Reinvesting. Revitalizing. Reconnecting. REDEVELOPMENT However, we could not have done landscapers, planners, preservationists, take as much pride in our collective map, with pins marking the locations of this work alone. We are grateful to the and real estate professionals with whom impact on the City as we do. our major projects. Introduction residents, businesses, and property we have partnered and worked are too owners in our project areas for their numerous to name. As you look through this summary of the We look forward to adding more pins patience and input, our taxing entity RDA’s work, we expect you will recognize to this map as we continue to serve Throughout our 50-year history, the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake partners for their financial support and To all those whom our work has touched many of our projects as the buildings the community through investment confidence, our fellow City agencies or with whom we have crossed paths, and gathering spaces you may see, pass in redevelopment projects that will City (RDA) has taken a leading role in improving the livability and econom- and nonprofit organizations for their we extend a collective “thank you” for through, or utilize on any given day. While enhance the City’s housing opportunities, ic vitality of Utah’s capital city. We have done this by focusing on services and programs, and our joining us on this 50-year journey. Your not able to dedicate a page to every commercial vitality, and public spaces for the areas and neighborhoods that need it most, and supporting vital visionary community representatives trust and cooperation has allowed us project, we have included a sampling of the next 50 years, and beyond. and public officials. We also appreciate the opportunity to complete 50 years projects for each decade, with a running housing efforts citywide. the development community for its of significant work that has contributed timeline below. Additionally, on page 19 immense expertise, and investment. The to Salt Lake City’s quality of life and you’ll find a literal overview of the RDA’s amazing architects, builders, engineers, economic stability. We truly hope you impact on the City in the form of an aerial

When the RDA began in June 1969, careful lens, making sure to keep the has contributed to the fabric of Salt Children’s Museum ’09), provided grants the practice of redeveloping a city was changing needs of Salt Lake City in Lake City in a myriad of ways. Our role for affordable housing (Romney Park relatively new to residents of Salt Lake focus. During these 50 years, there were in hundreds of redevelopment projects Plaza ‘84, CitiFront ’98, Artspace Bridges City, many of whom had only heard of many legislative changes that enabled that have helped cultivate so many of ’01), and participated in tax increment this concept in relation to somewhat- redevelopment agencies across Utah to Salt Lake City’s residential, commercial, reimbursement partnerships (Gateway controversial public housing projects use tax increment financing to fund new and public places is vast and varied. ’01, 222 Main ’08, Vivint Smart Home undertaken by urban renewal agencies types of projects within their respective Sometimes our contribution has been Arena ’15). in Chicago and New York City. This communities. Mindful of fostering Salt a land write-down to stabilize or spur perception of redevelopment was soon Lake City’s authenticity, we strived to development in a particular area (Heber Our efforts have resulted in the creation dispelled as the RDA forged strategic operate in a balanced way that not only Wells Building ’80, Central Ninth Market of approximately 7,000 housing units of projects that not only put Salt Lake City built up and revitalized the City, but also ’16, Macaroni Flats ‘17), often we funded which nearly half are affordable, historic on the map of great cities in the West, preserved its history and nurtured its public infrastructure (Pierpont Walkway renovation and adaptive reuse of more but also enhanced its neighborhoods unique character. ’92, Pioneer Park ’95, 500 West Utility than 50 existing buildings, providing and business districts and stimulated Undergrounding ’09), and many times $53.6 million in commercial loans, and additional private investment therein. With projects spanning from pocket we provided gap financing through our investing upwards of $170 million in parks to urban plazas, from midblock loan program (Odyssey House ’00, public improvements with infrastructure, Over the past five decades, as American walkways to festival streets, from Broadway Park Lofts ’14, Atmosphere green space, transit, and public art cities experienced growing pains and historic single-family homes to multi- Studios ’16). We have also assisted public projects. Our contribution and balanced cultural shifts, we observed these story apartments, from neighborhood entities in acquiring community assets approach to community reinvestment has economic and social trends through a businesses to office towers, the RDA (Capitol Theatre ‘76, Salt Palace ’84, proved worthwhile.

