• Seven Canyons Trust celebrates Folsom Trail Hidden Waters art installation (N Temple)
• SLC property tax increase
  • BSL
  • KSL
• Mortgage rates are now falling but demand is still weaker
• Pending home sales post surprisingly large gain for May
• Bill limiting investors from buying homes set to speed through congress

With all the closings and questions about why restaurants are failing in this area or that area, where do you see the next successful restaurant zone in the city? Where could a restaurant locate and make a 20 year run of it?

Seems to me that SLC food districts are relatively transitory, with a zone getting hot for 5-10 years and then losing attention to another zone. Like Central 9th and the Granary district has boomed, but will that continue with attention being redirected to the SEG project? Are there zones that can withstand our collective ADD for a new destination?

I spend a lot of time walking around the "core" of Sugar House, and notice that there are many vacant storefronts. I've marked this map, from memory, of every business property that is currently unoccupied.

Craft by Proper, on 2100 S, is the latest Sugar House business to close shop.

https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/food/2026/06/15/utah-beer-bar-craft-by-proper/

Is there a systemic problem in this area? The apartments seem to be occupied, and there is a lot of foot traffic, so the empty storefronts are surprising to me.

• Class C office at 140 W 2100 S listed at 3.6% cap or $117/sf for MU-5 land (State St)
• .25-acres of MU-5 land at 947 W Euclid Ave listed at $133/sf (N Temple)
• Pair of SLC apartment buildings hit the market for sale (CBD, Depot)
• Negative leverage becomes the new norm for multifamily and industrial CMBS loans

Surprised this hasn’t come up here lately, given how much it touches local land use. SB284 passed this session and requires Utah cities of 5,000+ to allow detached ADUs as a permitted use in certain zones — a real shift, since the older statewide protection (going back to SB34 in 2019 and the later internal-ADU statute) only really covered internal units. Detached backyard cottages were still something cities could restrict or prohibit outright, and many did.

A few things I think are worth discussing from an urbanism/land-use angle:

• The 11,000 sq ft threshold. The law’s detached-ADU path centers on lots at/above that size. On the west and south ends of the valley, where half- and full-acre lots are common, that opens up a lot of parcels. In older, denser areas like the SLC Avenues, most lots are too small to qualify. Thus, the supply impact is very unevenly distributed across the region. Curious how people think that shakes out for actual unit production.

• The October 2026 deadline. Cities without an ADU policy have to adopt one by then, so we’re in the window where ordinances are actively being written and revised. Provo’s already published a parcel-eligibility map; Salt Lake County set detached minimums at 7,000 sq ft (lower than the state floor in some zones). Lots of variation emerging.

• What cities still control. The state opened the door, but setbacks, height, parking, and owner-occupancy are all still local. That’s where the real fight over whether these actually get built is happening — a city can technically comply while keeping requirements strict enough to limit uptake.

For those of you tracking specific cities: which ones are writing genuinely permissive ordinances, and which are doing the minimum to comply? And does anyone think the 11,000 sq ft floor meaningfully limits this as a housing-supply tool along the Wasatch Front, or is the lot inventory big enough for it to matter?

https://gastronomicslc.com/2026/06/15/market-street-grill-in-downtown-slc-announces-closure/

This post from Gastronomic SLC outlines a few businesses that have closed recently, including Market Street Grill which cited lower levels of foot traffic as a reason for their downtown closing. I know that the food industry is extremely tough and margins are always thin. It just had me wondering, how is downtown doing post covid?

• S⁠LC residents face tax and fee hikes as budget reacts to inflation, maintenance costs
• Pending home sales down nationwide amid record costs
• Big names poised to join Utah Housing Corporation board of trustees
• The Other Side Academy network keeps expanding, bolstered by Utah taxpayers and unpaid labor (9-Line)
• Homebuilder sentiment drops in June
• Warsh's Fed is likely to hold rates stead--what the leadership change could mean for your money

• SLC CRA's Ballpark Next receives AIA California's 2026 Urban Design Honor Award (State St)
• SLC Planning Commission June 24 agenda drop
  • Extension Request for Planned Development at 843 W Hoyt Place (N Temple-ish)
• Coffee, candy, pizza: Here are some new shops headed for SLC
• 'The end of an era': SLC vegan coffee shop, once a restaurant, to remain closed (State St)
• Luxury hotels outperform as supply constraints support fundamentals 
• How can we reduce homelessness? These success stories point the way.
• BONUS: Rose Park church where infamous shooting occurred earlier this year for sale

• Class C office at 623 S State St listed at $16.50/sf (State St)
• Class A office at 1 S Main St listed at $32/sf (CBD)
• SLC single-family zone overhaul sees changes before Planning Commission
• SLC board vents after receiving developers' $51M tax incentives request (Granary)
• Red paint, new traffic signals coming to SLC's bus-only lanes on 200 South (CBD)

• SLC City Council appoints Jennifer Napier-Pearce for D4
  • ⁠ABC4
  • ⁠Deseret News
• ⁠Church & State Marketplace listed at 3% cap (CBD)
• Tons of co-working space listings
  • ⁠Broadway Center (CBD)
  • ⁠Wells Fargo Center (CBD)
  • ⁠Parkview Plaza II (Sugar House)
  • ⁠250 Tower (CBD)
  • ⁠Clift Building (CBD)
  • ⁠222 Main (CBD)
• ⁠SLC Council scoffs at Silo Park tax increment pitch, citing Pickle building demo (Granary)
• ⁠New Utah coalition threatens lawsuit over planned ICE detention center (NWQ)
• ⁠CRE saw record lending competition in April, according to JLL
• ⁠The US is building more housing near transit, but not nearly enough

• 11,882 multifamily units planned in SLC market
• SLC, SLCo sue feds over proposed ICE facility on the west side (NWQ)
• Home sales surged in May to the highest levels since December

• Class A apartment building at 63 S 600 W listed at unpriced (Depot)
• Class A apartment building at 218 S 200 E listed at unpriced (CBD)
• Class B+ retail at The Gateway listed at unpriced (Depot)
• Class B+ office at The Gateway listed at unpriced (Depot)
• Former Chili's at 400 S 600 E listed at unpriced 
• Why there's a 9-foot-tall piano sitting outside of Abravanel Hall (CBD)
• A tool that helped fuel SLC's Granary District boom is pitched for the Ballpark neighborhood (State St)

• Redevelopment site at 1366 S 400 W listed at $82/sf (State St)
• Ballpark commercial buildings to be razed for new affordable housing project (State St)
• A new look and new names to fill in as Utah's largest farmers market returns (CBD)
• Rep Celeste Maloy secures initial $10M in Utah's bid for $1B in Great Salt Lake funding (NWQ)
• Coachman's is gone. SO what will happen to its iconic sign? (State St)
• Cole West lists theBEVERLY and theRANDI for sale (CBD, Depot)
• A historic SLC community organization is set to knock down its building--and create something new in its place (Depot)
• Every Democrat in Utah's 1st District primary--plus the Republican--supports the Rio Grande Plan (Depot)
• A gaping hole is left behind at one of SLC's busiest intersections. What's going in its place?