildingSaltLake.com Senior representatives from Chicago-based Brinshore Development, one of the largest affordable housing developers in the country, according to Principal
David Brint, has briefed the Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency (RDA) Board these past months...Brinshore’s mixed affordable and market-rate project aims to align with the goals of a 2018 RFQ from the RDA. Among those goals are
providing a significant number of “deeply affordable” units, promoting an active streetscape, establishing a public mid-block walkway, and preserving and activating the historic Cramer House on Floral Street...Instead of proposing a single
building of large scale, Brinshore’s architect, KTGY, has designed two structures. The south building will be eight floors containing 73 units and the north structure will rise to 13 stories with 117 units. 152 of the 190 total units will be
affordable, ranging from 20%-80% of AMI, with 38 units at market rate. The mix will be 122 one-bedroom, 52 two-bedroom, 13 three- and four-bedroom, with three at-grade artist live-work spaces.

On street level, the project will offer 23,000 sq. ft. of commercial space (down from 40,000 in previous plans), some of which will be dedicated to community and education purposes. The developer plans to build one level of below-grade
parking, offering 100 stalls. Eighteen surface parking spaces will be reserved for retail clients...Between the buildings will be a public “paseo.” It will run from Floral Street (an alley at about 125 East that’s accessible only from 200 South)
to State Street and align with Gallivan Avenue on the west side of State.

Pedestrians will be able to pass all the way from Edison Street (145 East) to State thanks to an existing east-west alley and the paseo.

Newly released renderings Brinshore's State Street Project











January 26th



March 4th

Photo By Atlas


Luke Garrott, BuildingSaltLake.com: ...Construction began last week on 255 South State.

City officials and developers will be delivering on a mixed-use, 80% affordable, two-tower project that incorporates significant public plazas and a midblock “paseo” between State Street and Edison (145 E). It will restore and repurpose a
historic house into a restaurant as part of the development’s 25,000 sf of retail space. The taller of the two towers (eight and 12 stories) will use an innovative construction technique, combining light structural steel with 10 levels of
load-bearing factory-panelized walls called the “Infinity System.”

The project’s 190 units will range from studios to 4-bdrms. 168 of those are federal tax credit units, serving people who make between 20-80% of AMI.

Construction is expected to take 24 months, aiming at a Spring 2023 opening. Here are some current photos of the site:

March 18th








Photos By Luke Garrott @ BuildingSaltLake.com



April 29th

Photo By Atlas



May 6th

Photo By RC14



May 14th

Tower crane at Brineshore site:



Photos By RC14

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Downtown Update - Hyatt Regency, Convention Center Hotel - January 7th thru June 12th







Construction on the hotel started Jan. 13 and the grand opening is scheduled for October 2022.

Jason Lee for the Deseret News...Salt Lake County officials, in conjunction with Atlanta-based real estate developer Portman Holdings, broke ground Friday on the building, which the Hyatt Hotels Corp.
will manage and operate as the new Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City. The new hotel will be located at the corner of 200 South and West Temple in downtown Salt Lake City, adjacent to the Salt Palace Convention Center.

Scheduled to open in October 2022, the $377-million project will be partially financed through the Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy program, which allows for specialty financing to enable green energy design and implementation,
a news release stated. The 700-plus room hotel will be among the first “ground-up” developments to utilize the program in the Beehive State...

...“It gives us another layer of sophistication when it comes to attracting bigger and better shows to the state of Utah that helps the entire area. Utah’s going to take a better step in terms of prominence on the national stage because of a
facility like this,” he said. “People that hadn’t considered the state before are now going to say, ‘I need to look at Utah, I need to be in Utah for these conventions.’ That’s what kind of prominence this new center is going to give us.”

The 686,784-square-foot, 26-story hotel will include 700 guest rooms and 60,000 square feet of meeting space, as well as two separate restaurants on the first and sixth floors and a lobby bar. The sixth-floor restaurant will sit adjacent to
an outdoor area with a swimming pool, as well as a 7,500-square-foot outdoor terrace for events and other activities.

The project will be directly connected to the Salt Palace Convention Center to provide convenience for convention attendees, Baisiwala said...

...“This hotel is built directly into the convention center, which makes it exceptionally easy for the convention attendees to go in and out from their hotel rooms into the convention center,” he said. “Perhaps more importantly, it has a lot
of suites — big rooms where VIPs can be housed. And it also has a lot of meeting space which augments the number of meeting rooms of the Salt Palace.”

Salt Lake City's Salt Palace Convention Center. Convention Center Hotel to rise at the far south end pictured here.

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Note the Circular Plaza at the bottom, which was the former appearance of the plaza that has now become the construction zone of the new Convention Center Hotel

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January 7th

Photo By Luke Garrott @ BuildingSaltLake.com Convention center hotel site, orange, center. The roof of the Salt Palace Convention Center left-center.