2 3 Acknowledgements

PRESENT

Leadership & Staff Redevelopment Advisory Committee Mayor Jackie Biskupski Executive Director Claudia O'Grady Chair Lara Fritts Chief Executive Officer Dale Christiansen Vice Chair Danny Walz Chief Operating Officer Lance Dunkley Jill Wilkerson-Smith Deputy Chief Operating Officer Brian Doughty Kort Utley Senior Project Manager Jason Head Tammy Hunsaker Senior Project Manager Mark Isaac Cara Lindsley Project Manager Darin Mano Chief Administrative Officers Dale Lambert 2002 - 2005 Susan Lundmark Project Manager Mojdeh Sakaki Mayor Ralph Becker 2008 - 2016 Van Turner 2000 - 2011 Corinne Piazza Project Manager Mayor Rocky Anderson 2000 - 2008 Nancy Saxton 2000 - 2007 Jonathan Goates Project Manager Mayor Deedee Corradini 1992 - 2000 Dave Buhler 2000 - 2007 Tracy Tran Project Manager Carlton Christensen PAST Mayor Palmer DePaulis 1985 - 1992 1998 - 2013 Amanda Holty Communications & Outreach Manager Mayor Ted Wilson 1976 - 1985 Tom Rogan 1998 - 2001 Jim Sirrine Property Manager Mayor Conrad B. Harrison 1974 - 1976 Roger Thompson 1998 - 2001 Leadership Kalli Ruiz Accounting Mayor Jake Garn 1972 - 1974 JoAnn Milner 1997 - 1999 Justin Belliveau Robyn Smith Office Facilitator Deputy Director 2010 - 2015 Mayor J. Bracken Lee 1960 - 1971 Deeda Seed 1997 - 1999 Rachel Molinari Office Facilitator Chief Operating Officer 2016 - 2017 Bryce Jolley 1997 - 1999 Ed Kosmicki Special Projects Assistant DJ Baxter Executive Director 2007 - 2016 Lee Martinez 1997 Board of Directors Kathryn Loden Special Projects Assistant Mary Mark 1997 Valda Tarbet Deputy Director 2002 - 2007 Connor Lee Wen Special Projects Assistant Derek Kitchen 2015 - 2018 Keith Christensen 1994 - 2001 Acting Executive Director 2005 - 2006 Lisa Ramsey Adams 2014 - 2017 Stuart Reid 1994 - 1997 Housing + Project Management 1969 - 2002 Kyle LaMalfa 2012 - 2014 Sam Souvall 1994 - 1997 Board of Directors Richard Turpin Deputy Director 1969 - 2002 Stan Penfold 2010 - 2017 Paul Hutchinson 1992 - 1996 Acting Executive Director 1989 - 1990, 2000, Amy Fowler Chair Luke Garrott 2008 - 2014 Nancy K. Pace 1990 - 1993 2001 - 2002 Chris Wharton Vice Chair JT Martin 2008 - 2011 Don Hale 1990 - 1993 Andrew Johnston Dave Oka Executive Director 2002 - 2005 Soren Simonsen 2006 - 2013 Alan Hardman 1988 - 1996 Charlie Luke Larry Catten Executive Director 2000 - 2001 Jill Remington-Love 2002 - 2013 L. Wayne Horrocks 1988 - 1991 Erin Mendenhall Alice Steiner Executive Director 1990 - 2000 Eric Jergensen 2002 - 2009 Florence B. Bittner 1986 - 1989 James Rogers Michael Chitwood Executive Director 1975 - 1989 W.M. “Willie” Stoller 1986 - 1989 Analia Valdemoros M. Danny Wall Executive Director 1969 - 1975

4 5 Thomas Godfrey 1985 - 1997 Redevelopment Advisory Committee Staff Paul Hutchinson 1992 - 1996 Jess Agraz Larry Migliaccio Shaké Agaronyan William Lassiter Nancy K. Pace 1990 - 1993 Gloria Albertini Paul Nelson Dixie Anderson Catherine Lopez Don Hale 1990 - 1993 Diane Banks Ruth Novak David Arteaga Patricia Maltsberger Alan Hardman 1988 - 1996 Sanford Barrett Nancy Pace Bradley Baxter BreAnne McConkie Gale L. Wayne Horrocks 1988 - 1991 Rosemary Beless Bonnie Phillips Crayola Berger Mack McDonald Feather Midgley Florence B. Bittner 1986 - 1989 Adrienne Bell Brenda Scheer John Billings Richard Millward W.M. “Willie” Stoller 1986 - 1989 John Carmack Jack Schiefer Tanya Blakemore Anisa Brown Shauna Morgan Thomas Godfrey 1985 - 1997 Gene Carr Steve Simmons Shawn Burgon David Moultrie Roselyn Kirk 1985 - 1996 Renee Chase Bob Springmeyer John Burrows David Murrary Earl Hardwick 1984 - 1987 Mary Clark Clarkson Michael Stransky Kathryn Burrows Merrill Nelson Alice Shearer 1980 -1984 Peter Cole Roger Thompson Ed Butterfield Travis Pearce Ronald J. Whitehead 1980 - 1993 Robert Cottle Brian Wilkinson Mia Caselli Anne Pichette Sydney Reed Fonnesbeck 1980 - 1989 Bill Cutting Tim Williams Weston Clark Ronald Pohlman Grant Mabey 1980 - 1987 Robert Dodge Robert Young William Clark Kat Potter Ione M. Davis 1980 - 1985 Sue Douglas Christensen Casey Coleman Frank Ramos Edward W. Parker 1980 - 1985 Gary Evershed Lois Cortell Nick Rupp Palmer A. DePaulis 1980 - 1983 Mark Flores Ben Davis Keith Sargent David C. Campbell 1978 - 1979 Bernardo Flores-Sahagun Angelica Delgado David Scarlet Thomas L. Hall 1978 Dave Galvan Robert Drennan Clayton Scrivner Jess A. Agraz 1976 - 1979 Christopher Gamvroulas Angela Dunn Scott Sharp Herman J. Hogensen 1975 - 1976 Polly Hart Ashlie Easterling Laura Speasmaker Glen N. Greener 1974 - 1979 Tim Hoagland John Ellingson Galina Urry Jennings Phillips Jr. 1972 - 1979 Clinton Johnson Emily Farmer Kevin VanFrank Stephen M. Harmsen 1972 - 1975 Brett Johnson Louise Garcia Peggy VanGerven E.J. “Jake” Garn 1968 - 1970 Gary Jones David Gashler Stephanie Wallace James L. Barker Jr. 1966 - 1974 Jeremy King Nicholas Hadfield Wenlyn Walters George Catmull 1963 - 1972 Cindy Kinred Sydnie Harman Jolynn Walz Conrad B. Harrison 1960 - 1974 Buzz Larsen Georgia Hatch Alisia Wixom Kestrel Liedtke Larry Holladay Deborah Wright Michael Mahaffey Karen Hunter Warren Wright Paul Mendenhall Michele Hutchins Kenneth Young Marci Jacobson Harry Johnson Laura Kirwan John Lacome Russel Lane

