Salt Lake City Development News

[Dancer]

I saw a request in an SLC thread to make a SLC development news. As you can see I don’t live there but I really want to see this happen because it looks like there is some great stuff going on down there and it’s where I was borne. So here we go

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City Creek Center

A redevelopment of two 1/2 blocks or 25 acres of downtown SLC with a mixed use development. Currently under construction. It will be built in phases. Phase 1 includes the two biggest blocks shown. Phase 2 will be the half block to the right of the rendering.



Siteplan



Also note that the tall all glass tower does not currently exist downtown. my guess is that its proposed as part of this project.Also note that the tower close by it, half glass and half wood in the model has been reduced to the tower 2 listed below.


Building 1
Floors:32
Height:370'
Other: Residential Condos.


Building 2
Floors:19
Height:253'
Other: Residential Condos.


Building 6
Floors:10
Height:134'
Other: Residential Condos.


Building 7
Floors:10
Height:134'
Other: Residential Condos.


The development will also include a downtown Harmons Grocery store on the smaller block, the store will have 175' of apartments above it.
The other two towers that you see on that block are in phase 2. Pre planning shows one at 375'+ And the other will be lower than the 375' range.

222 south main street
Floors:22
Height:316'
Other: Recently broke ground last week. to contain over 400,000 sq feet of office space.


World Trade Center plaza
Floors:Unknown, but RFPs call for a 25-30 floor tower
Height:Unknown
Other: looking for 700,000 sq ft of office space. They are looking for a plaza of buildings as well. We could see a smaller 10-15 floor tower on the plaza as well, as seen in the pic. Final renderings have not been released yet.


RDA state street SRO property
Floors: unknown
Height:early mass modelings showed two twin 180' tall towers.
Other:mixed-use development to be built on the old SRO hotels sites. RFPs will be released in about 4 weeks. in planning stages.

RDA Sure Appliance property
Floors: unknown
Height:Unknown; could be up to 12
Other: RDA has released RFPs for a mixed use high density development. The site has been cleared and demolished. The RDA is currently reviewing requests. no renderings yet.

Wasatch Properties 400 south and state street property
Floors: unknown
Height:early preliminary plans showed a new tallest building, so over 420' tall
Other: The developer is in early plans to develop a mixed-use devlopment on the site. The newspaper has the developer as saying that the site is large enough to fit "two major towers". In planning phase.

US Federal Courthouse
Floors:10
Height:Unknown
Other:367,188 square feet. This building may be redesigned for a slimmer taller tower with a smaller footprint, due to historic buildings on the lot, which people are fighting to save. It will have a glass facade.



Vantage Tower
Floors:12
Height:Unknown
Other: Residential Condos in planning phase. located in the heart of downtown SLC. no exact location known. Developer is closing on land for project.


Broadway Park Lofts
Floors: three 7-8 story buildings
Height:Unknown
Other:Residential Condos. Under Construction



Metro Park West
Floors: 9 stories
Height:105
Other:Residential Condos. Currently in planning, taking reservations. mixed use, office, retail, condos.



Providence Place
Floors: 7 stories
Height:Unknown
Other: Residential Apartments. Bidding stage.


Metro Condos
Floors: 7 stories
Height:Unknown
Other:Residential Units. Under Construction


Emmigration Court Condos
Floors: 6 stories
Height:Unknown
Other:Residential Condos. Planning stage.


Emmigration Court apartments phase 2
Floors: 4-5 stories
Height:Unknown
Other:Residential units.planning stage. Expected to begin in 2008/2009

Marmalade Development
Floors: two 4-5 story buildings
Height:Unknown
Other:a mixed use development, currently under construction


City Center lofts
Floors: 4 story building
Height:Unknown
Other:residential units. 4 units total. in planning phase.


Angelina's Corner phase 1
Floors: 4 stories
Height:Unknown
Other: Residential condos. Under construction


Angelina's Corner phase 2
Floors: 4-5 stories
Height:Unknown
Other: residential condos. To begin construction upon completion of phase 1.

Bridges at citifront
Floors: multiple buildings-4 stories
Height:Unknown
Other: 295 Residential condos.


North Temple Condominums
Floors: 5-6 stories
Height:Unknown
Other: Residential Units. currently underconstruction. more floors added.


Meridien Condos
Floors: 5 stories
Height:Unknown
Other:upscale Residential units. currently being renovated from an old VA hospital.