Salt Lake City convention hotel on track for fall 2022 opening

Estimated to cost $377-plus million, Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City is scheduled to be completed and hosting its first guests in the fall of 2022

Janurary 12th - Henry S. Johnson for Global Travel Industry News - https://eturbonews.com/2552484/salt-...-2022-opening/

One year after its groundbreaking ceremony, Salt Lake’s convention hotel — the Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City — is on schedule for completion in October 2022.

The tower concrete construction is completed through level three and the podium steel erection begins later this month. Through the first quarter of 2021, the exterior façade installation will begin, escalators on meeting room levels will be hoisted into place and the vertical construction is slated to continue to progress with topping out of the project to come at the end of this year.

“Seeing the Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City taking shape is both exciting and promising for Salt Lake’s meeting and convention future and the recovery of our visitor economy from the devastating effects of COVID-19,” said Kaitlin Eskelson, president & CEO of Visit Salt Lake.

“Our sales team will soon have everything meeting professionals want and they’re working hard to fill this new property and the many others throughout our community to ensure the long-term success of Salt Lake’s hospitality community.”

January 30th

Photo By tchild2

Originally Posted by Pencil

Downtown - Latest Hyatt Regency Convention Center Hotel Progress Videos

February 5th

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February 22nd




Photos By Atlas



March 3rd

Originally Posted by Atlas

First signs of glass on the CCH!

Source - Posted By Atlas


March 26th




Source (and more photos) - Posted By Atlas



April 25th

Originally Posted by RC14

Hyatt Regency, taken under an hour ago:

Photos By RC14



April 25th


Photos By Atlas



June 12th

CCH from my patio


CCH crains got taller over the weekend


CCH at night

Photos By BretUtah

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Downtown West - Power Station TOD Apartments

Originally Posted by Blah_Amazing

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

Address: 1528 W North Temple

Project Description:

Demolition to make way for the two-building, 5 floors, and 285 residential unit Power Station TOD Apartments.

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Utah's red hot housing market continues at record-breaking pace

By: Jeff Tavss - for FOX 13 News - https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-...breaking-april

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's sizzling housing market showed no signs of cooling in updated data released last week.

READ: There are more real estate agents than homes for sale right now

Closed home sales were up 24% in the April Housing Report published by the Utah Association of Realtors. On top of that, the 4,845 home sales in April were a record for the month.

"We are getting a record number of sales as homes go under contract not long after they are listed, which is keeping inventory at near record lows as demand continues to outpace supply," said Deanna Devey, Director of Communications for the Utah Association of Realtors.

The median sales price of a Utah home in April 2021 was $425,000, an increase of 26.8% from the same time in 2020, while inventory at the end of the month was down just over 64% compared to last April.

However, the hot sales market leaves the area with less than one month's supply of homes.

"Utah needs more housing inventory, particularly for starter homes, to help keep housing in reach for Utah families," said Devey.

According to the organization, sellers are unloading their homes for an average of 103% of their asking asking price, which is a record dating back to 2006.

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Downtown Update, Northwest Perimeter - TAG Townhomes

Originally Posted by Blah_Amazing

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

Address: 765 N 400 W

TAG has filed Planned Development documents for a 28 unit townhouse community.


Map


Site Plan


Buildings A & C Elevations


Building B Elevations

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Central Metro/East - Park City - Three Kings Project - Updating Environmental Essentials & Design Aesthetics.

Renderings of the new Three Kings Water Treatment Plant


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https://www.parkcity.org/departments...reatment-plant

June construction update

https://www.parkcity.org/departments...reatment-plant

Former water treatment facility before demolition

The Park City water-treatment plant just off Three Kings Drive was well known for an architectural feature resembling a water tower. The treatment plant,
including the architectural feature, was demolished as City Hall prepared to build a new treatment plant at the same location. Photo by Tanzi Propst/Park Record

Jay Hamburger Reporting for the Park Record - In the early 1990s, amid Park City’s great population boom, leaders were attempting to ensure municipal services kept up with the growth. The ability to provide water suitable for drinking was crucial to the growth, but it was already established by then that one of the important water sources, the Spiro Tunnel on the edge of Thaynes Canyon, produced water with contaminants like arsenic, thallium, iron and manganese. City Hall officials of that era opted to tap the Spiro Tunnel, dating to the silver-mining era, and needed to blend and then treat the water before it was put into the system. Park City in 1993 debuted the water-treatment plant for the Spiro Tunnel. On the exterior, it was an architectural outlier in the neighborhood. On the interior, the pipes and instruments made it one of the municipality’s unique buildings...