6 7 RDA Projects

B70: Block 70 CBD Block 57 - Gallivan Center SH Hidden Hollow (pgs. 48 - 49) SH CDP Properties CBD Extension of Central Busi- WTG Washington Street Town WTG Children’s Miracle s CBD: Central Business District 1980 Pages 30 - 39 Phase II (pgs. 44 - 45) CBD Crane Building Renovation SH Fairmont Public Pool ness District Project Area Homes Network Hospitals Headquarters (pg. 59) CC: Central City CBD Pioneer Park Upgrades CBD Hotel Monaco Renovation Improvements CBD Main Street Grant CBD 300 South Pedestrian CWH Sedona Apartments WCH Utah Symphony and Program Improvements WTG West Montrose Environ. CWH: Citywide Housing CBD Heber Wells Building CC Bliss Homes Opera Facility CC Library Square CBD 317 S. Main Street Remediation DD: Depot District CBD Homestead Suites: Land DD The Road Home Planning HTF Multi-Ethnic Senior Condominiums Renovation WTG People's Portable acquisition & sale Study WTG Wilford Apartments GD: Granary District Housing Community Garden SH Mountain Mahogany: Facade CBD Downtown Historic Reno- SH Sugar House Pedestrian CBD United Electric HTF: Housing Trust Fund CBD Artspace Pierpont WCH Avocet Office Building Renovation Loan vations – Boston Building, Improvements Warehouse-Summit Group NT: North Temple Mixed-Use (pg. 34) Adaptive Reuse CBD Boston Store Brooks Arcade Building, WCH Brooklyn Condominiums - SH: Sugar House CBD City Centre Lollin + Karrick Building Phase I Construction CWH Sunrise Metro Apartments CBD Block 57 - Marriott Hotel CBD Triad Center + Devereaux s Pages 60 - 71 WCH: West Capitol Hill (pgs. 44 - 45) s Pages 50 - 59 CBD Netspace Building WTG Second West Apartments DD Grant Tower 2010 House (pgs. 35 - 36) 2000 Reconfiguration WTG: West Temple Gateway CC Canella Building CBD Sidewalk Improvements CBD 400 West Traffic Signals CC Grant Square Condos and Beautification of CBD Poplar Street Pub DD The Road Home Fencing CWH Odyssey House I CBD Utah Theatre Acquisition CBD Salt Palace Expansion CBD Downtown and Main Orpheum and Regent Project CWH Onequa Corner CBD Block 57 - Gallivan Center HTF Taylor Springs Affordable CBD Valley Bank Tower Street Retail Study Streets WCH Marmalade Townhomes Phase III (pgs. 44 - 45) DD Children’s Museum Grant Senior Housing CC Romney Park Plaza DD Aten Renovation DD Serta Mattress Site WTG West Temple Gateway CBD 300 South Sidewalk/Lighting/ DD Intermodal Hub Design CBD Gallivan Center Renovation Senior Housing GD Smith-Layton Office Acquisition Alleyway Improvements Public Art Study DD Sun Bar Site Acquisition GD Artspace Commons Affordable s Pages 22 - 29 CWH Jackson Park Village Renovation CBD 222 Main Office Tower CBD 238 South Edison St. DD Young Fine Arts Studio Housing 1970 Condominiums HTF Odyssey House II DD The Road Home CBD Downtown Public Market CBD Historic Walking Tour Renovation Grant HTF Jefferson School GD Granary District Neighborhood CBD Block 49 (pg. 37) SH Streamline Body Works Study CBD Main Street Beautification Mixed-Income Apartments Workshop Block 58 Dinwoody Plaza-Kilowatt Park CBD Historic Clift Building WCH Colvin Engineering GD 365 W 900 S CBD Flying Objects Public HTF Lorna Doone / Annie Lau- GD The Foundry Pedestrian Access Renovation CBD Tommy's Café Building HTF Bigelow Apartments Art 2.0 rie / Los Gables / Wilshire Block 58 American Plaza CC Koko Kitchen NT Creation of North Temple + CBD Delta Center WCH O.P. Skaggs Market HTF Kingswood Apartments Low-Income Apartments CBD Metro Condominiums + North Temple Viaduct Project (pgs. 26 - 27) (pgs. 38 - 39) SH Brueggers Bagels Public Art WTG Tonguegruven WCH Capitol Villa Affordable HTF Rosewood Affordable Block 69 Bank of Utah Areas SH Irving School House CBD Caputo's ( Historic Nelson Senior Housing Housing DD Intermodel Hub Public Block 68/77 Sidewalk Apartments Renovation Art (pg. 57) WTG West Temple Gateway + Ricks Creamery Building) SH 1049 Associates LLC, Improvements Granary District SH OCM Office Building Renovation WCH Signature Books Renovation DD TRAX Extension s Pages 40 - 49 Redevelopment Strategy Study Block 69 Capitol Theatre (pg. 28) 1990 CBD 373 S. 300 West CBD Salt Lake Brewing WTG Prospect Partners from Delta Center to SH 2100 South/Highland CBD 200 South Road (Historic Henderson Intermodal Hub (pg. 57) Block 69 Symphony Hall/Salt Lake Arts CWH CitiFront Mixed-Income HTF Pugsley Street Rehabili- Drive Street Lighting Improvements Center Plaza (pg. 28) CBD Historic Plandome Hotel Apartments Building) Renovation tation + Housing (pg. 56) Project GD Alvie Carter Renovation Loan CBD Flying Objects Public Art 3.0 Block 58 American Towers Renovation CWH Kathleen Robison Huntsman CBD Pierpont Lofts CBD Denim LLC Rehabilitation SH McClelland Associates (pgs. 26 - 27) SH Sugar House Public Art: DD Liberty Gateway SH Sugar House Center Transitional Housing CBD Library Square TRAX Loan SH Redman Building CC Phillips Plaza Senior Housing Infrastructure Improvements Station Public Art Benches NT North Temple EPA Brownfields CWH Lori's Lunches CBD KUTV Studio WCH Brooklyn Condominiums - (pg. 29) (pg. 57) WCH Marmalade West Study CBD Broadway Center Parking SH McClelland Street CBD Uffens Marketplace Phase II Construction CC St. Mark's Towers Senior CBD Rose Wagner Perform- WTG Kirtland Condos SH Liberty Village CBD Exchange Place Parking Beautification Condominiums WCH Greenspace Design Study Housing (pg. 29) ing Arts Center Public CWH Palmer Court and SH Sugarhouse Crossing CBD Salt Palace Expansion SH Fiddler's Elbow/Salt Lake CC Taufer Park Renovation WTG 900 South Street Improvements Rio Grande Hotel SH Westminster Sugar House CBD Pierpont Midblock Walkway Pizza & Pasta DD 500 West Park Blocks Beautification CBD Shogun Restaurant Single-Room Occupancy Mixed-Use CBD Block 57 - Gallivan Center SH Sherwin-Williams landscape DD Gateway 2001 Building WTG 900 South TRAX Station CBD Walker Center Renovations (pg. 58) CBD Historic Crandall Building Phase I (pgs. 44 - 45) improvements (pgs. 54 - 55) (pg. 57) DD 500 West Utility Under- Renovation SH Wilmington Avenue Land CC Pedestrian Countdown BBS Franklin Covey Baseball Field DD Hong Kong Tea House WTG SNT Enterprises grounding Acquisition Timers DD GREENbike SLC Infrastructure (pgs. 46 - 47) Renovation CBD Dry Powder LLC DD Artspace Bridges Afford- HTF Park Place Mixed-Income GD Granary Row CBD Artspace Rubber Company WCH Reed Avenue Street HTF Jefferson School Apart- able Housing CBD Flying Objects Public Art Housing Affordable Housing Improvements ments (Phase 2) WTG 900 South/200 West Water Series HTF Smith Apartment Project WTG TRAX Line Beautification DD The Gateway Line Extension CBD Block 49 Housing HTF Westgate II Apartments CBD Junior's Tavern (pgs. 54 - 55) SH Sugarmont/Wilmington WTG Blue Copper Coffee + Atlas CBD David Keith Building WTG Jefferson Street Beautification SH 2100 South/McClelland GD Dunn Oil Environmental DD Homewood Suites Realignment Architects (pgs. 70 - 71) CBD Judge Building Loan WTG Washington Street Restaurant Loan Loan DD The Depot WCH Ardmore Place Street SH Sugar House S-Line + Beautification SH Sugar House Public Art CBD Block 57 - American Stores HTF Lincoln Arms + Trolley GD Quiet Zone Reconstruction Greenway (pgs. 64 - 65) SH Commons at Sugar House WCH 324 West 600 North CBD Commercial Club Lane Low-Income SH Sugar House Monument WCH Reed Avenue CBD Broadway Park Lofts (pgs. 48 - 49) Triplex Renovation Apartments Reconstruction Development