Kirtland Condos
Floors: 5 stories
Height:Unknown
Other: Residential Condos. Currently under construction.


Occam lofts
Floors: 6 stories
Height:Unknown
Other:residential units. currently in planning stage.

Huntington townhomes
Floors: 4 stories
Height:Unknown
Other:residential units. currently in planning stage.


Gateway office building
Floors: 4 stories
Height:Unknown
Other:office space. Currently underconstruction. reduced to 4 floors.


Hyatt at the Gateway
Floors: 6 stories
Height:Unknown
Other:hotel. 120 rooms. Currently in planning stages.


Gateway Office buildings
Floors: two twin 8 story buildings.
Height:Unknown
Other:Office Space. Boyer has released information that they are planning two 8 story office buildings for the north end of the Gateway development. in planning stages.

Liberty Gateway
Floors: 5 stories
Height:Unknown
Other:Residential units. Currently under construction.

One and Nine Condos
Floors: 4 stories
Height:Unknown
Other:Residential units. Currently under construction.


WestGate Lofts
Floors: 6 stories
Height:Unknown
Other:Residential units. Currently under construction. renovation of old warehouse.


Patrick Dry Goods
Floors: 5 stories
Height:Unknown
Other:Residential units. Currently under construction. renovation of old warehouse.


Tire town phase2
Floors: 6 stories
Height:Unknown
Other:residential units. Currently in planning stage.


SoDo lofts
Floors: 6 stories
Height:Unknown
Other:residential units. Currently under construction.

Trolley square condos
Floors: unknown
Height:Unknown
Other:residential units. Currently in planning stage. 250+ residential units to be added to shopping center.

radi8 condos
Floors: 8
Height:Unknown
Other:residential units. Currently taking reservations.


Church Library
Floors: 5
Height:Unknown
Other: library for the church. Currently under construction.


Other projects in the works for Downtown SLC include:

-Trax lightrail extension to intermodal hub.
-30 miles of Commuter Rail will finish in 2008 at the intermodal hub. Dropping people off right at Downtowns doorstep.
-Large 2,500 seat broadway theater.
-Large 1,000+ room convention center hotel.
-Over 4,000 residential units planned/under construction in Downtown.

Thats a pretty good list to start it off.[/QUOTE]








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[bob rulz]

Hmmm....what's the HP Tower? I've never heard of it.

Either way, I'm really excited with what they're doing downtown.

Also, those are not what the buildings at the City Creek Center are going to look like. The final architectural plans haven't been drawn up yet; we won't know for a while. However, demolition is planned to start early next month with the Crossroads Parking Plaza, followed by the actual Crossroads Mall and then the Key Bank Building.

Also, thanks for posting the map and labelling all of the buildings on it! It helps out a lot in knowing the true scale of this $1 billion project.

Here, I'm going to copy over what I said about it in a thread about this below.

They are demolishing two high-rise buildings to make way for this project:

The historic First Security Building; also known as the Deseret Building. It was the second-tallest high rise in the city at the time it was built. It will be replaced with another office building. I'll be sorry to see this one go, but it's not that big of a deal. There's a couple of groups that are trying to save the building, but chances for it look to be, oh...say...1%. It was 0% before, but now the LDS Church has said that they will look into alternative plans for the building after receiving too many complaints. They say it's just too old to compete in a modern business world, and if renovated, the costs wouldn't be recouped.

Built in: 1912
Height: 59m/192ft (14th-tallest high rise in the city)
Floors: 14



Also going is the not-too-sightly Key Bank Building. I won't be too sorry to see this one go, but it's still a part of the skyline that's gonna be gone.

Built in: 1980
Height: 76m/250ft (11th-tallest high rise in the city)
Floors: 20



The two major downtown malls, the ZCMI Center Mall, and Crossroads Plaza, will both also be demolished. I'll definitely be sad to see those go, but the new redevelopment looks to be much better. Multi-level shopping and residential units...either outdoor or capped by a glass roof...and an awesome pedestrian bridge are all planned. Lots of additional residential and office space. A nice outdoor environment; a new man-made stream, a fountain, walkways, greenery, etc. This is my kind of redevelopment! I'm looking forward to everything except the 5 year construction process. Ugh, too long to wait!

I hope this will be seen as inspiration and an example of downtown urban redevelopment for other cities. This will hopefully turn Salt Lake City's downtown into a more vibrant and attractive place to go. I'm looking forward to the end result!

