Update, South Salt Lake Center
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...Also, a new building is starting to rise next to the new midrise office building under construction in South Salt Lake, presumably the apartment building in the middle of this rendering below:...Here's the project website: https://southcityutah.com/
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South Salt Lake’s Housing Boom Driven by its Transit Lines
Salt Lake Tribune - 12/24/2019 - https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/12/...lakes-housing/
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(Rendering courtesy of Newmark Knight Frank) South Salt Lake officials broke ground in October on South City, to be located on the site of the former
Granite Mill warehouse at 2200 South and Main Street. The project is part of a housing boom in the metro that will give South Salt Lake City its first downtown area.
By Tony Semerad
Railways helped turn South Salt Lake’s open fields of mid-20th century into “A City of Industry,” which is one of its nicknames. Trains brought people and businesses that fostered the first neighborhoods. Today, the rails that once shipped
lumber, stone blocks, and other supplies are light rail and streetcar routes fueling a residential boom. Since 2015, elected leaders here have approved more than 2,800 new apartments, townhomes, and other dwellings — mostly located adjacent
to TRAX lines and stations. For a built-out suburban city of roughly 25,000 residents spread over just under seven square miles, that’s a big number.
The new spate of apartments and townhomes was followed in October by a groundbreaking for a massive new development at the historic Granite Mill site near 2200 South and Main Street — a project that will give South Salt Lake a real shot
at building its own downtown just down the street from Salt Lake City’s growing core.
“This is so clearly not the South Salt Lake I grew up in,” said Mayor Cherie Wood, a lifelong resident.
To be called South City, the seven-acre project’s first phase is a six-story, 150,000-square-foot office tower. Software firm PDQ.com and GBS Benefits, a Utah employee-benefits brokerage and consulting company, have signed leases to occupy
the new building. The project has been launched after city leaders overhauled zoning rules in 2016 to encourage high-density developments along TRAX lines.
Subsequent phases in the $285 million project, according to investor-developer Dakota Pacific, will bring a 10-story apartment complex wrapped around an 800-stall parking garage, along with stores, more offices and a hotel. It ranks among
the largest redevelopments underway in the Salt Lake Valley. Wood said that beyond transit and incentives spurring development, the city’s new growth is born of years of painstaking community building and efforts to shed South Salt Lake’s
image as a bland, transient or unsafe place to live.
Likening it to a spoked wheel, the mayor said those efforts have involved more than a decade of trying to reduce crime rates, fortifying after-school and other youth programs, and “giving families a reason to stay and raise kids here.”
“I don't feel like we would have seen as much growth or as much positive change,” Wood said, “if we had not addressed every broken spoke in our wheel that we call community.” South Salt Lake’s upswing in housing and urban growth is also part
of a new wave of Utah cities pursuing variations of the same notion: locating higher-density homebuilding — often apartment complexes or town home projects — next to mass transit stops and land around the rail corridors that link them.
Housing density remains controversial in many communities, sometimes pitting the concerns of existing residents against potential newcomers. But there is often more consensus, city and planning officials say, behind locating large housing
projects near rail nodes, partly because it can lessen traffic problems.
Major housing projects and a host of smaller developments linked to Utah Transit Authority rail lines are now in progress across the Wasatch Front. In fact, there is now more interest from cities in partnering with UTA on such developments than
the agency can handle under state law.
“It’s really astounding to see the amount of transit-oriented development that is happening via market forces and city planning,” said Cameron Diehl, executive director for Utah League of Cities and Towns. Officials at Envision Utah and
other regional planning agencies have pushed the idea of high-density housing and retail development next to mass transit for years, not least as a land-use strategy to ease air pollution by reducing vehicle miles. The trend is gaining
new momentum now from what officials say is a dire regional need for housing at all price points as Utah’s population mushrooms.
New neighborhoods
To a city eager for housing options, a newly built enclave called Hawthorne — located at about 2800 S. West Temple in South Salt Lake, along a UTA rail corridor — is a win on several fronts. It’s a gated community of 219 stacked
flat-style apartments, for rent when townhomes are more often for sale. The two-story dwellings are between 1,300 and 2,000 square feet.
The housing project is spread over a 20-acre former industrial site, once home to the Buehner Block Co., purveyors of stone blocks. One top planner for South Salt Lake called Hawthorne “a great opportunity” to bring added housing
density — Hawthorne is 15 units per acre — along a TRAX corridor, while also adding to the city’s network of open spaces.
“Large tracts of land rarely become available,” said Alexandra White, manager of the city’s Planning Division. “The project has been extremely successful.” Since city leaders made zoning changes around the S-Line, also known as the
Sugarhouse Streetcar line, South Salt Lake’s old patterns of single-story construction have given way to more multistory projects, she said. Several housing developments, such as Hawthorne, have created entire new neighborhoods on what
were once manufacturing and industrial sites.
‘On the move’
South Salt Lake’s new downtown development area is framed by stretches of Interstate 15, Interstate 80, State Street and 2100 South. By one estimate, more than a million vehicles move through the city on these arterials every day. The
city center also has the valley’s only TRAX station — Central Pointe — that accommodates every rail line run by Utah Transit Authority, including the S-Line. “Developers are being drawn to this area because of the access and connectivity to the
rest of the valley,” said White, the city planner.