8 9 CBD Excellence In the Community WCH Marmalade Block Concert Series & Big Band Retaining Wall s Concerts 2020 & Beyond Pages 74 - 75 DD Green Team Community CBD Union Station Garden DD Alta Gateway Apartments CWH 9th East Lofts Affordable CWH Pamela's Place DD GREENBike Gateway Station Housing (pgs. 68 - 69) Affordable Housing SH Urbana on 11th DD Artspace Macaroni Flats WTG Infinite Scale WCH Bishop Place Building Ren- Affordable Housing CWH The Exchange Affordable ovation DD Salt Lake Central Station Housing CBD GREENBike Pioneer Park Area Plan CBD Paperbox Lofts Station WTG Jefferson Street Cottages + (pg. 74 - 75) CBD Vivint Smart Home Arena MidBlock Walkway WCH Marmalade Mixed-Use Renovation (pgs. 70 - 71) WTG The Charli NT North Temple "NOTE" GD The A-3 Project WTG Spy Hop (pg. 74 - 75) Branding GD Granary District Mural Grant WTG Jefferson Mixed-Use NT North Temple Façade Im- Program CBD The Olive provements Program WCH Preservation at Work: Arctic SH Sugar House Historic Sign Court Historic Home SS Capitol Homes Apartments Preservation Program NWQ Stadler Rail WCH 300 West Streetscape SH Sugar House Monument Plaza WCH The Grove Townhomes at Improvements Renovation (pgs. 64 - 65) Marmalade NT Folsom Corridor SH Wilmington Gardens WTG Alinea Lofts (pgs. 70 - 71) WCH Marmalade Block Urban WCH 300 West Median Infrastruc- GD I-15 North Temple Underpass Park ture (Phase I) Pedestrian Improvements DD Union Pacific Hotel WCH Marmalade Courtyards GD Orchid Dynasty Adaptive (pg. 74 - 75) WCH Preservation at Work: Pugsley Reuse Renovation CBD 255 S. State Street Street Historic Home B70 Regent Street Public Art WTG Central Ninth Beautification GD 901 Gale Street Redevel- Project opment CBD Historic Felt and Clift Building WTG West Montrose Renovations NT West Quarter SH "The Draw" on Parley's Trail DD Station Center Public Art SH Sugarmont Plaza Rede- CBD Mollie + Ollie velopment NT Red Iguana 2 Expansion WTG 900 South Streetscape + WCH Marmalade Branch of the Salt Undergrounding Lake City Public Library Plaza CBD Gallivan Avenue Façade Improvements WTG Central Ninth Market (pgs. 70 - 71) CBD Missing Middle Housing Education CBD Paragon Lofts B70 Regent Street Reconstruction (pgs. 66 - 67) B70 The George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater (pgs. 66 - 67) DD Cicero Group GD Atmosphere Studios Adaptive Reuse GD Fisher Brewing Adaptive Reuse WTG Central Ninth Place