R.I.P Crossroads Mall, ZCMI Center Mall, First Security Building, Key Bank Building, Inn at Temple Square (another historic building in the city that's trying to be saved), and other buildings being demolished, but overall I say: bring on the wrecking cranes!

Supposedly the Gateway Tower West will be the new Key Bank Tower, and the Beneficial Financial Group Tower will be the new First Security Building. That's what I remember reading, but I'm not positive it's correct. I'd have to look it up again.

The other development in the area I'm looking forward to is The District at Daybreak in South Jordan; supposedly it's going to be a Gateway-style big-business shopping center to serve that new community and the rapidly-growing population. It's under construction at the moment. I don't know how it's going to end up, but hopefully it will be nice for a big-business shopping center.

There's lots of cool new things going on downtown, as well. I want to see how that new skyscraper at 222 S. Main will blend in with the skyline. It will serve to make the skyline even denser. I wonder if construction has started yet...I hope to go downtown and get one last look at everything before the demolishing begins, so I'll go check that site out at the same time.

PS: Thanks for making this thread! There's not much to talk about, but hopefully it will be active. And since it's a development thread, this should be stickied.

[Dancer]

It’s too bad about these old buildings being destroyed. I would really like to see them save at least the front of the old ZCMI. I loved going downtown to see the Christmas displays in the windows when I was a kid. I need to go down there and see all the new stuff going on and say goodbye to all my old hangouts. I haven’t been there in over 5 years! LOL I remember just before I moved to D.C. They were talking about demolishing the Salt Palace and building a new convention center.

[bob rulz]

Yeah, they did build a convention center. If you were here five years ago though I assume that you knew that already.

Oh, by the way, that picture is outdated; Gateway Tower West, which was built in 1998, is not there. I think the One Utah Center, which was built in 1991, is out of the picture either way, but if it's not, then it would be the late 80s, since the Eagle Gate Plaza, the big brown building, was built in 1986.

[Dancer]

Ya I remember the last time I went to SLC I saw the new convention Center. It was so weird to see the old Salt Palace gone. I’m still trying to find a good shot of downtown that is more up to date but most of them are very small.

[bob rulz]

When was the Salt Palace torn down? I moved here in 1995, and I'm pretty sure the old one was gone, although I'm not sure if the convention center was there yet.

And I went downtown yesterday to give myself a better idea of where the demolition will occur from the ground, and it's quite impressive the scale they're doing this on (for Salt Lake City at least). Downtown is going to look a whole lot different when this thing is over. I can't wait 5 years for this!

[Dancer]

I moved to D.C. I think the summer of 94 but I went to visit about 5 years ago. Most of my family still lives there.

[SDfan]

Nice to see development in Salt Lake City.

[ZD]

One improvement would be to demolish that ugly Mormon HQ skyscraper building. Completely hideous.

[bob rulz]

I agree with you, but that's not going to happen anytime soon. That building is not only the tallest (okay, not quite, but since it stands on higher ground than the Wells Fargo Center and is only a couple of feet shorter, it might as well be), but it's also one of the ugliest.

[Potgut]

Also 2 big projects going on I like to mention...

1-The kennecott copper mine is using its property to develop new communities...
From http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniont...z1h30dawn.html

SOUTH JORDAN, Utah – It's a plan for development that will take more than 50 years from start to finish, rising on the largest piece of privately owned land next to a U.S. metropolis for an expected half-million residents.

This megasuburb, twice the size of San Francisco, will be the work of Kennecott Land, the real-estate sister company of Kennecott Utah Copper Corp....

You can find more info at http://www.kennecottland.com/

2-The UTA Commuter Rail. Last weekend I drove I-15 north of Salt Lake City, I can already see the tracks being laid out on some areas near Farmington to Ogden. The train should first start running early 2008.



you can find more info at...http://www.rideuta.com/calendarAndNews/commuterRail/

[bob rulz]

Yeah, what Kennecott Land is very impressive! Their Daybreak Community is alright, but I'm not extremely impressed by it. However, I do think it's better than most of the new communities springing up around there. But still, the scale and size of it is impressive. The Salt Lake Valley is going to look a lot different in 75 years! In addition, western Salt Lake City proper, south of the airport, is going to see some residential construction starting in 2 or 3 years...I'm excited for that, as well.