Real estate brokers say heightened interest in South Salt Lake is also a function of rising demand among residential developers for available land within commuting distance to downtown Salt Lake City. “That’s part of why I’ve never left South
Salt Lake,” Wood said. “I can get anywhere in 20 minutes, it feels like.” That easy access to other places is, ironically, part of what is driving development of South Salt Lake’s own distinct downtown center.
In its zoning plan for its downtown district adopted three years ago, the City Council converted a neighborhood previously focused on retail and manufacturing to one allowing high-density projects that combine buildings with a mix of different
uses. The plan also created incentives for high-density development near the S-Line, with no caps on dwellings per acre or building heights in the downtown district, White said.
When a new WinCo Foods grocery store opened in the district the following year, city officials predicted the area would one day be filled with more than 2,500 new housing units, 1.5 million square feet of retail and office spaces, several parks
and a recreational link to Parley’s Trail.
There are other signs that this vision is taking shape. Not far from South City there is a new cluster of breweries and distilleries that have sprung up in old warehouses, including Beehive Distilling, Level Crossing Brewery, Salt Fire and Shades
of Pale. The city’s downtown rezone in 2016 and its approach to transit were key to Beehive Distilling’s decision to open in South Salt Lake, said co-owner and head distiller Chris Barlow. “They have a high push for a live-work, walkable center
with an urban industrial feel,” Barlow said, “and that made it an area we were interested in.”
Update - Development Construction Boom Continues Along The New S-Line Transit Corridor - Mill Project Bringing Housing, Businesses, Retail To South Salt Lake
...This South City project sits on the historic Granite Mill near 2200 South and Main Street. It’s an area that’s already seen major changes over the last few years, with the addition of stores, apartments and businesses.
The latest increment in the project will add more than seven acres of commercial offices, residential and retail spaces, and a hidden parking structure. Included in the first phase will be a six-story, 150,000-square-foot office building. The
space is already 85% leased to companies like PDQ and GBS, which promise to bring in 350 new jobs.
Officials estimate the building will be complete in December 2020. South Salt Lake Mayor Cherie Wood said she hopes it will bring a new sense of community to the area. “We don’t have a downtown,” she said. “That’s why we’re doing this.”
Phase two of South City will include a 10-story apartment building wrapped around a core of parking with 800 stalls. That project is expected to be complete by December 2021. Additional phases will include more office space as well
as a hotel.
Preliminary Rendering of Mill Project
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Updated Rendering of current Mill Project - Phase I, Under Construction
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Hi-Grade Apartments, Construction Completed
Some of the now reaching completion and newly completed projects along South Salt Lake/Sugar House S-Line Transit - Luke Garrott Reports - Full Pictorial @
https://www.buildingsaltlake.com/in-...3sHx11Hn6Hu4zI
S-Line streetcar in the greenway (~2250 South). Photo by Luke Garrott.
S-Line at Main Street, South Salt Lake. Photo by Luke Garrott.
Liberty Crossing townhomes, South Salt Lake. Winco grocery to the left. Photo by Luke Garrott.
Ritz Classic apartments from the air, looking east at State Street. Photo by Luke Garrott
Zeller apartments, looking southeast from 300 East and the S-Line. Photo by Luke Garrott.
S-Line looking east on a July Sunday afternoon. Photo by Luke Garrot
The Brixton, looking east at 600 East and the S-Line. Photo by Luke Garrott.
The Brixton, looking northwest at 700 East and the S-Line. Photo by Luke Garrott.
The Sugarmont apartments, from the southeast. Photo by Luke Garrott.
The S-line townhomes are one of South Salt Lake's newer townhome developments. The project
consists of 32 owner occupied townhomes that take advantage of being located along the S-line Streetcar.
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While the Izzy Project pictured below is not one of the many projects located directly on the S-Line, it is an excellent indication of the effect that the transit line is also having on development within a short peripheral
walking distance.
Scandanavian Modern Coming To 2100 South - IZZY South Residential
A Scandinavian-modern, market-rate apartment project by locals High Boy Ventures and ajc architects will boost residential capacity along 2100 South in Salt Lake City between 500 and 600 East.
Izzy South, at 542 East 2100 South, will add 71 units in a 3-story structure along 283 ft of street frontage...40 studios, 21 1-bdrm, and 10 2-bdrm townhome-style apartments will make up the building.
The owners, Islington/High Boy Ventures, plan a mirror development directly across the street, where they own five parcels. That will be 142 units added to the neighborhood, affectionately called “Sugarhood” by locals. The project’s street
frontage along 2100 South will provide access to 13 walk-up units, and a parking garage entry in the center of the building. The at-grade under-podium parking will contain 58 stalls, a .8:1 parking ratio.
The west end of the building has three floors of retail space, and drawings suggest a bar, coffee shop, or restaurant...The builders highlight the all-electric components of the units: water heaters, unit heaters, and coolers. Giv Group’s Chris
Parker has been leading the local movement towards all-electric buildings. The Izzy developers are also hoping to install roof-top solar...
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