10 11 About Redevelopment Agencies

Most are familiar with the general term “redevelopment” describing the

action or process of developing something again or differently. Some may Historically, redevelopment project areas’ tax bases have grown at twice the rate of surrounding areas that are not designated as even think of redevelopment in more city-specific terms, understanding it project areas. as the rehabilitation or new construction of buildings in an urban area.

But for many people, the concept of an RDAs may also focus efforts on industrial This decrease in tax base drives further To do this work efficiently and entire government agency devoted to areas of a city outside of the downtown disinvestment that, in turn, promotes strategically, RDAs target certain areas redevelopment might be a bit unfamiliar. core. These industrial areas are typically a cycle of urban degeneration. RDAs to focus efforts. These “project areas” Such an entity – a “redevelopment only served by very basic infrastructure intervene to break this cycle by: have been called many things over agency” - typically operates on a city level that is inadequate in attracting and • Facilitating redevelopment of the decades – urban renewal areas, as a type of tool that strategically focuses supporting new investment and underutilized property through redevelopment areas, community on a particular area of a municipality that development. acquisition, clearance, re-planning, reinvestment areas – each describing is experiencing disinvestment or neglect. and/or sale; a designated boundary within a In both cases the end result is a • Investing in core infrastructure, such municipality wherein an RDA prioritizes Traditionally, a redevelopment agency, decrease in the assessed valuation of as streets, lighting, sidewalks; and projects and programs. Redevelopment commonly referred to as an “RDA,” is property, leading to reduced property tax • Providing gap financing in the form projects and programs are designed established by a city to reverse this trend collections for the city itself and all other of loans, grants, reimbursements, to spur additional growth, allowing through investments in buildings and taxing entities, such as school districts, and property discounts to encourage disinvested areas to be reestablished public infrastructure. counties, libraries, and public utilities. private investment. as economically productive centers for business and social activity.

12 13 After the RDA works in a project area financing” (TIF) is described as the further increase tax revenue. The the RDA. After a project area expires, for a number of years, the social value increase, or “increment”, in the property increment generated in a project area is the taxing entities again collect the full and economic potential increases, taxes generated within a project reinvested back into that same project tax revenue, which typically increased Our Redevelopment encouraging businesses and private area, over and above property taxes area for a specified period of time, usually substantially over the period of time the investors to respond with additional generated in that same area prior to the 20-25 years. project area was active. development and improvements that will establishment of the project area. Vision & Practices further build up the area’s vitality. During the life of the project area, the The intent of tax increment financing is taxing entities continue receiving the Property tax increment financing is to pledge future increases in property same amount of property taxes they the primary means by which RDAs tax revenues within project areas to received prior to the establishment of the fund redevelopment and economic fund projects that will result in economic project area, along with any share of the The Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City (RDA) follows the standard ECONOMIC GROWTH development. This “tax increment revitalization and directly, or indirectly, increment they may have negotiated with redevelopment model, doing the majority of our work in and around the We act as a responsible steward of public City’s urban core. It’s our mission to revitalize Salt Lake City’s neighbor- funds, taking a long-term view of investment, return, and property values. hoods and business districts to improve livability, spark economic growth, and foster authentic communities. We serve as a catalyst for strategic COMMUNITY IMPACT development projects that enhance the City’s housing opportunities, com- We prioritize projects and programs that mercial vitality, and public spaces. demonstrate commitment to improving equity and quality of life for residents and businesses in Salt Lake City.

NEIGHBORHOOD VIBRANCY Under the Utah Code Title 17C commercial buildings, economic We cultivate distinct and livable built Community Reinvestment Agencies Act, development, historic preservation, environments that are contextually sensitive, we create and administer community public art, neighborhood business resilient, connected, and sustainable. reinvestment areas (project areas), and districts, environmental remediation, work with community councils, property and infrastructure improvements. Under owners, neighborhood residents, and 17C, we are also authorized to undertake businesses to learn how they would like housing projects citywide, in addition to to see their communities improved. those located within project areas. We are able to contribute up to 20% of tax This community reinvestment comes increment from each project area to fund in many forms, but most commonly affordable housing projects throughout through mixed-income housing, the City.

14 15 We foster a set of core values that collectively support the revitalization of Salt Lake City’s communities.

