| Updated: 11:11 p.m.
Sacrificing Main Street’s run-down Utah Theater for a residential skyscraper project is supposed to bring other benefits to Salt Lake City.
As part of a controversial pact to “sell” the vacant 102-year-old relic to co-developers Hines and The LaSalle Group for zero dollars, city leaders who agonized over giving up on fixing the building sought guarantees in return: affordable homes in the resulting tower, a midblock walkway cutting west off Main and a new pocket park in a part of downtown where public open space is scarce.
Another big condition for the city’s land discount was perhaps the hardest to fulfill: Create a digital repository to fully capture the crumbling grande dame of Utah’s performing arts past for future generations before she gets demolished.
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and last updated 2021-02-08 11:44:02-05
SALT LAKE CITY â Even a pandemic canât stop the building boom in Salt Lake City.
Several high rises are currently under construction, including a 700 room, 28 story Hyatt Hotel on West Temple, and two residential towers on State Street.
Elsewhere in the city, dozens of mid-rise apartment buildings have popped up in recent years, and more are on the way.
But as the boom continues, some say itâs taking a toll on history.
| Updated: Jan. 21, 2021, 5:00 p.m.
“Small” Lake City keeps growing up.
Need proof? Check out the ever-rising skyline, where 2021 and 2022 will bring three new skyscrapers to the heart of Utah’s capital:
• The 24-story Liberty Sky apartment tower, climbing 250 feet.
• The 25-story 95 State at City Creek office complex, soaring 393 feet.
• The 26-story Hyatt Regency convention center hotel, climbing 375 feet.
None of these high-rises will displace the city’s top two skyscrapers in terms of height. Those are the 26-floor Wells Fargo Center on Main Street (at 422 feet) and the 28-story LDS Church Office Building (420 feet). (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.)
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