And I'm really excited for the commuter rail. The TRAX system is already impressive (hopefully we'll get money for all 4 of the planned lines), but the commuter rail is a huge development.

[SDfan]

That massive development should be exciting, although more suburban sprawl can be disheartening for any urban area trying to become denser.

[i_am_hydrogen]

It is now a sticky.

[Dancer]

That sucks! I hate to see sprawl. They should just keep that side of the vally empty and develop more skyscrapers.

[bob rulz]

While the sprawl may be ugly, it's really going to help bring more people and strengthen the already booming economy of the area. However, I also agree that Salt Lake City should build more skyscrapers.

[Potgut]

Considering how bad the inversions are in Salt Lake these years, with the growing sprawl, I can't imagine how worse its going to be with more chimineys and cars.

Another problem is Water Usage, if Salt Lake City already have problems trying to conserve water after those drought years, I wonder how they are going to deal with it when the population starts to double and have droughts come again. Utah is the # 1 or 2 state in the country in water usage per person. Utahans believe in watering every single blade of grass in their yards, even if that blade of grass has been dead all summer.

Water is really cheap Utah

[bob rulz]

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0...204960,00.html

November 7

'City Creek' OK'd — LDS Church gets permits for 5-year project

By Doug Smeath
Deseret Morning News
Salt Lake City has given The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the official go-ahead: Five years of work on the planned City Creek Center can start tonight.
The city on Monday granted the first permits to Property Reserve Inc., the church's real-estate arm, for the planned revamp of two blocks at the heart of downtown. That means the barricades can go up and the Inn at Temple Square can come down.
"We are all thrilled that the first tangible work on this site is about to proceed," PRI president Mark Gibbons said Monday. He added this assurance: "Downtown and these blocks will continue to be open for business."
Sometime after 10 tonight, PRI's construction contractors will close the sidewalk on the east side of West Temple from South Temple midway to 100 South. Along with the sidewalk, the right-turn lane from West Temple to South Temple will close.
That has at least one business owner worried.
"We just can't imagine not being able to make a right turn on West Temple," Utah Woolen Mills Clothiers owner Bart Stringham said. His store, at 59 W. South Temple, plans to remain open during construction and once City Creek Center opens. "That's the main thoroughfare. We've been assured that our right-of-way and access to our business won't be denied."
But the right-turn closure is necessary to allow a staging area for construction trucks, according to Bill Knowles, ombudsman for Downtown Rising, a coalition of businesses plotting downtown's future.
"We will guarantee that business access is fully respected and maintained," he said.
Stringham said he's not sure yet how he will respond once the turn lane closes.
Salt Lake City transportation director Tim Harpst said the closures will have little effect on traffic in the area, and PRI and others involved remain hopeful that will continue throughout the entire project, which will ultimately see the demolition of most of the blocks currently housing the Crossroads Plaza and ZCMI Center malls.
"This is the opening of downtown," Salt Lake Chamber president Lane Beattie said. "This is the beginning."
While City Creek Center will be a "monstrous project," said Downtown Alliance director Bob Farrington, it represents only 20 acres out of 400 acres making up downtown's core. He said it will be fully contained, so there will be almost no impact on the surrounding shops, restaurants and offices.
The work will have no effect on Christmas shopping at Nordstrom and Macy's, both of which will remain open through the end of the year, he said. And the work "will have no bearing" on downtown holiday lighting displays or the Gallivan Center's First Night celebration on New Year's Eve.
Crossroads Plaza's parking structure will remain open as the inn comes down, with just one entrance closing, immediately south of the inn. The sidewalk on the south side of South Temple will also remain open, though part of it will be covered.
Utah Transit Authority spokesman Justin Jones said at least some bus routes that run down West Temple between 200 South and North Temple will be detoured to run along 200 West.
Once the barricades go up, construction crews will have some pre-demolition work to do before the inn comes down in mid- to late November, according to PRI's estimates.
The permits allow demolition work on the inn to last through the end of the year. After the inn, buildings will continue to fall one by one, roughly west-to-east. The Key Bank Tower will be the last to come down on the block.
In about six months, demolition will start on the ZCMI Center block, and the fate of one building there remains uncertain. Gibbons on Monday said PRI had made no decisions and had no updates on the Deseret Bank/First Security building, a historic building that was originally slated for demolition but is now being re-evaluated in the wake of public opposition.
Downtown reconstruction will begin tonight with sidewalk closure. Downtown Rising will use its Web site, www.downtownrising.com, to keep residents and visitors updated as the project progresses, detailing upcoming demolitions and closures as they are announced.
Knowles said he expects the biggest issues that Downtown Rising, PRI and others will face will involve speculation and some of the perceptions "that downtown is going to be one great big orange cone" rather than any serious traffic or access problems.