Guided by these values, we participate in The RDA’s Tax Increment Reimbursement when renovating aging warehouses For example, from the inception of the Salt Lake City’s redevelopment projects in Program helps achieve the RDA’s project and distressed industrial buildings. The Sugar House Project Area in 1986 to its a range of ways, implementing tools. area goals by offering a tax increment Program has facilitated a number of sunset in 2015, the land valuation within reimbursement to developers for building transformative development projects that project area boundaries increased by One such tool is our Loan Program, eligible projects. The RDA will reimburse have increased the number of residents 570%. Collectively, the taxable values which assists property owners in the property owners or developers a portion visiting the Granary District. within project areas* have increased by renovation, rehabilitation, and new of construction costs associated with an average of 10.51% each year. The construction of buildings within project projects that meet project area objectives. In addition to offering financial programs citywide average taxable value increase area boundaries. The Program provides The amount of the tax increment to encourage development, we often per year since 2007 has been 4%. critical gap financing for projects that reimbursement is determined by what the purchase property to market for strategic advance project area goals. We work project generates, and the percentage of redevelopment, particularly to stimulate with project developers and lenders tax increment split between the RDA and private investment, improve community to bridge the funding gap between developer. conditions, and increase economic a project’s economics and market development. We count our “property realities. In support of the RDA’s mission, Focusing specifically on the adaptive acquisition” tool as one of the most we can assume a higher level of risk reuse in one of our most industrial project powerful in the RDA toolbox, as this than traditional lenders to ensure that areas, the Adaptive Reuse Loan Program practice of purchasing underutilized land transformative projects get built. While provides forgivable loans to encourage and working with developers to bring our approach is flexible, we assist the reuse and revitalization of the Granary a variety of commercial and housing

projects that achieve the RDA’s goals District’s unique stock of buildings. The projects to Salt Lake City has led to the *Central Business District, West Temple for affordable housing, placemaking, loans are intended to ease the sometimes substantial growth in the taxable land Gateway, Sugar House, West Capitol Hill, Depot District, Granary District, North Temple sustainability, high quality urban design, daunting cost of the necessary building values within project areas. Viaduct, North Temple, and Block 70. and economic development. code updates local developers face

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Our Impact

The RDA has reinvested a total of more than $530 million back into communities across Salt Lake City, tallying up some notable figures along the way.

PROVIDED DEDICATED $117 million in total loan funding $3.4 million to public art

INVESTED COMMITTED $170 million in $123 million in public improvements tax increment reimbursements

FACILITATED COMPLETED the construction of approximately 349 major 7,000 housing units throughout the city redevelopment projects

18 19 In 1969, the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City (RDA) was created to stimulate economic growth and revitalize the downtown area of Utah’s capital city. This major event in Salt Lake City’s economic history was a long time in the making, and one that would enable the City to grow and thrive for the next 50 years.

1969 During the 1950s, Downtown Salt Lake By the late 1960s, other capital cities City experienced a robust retail trade, but across the nation were utilizing federally declining population throughout the City, sponsored Urban Renewal Program new suburban shopping malls, and aged grants on redevelopment projects structures on small parcels of land posed to revitalize their urban cores, yet a significant impediments to the continued redevelopment strategy within Salt Lake development of Downtown. The interiors City had still not been created. Luckily, of some of the City’s large 10-acre blocks the local redevelopment movement were neglected, weedy tracts scattered regained momentum in 1968 when the with wood shacks and sheds, some University of Utah released a report dating back to the late 1800s. In addition asserting that Salt Lake City had missed to physical development barriers, stunted receiving more than $300 million in housing and rental market and dwindling federal aid since 1965 due to its lack of a sales tax proceeds were leading the redevelopment authority. City down a path to an unsustainable economic future. Thus, in 1969 the Utah Legislature made the redevelopment law more functional, Beginning as early as 1956, efforts and that same year the Salt Lake City were made in the Utah Legislature Commission created Salt Lake City’s to enable the State’s municipalities Redevelopment Agency, drawing from to undertake redevelopment as a two federally funded programs: The mechanism for revitalization. Although Neighborhood Development Act, which the first redevelopment legislation was funded capital improvement projects, and passed by 1965, attempts to establish a the City’s housing rehabilitation program. redevelopment authority in Salt Lake City that year ultimately failed. Redevelopment in Salt Lake City was on its way.

20 21 Project Areas 1970 s

S TEMPLE

BLOCK BLOCK

200 W 77 76 100 S

BLOCK BLOCK 68 69 200 S

BLOCK BLOCK 59 58 MAIN 300 S W TEMPLE

22 23 The first decade of redevelopment in Salt Lake City began modestly. A four-person staff set forth to undertake the first official “urban renewal” s projects in Utah, focusing on enhancing the public environment with midblock connections and improved common areas near the newly con- structed Salt Palace arena and convention center. The overall goal being 1970 to make the area more accessible and better used by the downtown workforce, visiting conventions, and residents.

