Protester Michael Valentine says positive comments from city leaders led him to end his hunger strike and send an ‘olive branch’ even as he tries to prevent the historic playhouse’s demolition.
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The Reynoldsburg Board of Building and Zoning Appeals denied a conditional-use permit May 20 that would have allowed more than 100 apartments to be built alongside a 50,000-square-foot medical office building on East Main Street.
The bulk of the 14.6-acre project proposed by the Homewood Corp. – more than 10 acres – was to be dedicated to 180 two- and three-bedroom apartments east of Carlyle Drive and across the street from Glen Rest Memorial Estate.
The property falls along the Franklin/Licking county line in an area classified by the city’s comprehensive plan as the East Main Street District (EMD). The EMD is “intended to serve as a transportation corridor lined with compact, mixed-use development,” according to the 2018 plan.
| 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.
| 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.)