(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. 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.
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