Former Treatment Facility pre-demolition. A new treatment plant is being built at the same location. The construction commenced after the Sundance Film Festival. The expected completion date is in early 2023.

“For its time, it was very unique architecturally,” said Michelle DeHaan, City Hall’s water quality and treatment manager and a key staffer in the efforts to build the new treatment plant.

The Spiro Tunnel treatment plant served a critical purpose in the growth era. The contaminant levels in the water from the tunnel needed to be lowered before the water was put into the system. The early strategy was to blend the water from Spiro Tunnel with water from another source, reducing the contaminant concentrations. Officials eventually wanted to use more water from the Spiro Tunnel, though, and chose to treat the water from that source instead of tapping the strategy of blending on a long-term basis.

The opening of the treatment plant in 1993 assisted as Park City addressed the contaminants. The reduction of arsenic in the drinking water was especially notable since it carries such negative associations for its effects on people and wildlife.

The arsenic level in the water from the Spiro Tunnel in 1993 was 60 parts per billion, according to the municipal government. The drinking-water standard of that era was 50 parts per billion of arsenic and it was reduced over time to 10 parts per billion. The Spiro Tunnel water treatment plant at the time of its closure reduced the figure to 2 parts per billion. The treatment plant reduced the arsenic levels with a filter that DeHaan describes as a sand-like substance with a magnesium base.

“The city was a real pioneer at that time,” DeHaan said, calling the plant a “huge success.”

The new treatment plant is one of the projects in an approximately $100 million set of upgrades to the waterworks system. The work will be funded through a long-term increase to water rates of approximately 3% annually.

It will treat drinking water for arsenic, lead, antimony and thallium. It will treat water to be released into streams for cadmium, mercury, zinc and the four others. The stream-release standards are more stringent than those regulating drinking water.

The plant will treat all the water from the Judge Tunnel and up to 100% of the Spiro Tunnel water. According to the municipal government, the Spiro Tunnel plant that will be demolished treated 1,000 gallons of water per minute exclusively from that tunnel while the new one will have a 5,000-gallon-per-minute capacity for water from the Judge Tunnel, the Spiro Tunnel and Thiriot Springs.

April 2021

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Update, Downtown West - The Depot District - CW Urban's "The Beverly"

CW Urban received approval by the Planning Commission this month to move forward on a 48-unit, market-rate condominium project named The Beverly.

Four buildings, each four stories, will barely reach the minimum height required by Gateway-Mixed Use zoning (45 feet). Like all proposed projects in this zone, the developer had to submit to a Conditional Building Site Design Review process...

Rendering for The Beverly, at 45 South 600 West, looking east. Image courtesy SLC public documents.


Future site of The Beverly at 45 South 600 West, to replace the three beige-colored buildings lower center. Photo by Luke Garrott.

...The city will require the builders to include public art and a mid-block walkway along the eastern edge of their property. Benches will be placed at the south end of the walkway as it terminates at 100 South, immediately east of Futsal 801. The north end of the walkway will terminate in Gateway’s western surface parking lot fence...

April 26, 2020 - Photos Update By StayingInformed

The Beverley sign on 600 W and about 75 S.


The Beverley site has some foundations down.



June 29, 2020 Update by Luke Garrott @ BuildingSaltLake.com

The Beverly by CW Urban, at 45 S 600 W, has 3 of 4 buildings framed out. Photos by Luke Garrott.






May 29, 2021

Photo By SLC PopPunk

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Downtown West - 300 West Rebuild

300 West is being rebuilt to repair aging pavement and create a safer, more accessible and welcoming street. When complete, the road will have a two-way bike lane on the west side, continuous sidewalk on each side of the road, new crosswalks, and medians at strategic locations along the roadway, as well as landscaped park strips with more trees. For more details visit www.300WestSLC.com.

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Downtown Update - 95 So. State - February thru June 2021


https://kutv.com/resources/media/dd4...?1556058476688


View of the 95 S. State Office Tower site on the left and the Liberty Sky Residential Tower site on the right. Background and rising above downtown to the Northeast is the Avenues District




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Rendering, looking south toward north face of 95 S. State Tower, mid-block Social Hall Avenue and Canopy structure on the left



February 22nd



Photos By Atlas

Updated and New Renderings Added

Originally Posted by Blah_Amazing

95 State has finally launched their website.
https://www.95stateslc.com/
I noticed the website included renderings, some I've definitely seen, but a few renderings were definitely new to me as well.


Looking South


Looking East


Floor Cross-Section


95 State Main Lobby


The Link. The design of the meeting house has changed slightly, with what appears to be additional slats than prior renderings.


