The 26-story hotel, to be called Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City, will have 700 rooms and 60,000 square feet of meeting space and will be built into the existing Salt Palace for “seamless access.” (Renderings courtesy of Portman Architects) Rendition of the new convention center hotel being built at the northwest corner of 200 South and West Temple in Salt Lake City, above the Salt Palace Convention Center. It also will include a ground-level meetinghouse.Īt 393 feet high, it will edge out 111 Main as the city’s third tallest building in today’s lineup.ĭesigned by Chicago-based architects at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the tower also further solidifies the LDS Church among downtown’s top developers of office, retail and residential properties, a portfolio that includes the neighboring City Creek Center, opened in 2012. The building, dubbed 95 State at City Creek, aims to be a pinnacle in what’s called Class A office life, with 515,000 square feet of workspaces that backers say will “reinvent the 9-to-5” experience and promote the health and well-being of its occupants. It’s the work of City Creek Reserve, a development arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which also built the 25-floor, 380-foot 111 Main, a little over a block away. (Rendering courtesy of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, via Salt Lake City) 95 State at City Creek will rise 25 stories at the northeast corner of State Street and 100 South in Salt Lake City.Īt 25 stories, this top-end office tower at 100 South and State Street is set to open in fall 2021. Here’s a look at the projects coming on line this year and soon afterward. And while these may not greatly alter the skyline, their office, retail and residential offerings will continue to change life downtown. “Every city advertises its skyline,” and especially with the Wasatch range as a backdrop, “we have the potential for a really beautiful skyline.”ĭozens of other projects underway in 2021 will bring new midsize buildings, including the Post District, spanning more than a city block from 500 South to 600 South between 300 West and 400 West. “I’ve been waiting for Salt Lake to be a city for a long time,” joked Scheer, who heads the city’s Planning Commission. If struggling downtown merchants can hold on, Scheer and others insist, the construction and new residents are likely to elevate foot traffic and commerce well past a vaccine while bumping up the city’s world profile in general. “All these kind of work together to create an ensemble effect that is much more visually lively,” said Brenda Case Scheer, University of Utah professor emeritus of architecture and planning.
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Their facades and relationship to the street are shaped to make walking the city more interesting, with engaging entrances, big windows and street-side shops, eateries and other eye-drawing features. Under city standards adopted just before this latest building spurt, the new downtown landmarks are designed for lively ground floors to create a sense of vibrancy. They will bring additional height and density, new standards of residential and office luxury, and a distinct architectural feel. The new skyscrapers will be unmistakable on the city’s mountain-framed horizons. Volumes of new building permits and plan reviews even strained City Hall at times as a long-sought critical mass of downtown residents and housing units added since 2010 continues to mushroom.
Though they all shuddered with the coronavirus, only a small fraction of nearly 50 major developments in the city center’s pipeline has faltered due to COVID-19.
With construction deemed essential under health edicts, a multiyear downtown building boom kept rolling last year and will now reach well into 2021 and beyond - pushing the city upward and out as it adds new skyscrapers, scads of office spaces and hundreds of apartments and hotel rooms.
Not even a global pandemic could knock Salt Lake City off this upward trajectory. restaurant, the northwest corner of State Street and 200 South, will, at a date not yet set, see luxury residences replace fast-food burgers. The Wells Fargo building will lose its lofty status, however, when the planned 39-story, 448-foot Kensington Tower peaks above all the others. (It’s a myth that Salt Lake City ever had a rule against building anything taller than the North Temple behemoth housing offices for the state’s predominant faith.) Those are the 26-floor Wells Fargo Center on Main Street (at 422 feet) and the 28-story LDS Church Office Building (420 feet). None of these high-rises will displace the city’s top two skyscrapers in terms of height.
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