Using non-cash grants under the directly east and southeast of the Salt then able to expand its focus to include Grant Program through the federal Department of Housing and Urban Palace. new types of projects, including new Housing and Community Development Development’s Urban Renewal Program, construction of commercial, housing, and Act, which empowered redevelopment the RDA started its work on Block 58 In 1974, the RDA received a major boost mixed-use buildings. agencies nationwide to conduct housing (bounded by 200 South, 300 South, when the Utah Legislature followed revitalization within neighborhoods. West Temple, and Main Street) and Block a nationwide trend and approved the Further widening of the RDA’s focus 69 (bounded by 100 South, 200 South, use of tax increment financing to fund occurred with the subsequent enactment West Temple, and Main Street), located redevelopment projects. The RDA was of the Community Development Block

Salt Lake Angels baseball Dinwoody Plaza First federal urban renewal Led Zeppelin performs team changes name to Salt Kilowatt Park Pedestrian Ted L. Wilson becomes Salt Salt Palace Sidewalk Symphony Hall-Salt Lake Phillips Plaza Senior New Orleans Jazz basketball team grant received concert at Salt Palace Lake City Gulls Access Lake City Mayor Improvements Arts Center Plaza American Towers Housing moves to Salt Lake City 1973 1975 1976 1979 1971

Downtown’s Arrow Press Salt Lake City Mayor Jake Utah Legislature approves American Plaza Bank of Utah Capitol Theatre Property Uintah, the City’s first pub- Salt Lake City shifts to St. Mark’s Tower Senior Square becomes home to Garn elected to Senate; use of tax increment Acquisition lic art piece, commissioned non-partisan, Mayor-City Housing RDA offices Conrad Harrison becomes financing to fund redevel- by RDA projects Council form of government Salt Lake City Mayor opment projects projects 1974 1978

24 25 By 1975, the RDA had purchased nearly half of the western side of the block for a American total of approximately $1.5 million, resulting in $130 million in private investment to build three five-story office buildings, Plaza & a 16-story hotel, and two 26-story

1974 condominium towers (American Towers). Towers The addition of the 392 condominiums to the City’s urban core was a critical step in beginning the residential re-stabilization of Downtown, from which many people had moved during the 1950s and 60s in favor The RDA’s first major project was the construction of Block 58’s of less expensive suburban areas. American Plaza. The land assemblage for this project entailed the RDA’s purchase of several parcels on Block 58 over a period of years.

26 27 27 Downtown Senior Housing

Arts Spaces With the 1974 inception of the Federal Community Development Block 1976 Grant Program, a widespread focus on the need for public housing 1979 projects emerged nationwide.

To support Salt Lake County’s development of arts facilities in down- Identifying Salt Lake City’s specific would soon be established as the RDA’s town Salt Lake City, the RDA contributed $240,000 to the County’s need for more affordable housing units Central City Project Area. The 100 units acquisition of the historic Capitol Theatre on 200 South. The Capitol Theatre in the 70s to serve the City’s senior population, at Phillips Plaza provided low-income the RDA partnered with the Housing elderly and disabled households with Authority of Salt Lake City to acquire independent living spaces, including The restoration of the theater’s interior Hall (now Abravenal Hall) and the Salt the land necessary to build Phillips on-site transportation, meal, and and exterior that followed would Lake Arts Center (now Utah Museum of Plaza at 660 S. 300 East, an area that community services. foreshadow the RDA’s continued support Contemporary Art), which sat just north of historic preservation through future of the convention center portion of the projects and programs. The RDA spent Salt Palace. an additional $250,000 to construct the public plaza adjoining Symphony

Phillips Plaza

The Phillips Plaza project led to Between 1975 and 1984 the RDA additional projects to which the RDA contributed $920,000 to the contributed over the next decade, construction of low-income senior including the directly adjacent St. housing developments in and around Marks Towers, the Multi-Ethnic High Downtown. Rise (120 S. 200 West), and Romney Park Plaza (475 E. 900 South).

28 29 The Capitol Theatre Today Romney Park Plaza Project Areas 1980s

Central Business District

Central City

Sugar House

West Temple Gateway

30 31 The RDA’s second decade marked the beginning of officially bounded redevelopment project areas. The densest neighborhoods of the City in s which the RDA had focused its previous efforts were established in 1981 1980 and 1983 as Central City and Central Business District, respectively.

The early-80s signified the period of time middle-income condominiums and sculptures, and fountains. It also took City’s Sugar House Master Plan, and when Salt Lake City’s elected officials and townhomes, and market-rate residences. on one of the City’s first artist live-work the West Temple Gateway Project Area community leaders became increasingly developments. was created in 1987 to assist with the interested in creating more downtown The RDA continued its support of the redevelopment of the automobile sales- housing to promote a more vibrant city City’s arts and culture during this decade, With several projects underway in the and service-oriented commercial and center. With this new administrative with its 1984 inclusion of the City’s Central City and Central Business District residential area directly southwest of direction, the RDA became actively Percent-for-Art Program into its projects, Project Areas, the RDA began looking Downtown. involved in encouraging and supporting allocating 1% of development costs for at neighborhoods outside of Salt Lake the construction of housing in the area, public improvements for art. Artworks City’s urban core. The Sugar House which included low-income senior funded by the RDA or created as part of Project Area was created in 1986 to housing, mixed-income apartments, redevelopment activities included murals, address specific issues outlined in the

City Creek flood diverted down State Street, 1983.