Patio Area


Patio Area


The Link and City Creek


The Link - Lower Level


Main Lobby

The website also includes a brochure:

April 23rd

Originally Posted by Atlas

From the subreddit today:


Source: u/chaunceton on r/DevelopmentSLC

Maybe they were waiting on those white-painted beams to come in? From the webcam:

April 25th



April 28th - 95 State today, from City Creek:

Photos By Atlas



April 30th

Originally Posted by SLC PopPunk

My work is moving to full time remote so I went into the office to clean out my desk. Snapped a pic of what would have been the view from my desk.

Photo by SLC PopPunk



May 20th



Photos By Blah_Amazing



June 4th
Glass is being installed on the ground floor of 95 State:


Pic By RC14



June 12th

Photo By BretUtah

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Downtown Update - Liberty Sky


(Artist's rendition courtesy of Cowboy Properties) Cowboy Properties and Boyer Co. are looking to build a 24-story apartment building on the east side of State Street between
the Federal Building on 100 South and the Maverik headquarters building on 200 South. The $90 million project is being praised for its prospects of bringing more residents to downtown Salt Lake City.


February 22nd

Photo By Atlas


March 21st

Source

Originally Posted by Atlas

Looking Northwest, View of downtown from the 16th floor of Liberty Sky, presumably from today:

April 21st

Liberty Sky Foreground Right, 95 So. State Background

Photo By Orlando



May 21st

Photo By Blah_Amazing



May 25th

Photo By Atlas



June 2021


The roof of Liberty Sky is topped out

Photos By BretUtah

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Downtown Update, The West Quarter, Phase I & II

Originally Posted by Makid

Sounds like Phase 2 for The West Quarter, may be moving faster than originally thought.

From the original plan, I think they were looking to have RWP clearing out in early 2022. With it happening around May 2021, this could mean that the overall timing has sped up.

I do think it would be nice to have 3+ projects undergoing excavation at the same time. It is this that probably lead to the speed up of Phase 2. This will allow the current workers to shift from Phase 1 to Phase 2.

I do wonder how many towers we will see continue above the Phase 2 podium. Will we see all 3 towers, just the Residential and Hotel, or just the Residential. Pre-Covid, the plan was for the Residential and the Hotel to go up immediately and the Commercial tower to be added once demand was there. Does anyone know if this is still the plan or if we may see all 3 towers rise simultaneously?

Originally Posted by Atlas

Very exciting to see West Quarter Phase II going forward. Walking from Main Street along 200 S, Block 67 feels so impenetrable right now. It's really going to be a nice urban gateway to the Vivint Arena when it's done, not to mention it may have a massive impact on the skyline. Right now, SLC doesn't have any towers that are more than a block or so from Main Street...

By Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribunehttps://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/12/...city-approves/

Salt Lake City has approved a way to pump $15 million into building a huge subterranean parking garage for Block 67, an upcoming ambitious residential and hotel project on the western edge of the city’s downtown.

The agreement, backed Tuesday by the City Council in its role overseeing the city’s Redevelopment Agency (RDA), clears a major hurdle for what is to be known as The West Quarter, a 6.45-acre development bounded by
100 South and 200 South from 200 West to 300 West.

(Rendering by The Ritchie Group) A rendering of The Ritchie Group's proposed Block 67 development in Salt Lake City, as though looking north along 300 West...

Developers with Salt Lake City-based The Ritchie Group and Garn Development Co. in Layton plan to build more than 650 dwellings, two hotels, an office tower, retail shops, a tree-lined street cut through the block and an underground
parking garage with more than 1,200 stalls.


With its four towers and extensive amenities, to be built in two phases, The West Quarter project will push the center of the city’s urban core west, with more robust pedestrian connections between the existing downtown and The Gateway and
Vivint Smart Home Arena farther west.

“It really is a good project,” Councilman Charlie Luke said Tuesday. “It really is going to do a lot for the city and especially for that part of the city in terms of redevelopment."...

...Ryan Ritchie, a principal in The Ritchie Group, has said the underground parking garage is integral to the project’s overall financial success...The loan agreement sets up a legal mechanism for the city to give the developers the $15 million in
money for the parking garage, then lets the developers pay it back over time as their project generates additional tax money. Salt Lake City’s RDA will, in turn, pass those payments back to the county...

Additional Renderings of Block 67 - Subterranean garage to serve both Phases I and Phase II

Originally Posted by meman

December 5th - Construction fencing is going up around the West Quarter site today!!

Looks like another big project is imminent!!

Jacobsen is partnering with The Ritchie Group and Garn Development to build Phase I of The Block 67 Project. The West Quarter, a multi-use development that will help define the emerging sports and entertainment district in downtown Salt Lake City.
The project — adjacent to Vivint Smart Home Arena — will feature more than 650 residential units, a mid-block street with access to 200 South and 300 West, and a subterranean parking garage. The scope of work also includes more than
100,000 square feet of retail space, 430,000 square feet of office space and a 271-room hotel.