[bob rulz]

There's been some progress the last couple of days. The bridge to connect the shopping structure over Main Street needs approval before it can be constructed, although it currently violates the city's building codes, since a pedestrian bridge would block the views of the mountains. They said they would design it so that it would frame the mountain rather than block its view, and make it transparent, so it looks likely it will be approved. A vote for it has recently been approved.

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0...211260,00.html
Skybridge plan moves toward approval:
The Salt Lake City Planning Commission late Wednesday pushed a proposed skybridge over Main Street one step closer to approval.

Also, the first demolition is underway, and the inside has mostly been torn out. The Inn at Temple Square, built in 1931, is expected to come down in about 7-10 days.

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0...211829,00.html
Once a getaway, inn is now just a shell:
The Inn at Temple Square no longer looks like the cozy Victorian-style getaway that once drew celebrities and honeymooners from around the world.

[bob rulz]

Well, it turns out that the First Security Building is not going to be torn down after all. Public outcry caused the LDS Church to change their mind on demolishing it, and now it's going to be saved. I have mixed feelings about this; on the one hand, I love the old buildings, their architecture, their history, etc, but on the other hand, they've already said it can't be modernized efficiently and is too outdated to be competitive in the modern economy, and this means that a cooler, modern, more efficient office buidling won't take its place, as planned. Well, I guess this is what many of the people wanted (it was pretty split; I almost feel like the pro-demolition people didn't get their views expressed; that's how it happens sometimes).

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0...213482,00.html
First Security building is saved

November 8

LDS Church will keep it in City Creek project

By Wendy Leonard
Deseret Morning News
Overwhelming public outcry has persuaded LDS Church officials to allow the historic First Security building to remain standing while much around it will come tumbling down to make way for the City Creek Center development.
Officials with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints told the Salt Lake City Council Thursday that they would not tear down the First Security building to complete their downtown development plan.
"It will not be demolished at this time," the church's Presiding Bishop H. David Burton said, adding that the public outcry, including efforts of the Eccles Foundation, very much influenced their decision.
"The Eccles were former owners and are current occupants of the building," Bishop Burton said. "It's been at the heart and soul of their family for years, and they've done tremendous things for the community."
Spence Eccles, president of the Eccles Foundation and a former chief excutive officer of First Security Corp., had said in early November that he would like to see the building preserved. He joined others, including several City Council members and the Utah Heritage Foundation, in voicing support for keeping the building standing instead of razing it to make way for a new office tower as part of the church's planned City Creek Center.
Eccles could not be reached for comment Thursday night.
Church officials have not decided how the old building will be put to use in the new plan. Bishop Burton said the building's purpose will be announced at a later date, but possibilities involve using it for residential or office space.
The church's initial plans for the mall, unveiled in October, had called for demolishing the historic building, also known as the Deseret Building. The church had said the building would require an expensive seismic retrofit, and the high costs of restoration could not be recouped.
In late October, the church announced it would re-evaluate its plans for the building. The decision came after criticism from historic preservationists and other residents about losing the building. The Utah Heritage Foundation had called on residents to make their opposition to the demolition known.
The Heritage Foundation called the 1919 building a "gem" of classical revival architecture and "one of the finest representations of the World War I era in Utah." Carved lions heads peer from atop the building, and below it is adorned with ornate buffalo and Indian-head medallions, as well as two rows of classical columns.
"It's just not a good design (for an office building), but it's lovely architecture on the outside," Bishop Burton said Thursday.
City Council members applauded the decision, thanking the church for considering residents' wishes.
"A number of people were concerned with the preservation of the Deseret Building," Councilman Eric Jergensen said. "This shows a benefit of the process and of public involvement."
Bishop Burton said Salt Lake City is not the only area the church is helping to facilitate revitalization. He said Thursday that in addition to the City Creek Center plans, the church is funding redevelopment projects in Ogden, Los Angeles and Mesa, Ariz.
"The environment around our sacred structures is very important to us," Bishop Burton said. "Preserving that is very important."