Phase I, The West Quarter

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A few renderings depicting the soon to be upcoming Phase II of the Block 67 Project


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From NE:

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Street Level Engagement:

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Originally Posted by ajiuO

The cranes seemed to pop out of nowhere quick.

Originally Posted by Makid

The view from the 6th North bridge is amazing. The cranes look so far away from Main Street even though they are only 2 blocks.

I can't wait for the 2 CCH cranes to also go up. 6 tower cranes up and working From State Street to 3rd West and South Temple to 2nd South.

My wife did point out to me today as we drove around downtown that there are many work trucks from out of state license plats at the various projects. I thought that this was nice in that we are pulling workers from other states for our projects.

May 31st


Photo By StayingInformed



June 29th

The West End project by Ritchie Group at 251 W 100 S is getting footings after installing two main cranes. Its first phase will add residential, hospitality, and hotel capacity around the Utah Jazz arena.

Photo By Luke Garrott @ https://www.buildingsaltlake.com/in-...tinues-to-pop/



July 29th

Pic By Scott Harding



August 28th

Photo By Atlas



December 23rd

Photo By Atlas



January 7, 2021


West Quarter project, left center. Photo by Luke Garrott.


Peeking into the West Quarter site. Photo by Luke Garrott.


The West Quarter’s south crane. Convention center hotel site, center top.
Photos By Luke Garrott of BuildingSaltLake.com



February 22nd

Photo By Atlas



April 12th

Here are some shots of the West Quarter from April 12th, found on Twitter. These are starting to make a big impact!






Photos Provided By Atlas - found on Twitter


April 25th



Site of the upcoming portion of Phase II of the West Quarter. Taken pre-demolition

Photos By Atlas

Updated Design of Hotel Portion of Phase I

Originally Posted by Atlas

The next planning commission meeting will discuss proposed changes to the West Quarter development. Most of it seems to be related to the appearance of the hotel portion of the project. Details and renderings (more in the document linked above):

The West Quarter project challenges the typical 10‐acre Salt Lake City block by proposing a development centered around a new through mid‐block street, resting on a below grade parking garage. The midblock
street will break down the large block scale and provide a pedestrian connection between the Downtown on 200 South and Gateway District on 300 West. The mid‐block street will be lined with retail on both sides creating an active urban environment that is focused more on pedestrian activity
while reducing vehicular traffic.

Due to the large size of our city blocks, the existing grade of our streets and sidewalks changes deceivingly across the block frontage as well as from one block to another. The existing grade along 300 West block changes by approximately 10’‐0”, approximately half of which takes place across the project frontage. Similarly, the grade continues to change along 200 South block frontage and 200 West creating three different elevations that the mid‐street and the service alley will connect and reconcile. From that perspective the project needed to prioritize the grade elevations and their transition to maximize accessibility and street activation without making modifications to the existing streets.

300 West is a State road operated by the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) and is subject to UDOT regulations. The existing street elevation along 300 West (between the new mid‐block street and entrance to the hotel port cochere) varies between 4272.96 at the south end and 4276.30 at the north end. The hotel ground level elevation has been set at 4278 to maximize accessibility and engagement with the new mid‐block street. The grade changes and complex relationship between the existing and new mid‐block street required the design of the 300 West frontage to be reevaluated subsequently to the Planning Commission approval.

And it turns out SLC will have at least one rooftop dining and drinking experience soon! I still hope to see something higher and closer to Main Street eventually. This one seems to have a mostly northwestern-facing orientation too, so the views of downtown and the Wasatch won't be dominant.

The current design maintains a rooftop bar along 300 West that will contribute to street and skyline activation in accordance with the city design standards and approved design. The refined building massing creates a distinct rooftop element articulated with recessed glazing, expressed columns and a continuous architectural roofline. The roofline terminates at the northwest corner of the building with a long and dramatic cantilever that, along with the glass volume below, announces the entrance to the
development. The distinct roofline will be illuminated with continuous, linear fixtures to maintain its presence and distinct expression on the night skyline while the wood clad soffit will diffuse the lighting
and create a floating effect.

In addition to the rooftop bar, that will activate the northwest corner and create a strong connection with the Vivint Smart Home Arena, the current design will provide street and skyline activation at the opposite southeast corner of the hotel. An outdoor pool deck, with views of the downtown skyline and mountains, will create additional active uses along the future extension of the mid‐block street. In addition to enhancing and connecting the second project phase, the pool deck will be visible and create a strong connection with 200 South.

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June 15th - Construction Updates, Phase I



Photos By Scott Harding

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Update, Downtown Western Fringe - 25 North 900 West

Originally Posted by Blah_Amazing

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

Another project to add to the absolute cascade of planned developments in the North Temple neighborhood, especially near the Jackson/Euclid TRAX Station.

Architect: di'velept design

Owner: Renovate Home Group

Project Summary:
35 North 900 West is a prosed 90 unit apartment project located near the Utah State Fairpark. It will be one building on combined parcels that equal 0.38 acres.

The building will have Studios, 1 Bedroom, and 2 Bedroom units.This project will be replacing an existing empty lot.

IT HAS 30 PARKING SPACES FOR A PARKING RATIO OF 0.34 (That's more like it, eh?)

Zoning: TSA-UNC
Max Building Height: 75'
Proposed Height: 68'-2"

Current Site Conditions:

Project Renderings & Site Plan:














Elevations:

It's important to note that the same developer also owns the parcels directly south of this project. I expect that's a sign we will get a similar if not an outright identical/reflected project on that site as well. They have filed a zoning verification letter for that site: https://citizenportal.slcgov.com/Cit...howInspection=

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Downtown Update - Massive Development Will Give Salt Lake City An Upscale Greektown

Originally Posted by Ironweed

I went to dinner last night with friends who are members of the Greek Orthodox Community Board.

They indicated that the next step for the Greek Town development was for a meeting of Woodbury's attorney with the city's and church's attorneys. If all goes well, they indicated that groundbreaking could occur as early as this fall.

Tony Semerad, for the Salt Lake Tribune - https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/02/...w-development/

Bringing life to dreams nurtured for more than two decades, members of Utah’s Greek Orthodox community are finalizing plans for a huge new development surrounding the Holy Trinity Cathedral in downtown Salt Lake City.

Documents soon to be submitted to City Hall envision creating an upscale campus around the 95-year-old cathedral at 279 S. 300 West, with elevated green plazas and public walkways, and an expanded cultural center for congregants of the Greek Orthodox Church of Greater Salt Lake.

The church’s yearly Greek Festival would get a larger and better-equipped home within the complex, capable of hosting more visitors.

Rendering courtesy of Greek Orthodox Church of Great Salt Lake) Utah's Greek community is finalizing plans for a major development of housing, offices, retail spaces and a new cultural center near Holy Trinity Cathedral at 275 S. 300 West in downtown Salt Lake City.

...the project would also bring an ambitious commercial development to several church-owned parking lots on both sides of 300 West. Draft plans call for multistory office and apartment towers, a 1,000-stall underground parking garage, shops, restaurants and a 150-room hotel — to be built and managed in partnership with Utah-based developer Woodbury Corp.
“We’re excited, not only for the good that will come out of such a project for our parish and future generations of youth but for Salt Lake City and downtown as a whole,” said the Rev. Archimandrite George Nikas, presiding priest at Holy Trinity Cathedral...

...In their deal with Woodbury Corp., church members intend to put about $12 million toward building the new cultural center, then rely on a leasing partnership with the development firm to finance the rest of the project.
The project’s overall price tag is estimated at upward of $300 million.

(Renderings courtesy of Greek Orthodox Church of Greater Salt Lake) Members of Utah's Greek community are readying plans for an ambitious development around Holy Trinity Cathedral at 279 S 300 West in downtown Salt Lake City. A view of the proposed project looking northwest from Pioneer Park.

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Downtown Update - Paperbox Project - Photo Updates at the Construction Site

Originally Posted by scottharding

...And the Paperbox demo is complete...

Luke Garrott Reports - Full Article @ https://www.buildingsaltlake.com/uta...oject-details/

Dust is newly stirring up on the block directly south of the Arena in West Downtown. The PaperBox Lofts, a project of Clearwater Homes and PEG Development, is clearing its inner block-long site
for construction. The developers are in final arrangements with the city for building permits, and expect construction to take 18-22 months...


Utah Paperbox site seen from the air at 400 West. Image by Luke Garrott.

It looks like the block is set to become even more dense. Clearwater hopes to submit designs for an 85 foot,
140 unit residential project to the city soon enough for a late 2019 construction start.


Massing rendering showing a future residential project fronting 200 South on the current parking lot between Westgate Lofts and the Dakota building. Image courtesy VCBO and SLC RDA.


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Originally Posted by Makid

Regarding the Paperbox Project:

Salt Lake City’s newest project, the Paper Box Lofts, will include 195 apartments and an ‘automobile vending machine’

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/03/...-citys-newest/

Developers began Tuesday to convert an old mid-block industrial site in downtown Salt Lake City into a project known as Paper Box Lofts, which will have three residential high rises, retail spaces, a visually
striking open plaza and a unique automated parking system.

Officials with Utah-based ClearWater Homes and PEG Development broke ground on the 1.99-acre property at about 340 West 200 South, just south of the Utah Jazz’s Vivint Smart Home Arena. When done,
the project will include 195 apartments.

Under an agreement with the city’s Redevelopment Agency, which has helped subsidize the project, developers will keep 36 apartments affordable to residents making 60 percent of the area median income.

Sixty percent of the area median income would be $31,700 in annual earnings for an individual, $36,200 for a household of two people and $40,700 for a household of three, according to data from Salt Lake City.

With its affordable housing, new parking, green space and midblock pedestrian walkways, Mayor Jackie Biskupski said Paper Box Lofts “will benefit our whole community.”

The project is also expected to extend the city’s downtown core further westward and improve pedestrian access from the traditional downtown to The Gateway. Salt Lake City-based ClearWater and PEG,
based in Provo, said the first residences of Paper Box Lofts are expected to be completed by spring of 2021.

Officials with ClearWater and PEG praised the help provided by city officials and the RDA in overcoming challenges with the property’s long, rectangular shape in designing what ClearWater CEO Micah Peters called
“a multifamily project we haven’t seen in this city before.”

Downtown’s latest housing project draws its name from Utah PaperBox, a privately owned packaging company founded in 1914 that occupied the site until it relocated in 2013 to new headquarters
at 920 South 700 West.

The PaperBox property, which is adjacent to a light-rail station, runs the east-west length of that block and has frontage on both 300 West and 400 West, giving it the equivalent of “two front yards,”
according to city documents.

One of those, the development’s east frontage on 300 West, will feature an open plaza with prominently displayed public art, serving “as a type of ‘calling card’ or ‘stamp’ for the entire project by providing
an engaging and colorful mural” painted on the side of its main parking structure, city documents say.

ClearWater and PEG have contracted with VCBO Architecture in Salt Lake City for design of the PaperBox project. Rimrock Construction is the builder.

The project is a leap forward for the Depot District, a westside area spanning Salt Lake Central Station and land west of The Gateway and designated by the city as blighted and in need of redevelopment.

ClearWater and PEG say the Paper Box Lofts’ first building, on 300 West, will have 95 residential units, and the second, on 400 West, will have 85 units. The third, smaller structure will have four residences.

Nearly half those will be one bedrooms, with the rest studio and two-bedroom apartments. Up to 14 units in the larger buildings will provide both working and living space, known as live-work or flex apartments.

Paper Box Lofts will also boast roughly 146 parking stalls, with about 96 of stalls those built into a large, multi-level parking structure designed to automatically stack and retrieve cars dropped off by their drivers.

Peters likened the system to “an automobile vending machine” that will essentially stack cars seven levels high. This is thought to be the first time such an automated parking system, made by an Oakland
company called CityLift, has been deployed in Salt Lake City.

Councilwoman Amy Folwer, who is also chair of the RDA board, called the new system “incredibly exciting” and said it could help the city meet a range of parking needs downtown.

ClearWater Homes has built several recent projects in the downtown area near the PaperBox site, including Broadway Lofts, just north of Pioneer Park, and Paragon Station, a 38-unit luxury condominium project
just south of the Utah PaperBox site.

PEG Development is owner and developer of two new hotels, Hyatt House and Marriott Courtyard, north of the PaperBox parcel, as well as the Milagro Apartments, at the southwest corner of 200 West and
200 South.

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Interior Of Block Perspectives

Rendering of the interior courtyard in the PaperBox Lofts. The project was designed by VCBO Architecture. Image courtesy Salt Lake City public document


Rendering of the interior courtyard in the PaperBox Lofts. The project was designed by VCBO Architecture. Image courtesy Salt Lake City public documents


Rendering of the PaperBox Lofts as would be seen looking east from 300 West. The project was designed by VCBO Architecture. Image courtesy Salt Lake City public documents.


Rendering of the PaperBox Lofts as would be seen looking east from 300 West. The project was designed by VCBO Architecture. Image courtesy Salt Lake City public documents.



January 2020 Update - Pics By Scott Harding







July 29th





Photos By Scott Harding



August 28th


Photo By Atlas



October 30th

From 300 West

From 400 West:

From 300 South:

Photos By ThePalmerHouse



November 17th

Paperbox Lofts from 400 W:

Photo By RC14



January 7, 2021

Originally Posted by wrendog

Wow. That is an impressive amount of infill going on right now. SLC is definitely changing in the six and a half years I've been away

Squeezed in between historic warehouse conversions and an electrical substation, Paperbox Lofts adds unique residential design savvy to west Downtown, just south of the Utah Jazz arena.

Paperbox Lofts, from the SW.


Paperbox Lofts from the west.


Paperbox Lofts from the NE. Photos By Luke Garrott at BuildingSaltLake.com



February 22nd

Photo By Atlas



June 14th



Photos By Scott Harding

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Downtown - 95 So. State

TrustEvil, Grabbed some closer shots today. I'll split them into two posts! - https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threa...l-t-o.2311213/

June 3rd







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Downtown Update - 465 S. Main goes before design review

Originally Posted by Blah_Amazing

BTW, should the 'higher roof' of 177.5 feet be considered the building height or the 'roof' of 175 feet?

BTW, I'm really glad that this project is continuing this trend of including a bronze/copper-colored motif that we have been seeing in several other projects as well.

Project Basics:

15 Floors (5 floor podium, 9 floors residential, top floor amenity)
175 feet tall (53 meters) to roof
242 residential units (48 studio, 50 1-Bed, & 73 2-Bed)
134 stacked parking system stalls (ratio of 0.55 : 1)
2,760 square feet ground floor retail on Main Street
0.57 acre lot in the D1 Zone
Architecture Firm: FFKR Architects
Developer: Peg Development

Project Description:

Quote:
Proposed projected is located at 465 Main Street, in Downtown Salt Lake City. The property is currently a vacant lot that has been subdivided into two lots; the one our project sists on and the adjacent lot which will house an office building. The new construction will be a 9-story tower built over a 5-story concrete podium.
The ground floor will be pedestrian scale retail that engages the street and the TRAX line. The upper floors will all be residential apartments, with a 5th floor amenity deck and a rooftop terrace. Parking will be housed behind the first-floor retail and will be a parking stacker system.

Project Renderings

View looking Northeast from the intersection of Main Street & 500 South


View looking Southeast from Main Street


View looking North from 500 South


View looking Northwest from 500 South


View looking Northwest from slightly above the DA Offices


Site Plan


Vicinity Map


Building Section

Elevations:

West Elevation


West Elevation


North Elevation


South Elevation


West Elevation

Also, the western elevation included the Sundial Tower, which was listed as 344 feet tall (sorry the image is a little blurry). So...height confirmation?[/B]

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Can’t keep track of all those new apartments in — or coming to — Salt Lake County and Greater Metro?

Tony Semerad for the Salt Lake Tribune - Full Article @ https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/06/...ere-all-those/

...Venturing out as some pandemic worries ease, residents along the Wasatch Front can’t help but notice new residential projects going up seemingly everywhere as a 10-year building boom hits new heights.

If you think the regional pace of apartment construction is a little bonkers right now, just know there are more on the way. Probably lots more. Studies show nearly as many new multifamily dwellings could be poised for construction in the four-county region centered on Salt Lake City now as have been built over the past four years.

Maps reveal a widespread rush of apartment building in Salt Lake, Utah, Weber and Davis counties, one that is likely to press ahead for years as the state’s population swells. But even after banner rates of apartment growth and a record 30,000 or more new rentals upcoming, experts say pent-up demand still is far greater — and all this new supply won’t do much to alleviate a housing shortage and rising rents.

As they have for almost nine years, vacancy rates on all these apartments continue to scrape historic lows of around 5% or lower. In some places, the share of vacant units is hovering at 2.5% — and landlords report they are having few problems leasing apartments when they open up.

“We’re just building at an equilibrium or maybe even less,” Paul Smith, executive director of the Utah Apartment Association, said of current boom. “We’re not catching up.”

...In Utah, the housing shortfall is estimated at around 50,000 single-family homes, apartments and other kinds of housing. The Wasatch Front’s rapid and historic shift since the Great Recession away from single-family homes to building more multifamily complexes has barely dented that gap.

Data shows that most of these new apartments coming on line in Utah will have market-rate rents — meaning, as much as the market will bear — compared to relatively few affordable units within the budgets of the state’s average wage earners.

“Some attention has to be paid to real affordability for working-class people who already live here,” complained Jacob Rosenzweig, an advocate for low-income renters in Utah, “and that’s not happening right now.” ...

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...A boom by any definition

...Based on the numbers alone, the decades-long apartment bonanza across Utah’s population centers has been stunning — and it shows several signs of accelerating, particularly with interest rates at their lowest in more than a generation.

Salt Lake County saw nearly 1,081 multifamily dwellings completed in all of 2010, compared to 8,022 in 2019, with nearly 6,135 of those new apartments in the heart of Salt Lake City. The county had another 8,706 units under construction as of 2020, and 10,907 more likely to start near term, according to data from the commercial real estate firm CBRE.

Almost 50 apartment complexes fill the county’s construction pipeline, data shows, with projects ranging in size from eight units to 449. Adjacent counties show a similarly dramatic pattern, putting them all on course to match or exceed the past four years of apartment construction in 2021 and 2022 alone.

Utah County has more than 7,090 new apartments either going up or in pending stages. In Davis and Weber counties, there are at least 3,583 and 3,051 new units, respectively, in the works...

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