Statutory Allocation Reduction Revenue (SARR) to fund convention centers Central City Project Area Hotel Newhouse Romney Park Plaza Senior Jackson Park Village Block 49 (Utah’s First Central City Project Area and sports facilities ap- Heber Wells Building Artspace Pierpont Mixed-Use City Centre created demolition Salt Palace Expansion Housing Condominiums Pioneer Burial Site) created proved by Utah Legislature 1980 1982 1983 1987

Multi-Ethnic High-Rise “Saltair” on the edge of the First artificial heart surgery Triad Center Development + Percent-for-Art Program Valley Bank Tower Palmer DePaulis becomes Former Salt Lake City May- Central Business District Historic Clift Building Delta Center Senior Housing Great Salt Lake reopens performed at University Historic Devereaux House established Salt Lake City Mayor or Jake Garn flies in space Project Area created Renovation after fire of Utah Restoration 1981 1984 1985 1986 1989

32 33 Pierpont Triad Center Mixed-Use & Devereaux 1982 House 1983

The renovation of the Eccles Browning Warehouse on Pierpont Ave In 1982, the RDA provided a loan to a the space was transformed to provide new non-profit developer to renovate the artists affordable living quarters, working between 300 and 400 West was the first in a long list of adaptive reuse 80,000-square-foot industrial structure studios, and backyard garden plots. The projects the RDA would complete. that had been housing wholesale produce mixed-use project also included office companies since 1910. Preserving its space and retail storefronts. exterior and many interior surfaces,

In 1983, the RDA stepped in to help Salt Lake City redevelop the area around another one of its oldest structures, the 1857 Devereaux House (334 W. South Temple), which had fallen into disrepair and sat amongst a vast amount of undeveloped land on Downtown’s west side.

The RDA worked with a developer to million to finish the restoration of the create a plan for the area that included a Devereaux House, as well as public three-building, mixed-use development improvements to the surrounding streets, called the Triad Center. By 1984, Triad’s installation of drainage systems, and the first phase was completed and consisted creation of a public park. Later phases of 615,000 square feet of office and retail added an amphitheater, ice skating rink, space, with private investment totaling and parking. $65 million. The RDA provided $4.5

34 35 Eccles Browning Warehouse Block 49 1985

Aligning with the City’s collective vision to bring more housing The block’s first 5.5-acre project was Though additional complications Downtown, the RDA focused its efforts on Block 49 in Downtown’s delayed when preliminary readying of the impacted the speed of Block 49’s site revealed early Mormon pioneer and redevelopment in the following years, western area. Bounded by 200 West, 300 West, 300 South, and 400 Native American graves. The RDA hired the RDA’s continued efforts ultimately South, Block 49 was slated to accommodate a variety of projects: archaeologists to carefully search the resulted in the construction of the original entire site, resulting in the excavation housing, commercial, and community amenities. mixed-use vision: affordable residential, and relocation of 33 sets of remains. hotel lodging, and a childcare center.

36 37 Deveraux House at Triad Center 38 1989 largest project up project tolargest that point. of $24 million, the RDA had completed its basketball investment atotal With season. days, opening in time for the 1991-92 an astonishing 15 months and 24 adjacent parking were completed in surroundingits and plaza, additional (nowCenter Arena), Home Vivint Smart and entertainment events. The Delta as Jazz, wellUtah as other sports Basketball franchise, the Association arena National that the City’s would host constructing a20,400-seat partners quickly development got with to work andThe RDA acquired the property newly constructed Triad Center into aworld-class sports arena. a plan to redevelop amassive surface parking lot one block south of the to facilitate convention center and sports facility projects, the RDA created 1989 that permitted redevelopment agencies to collect extended funding Upon the Utah Legislature’s changing of the redevelopment statute in Center Delta for years to come. for years and drivercommunity economic asset standards, and keep the arena as a safety, security, and energy-efficiency that would bring the up facility to current to help fund a$125 million renovation H. Miller Arena Corporation the Larry with Increment Reimbursement agreement the RDAconstruction, entered into aTax Center’s completing after the Delta In 2016, approximately 25 years 39 Project Areas 1990 s

Baseball Stadium

Central Business District

Central City

Depot District

Granary District

Sugar House

West Capitol Hill

West Temple Gateway

40 41 The 1990s represented a time of significant growth and change for the RDA. While the Utah Legislature’s changes to the Utah Neighborhood s Development Act in 1993 reconfirmed the idea of conventional redevel- opment serving a public purpose, the changes also put restrictions on the time frame during which redevelopment agencies could exercise eminent 1990 domain. The 1993 legislative change also empowered redevelopment agencies to become more involved in developing housing within their community, allowing up to 20% of available tax increment to be used for affordable housing.

Between 1993 and 1999 the RDA To obtain third-party perspective and challenging development-related issues. The RDA also invested $12.4 million into assisted in a number of affordable community representation on project The latter part of the 1990s brought Main Street’s beautification, including housing projects, including: Artspace development, the RDA established the about the RDA’s Neighborhood Business substantial infrastructure improvements, Rubber Company, Sedona, Citifront, Redevelopment Advisory Committee Loan Program, which facilitated façade additional street lighting, public seating Odyssey House, and Kathleen Robison (RAC), an organization comprised of Salt renovations, parking improvements, and and art, upgraded landscaping, and new Hunstman transitional housing. In addition Lake City residents with architectural, electrical and structural upgrades for a wayfinding kiosks. to affordable housing, the RDA also spent design, financial, construction, and legal number of small local businesses in RDA the 1990s facilitating the development of expertise. RAC still stands today as a project areas. By 1999, this included some of Salt Lake City’s most beloved and valuable group to which the RDA turns three additional areas: West Capitol Hill, enduring gathering spaces. for recommendations on specific and Depot District, and Granary District.

Jefferson + Washington Street Improvements (SARR) to fund convention Redevelopment Advi- Salt Lake City announced Tax Increment Kathleen Robison centers and sports Tornado hits Historic Plandome sory Committee (RAC) Salt Palace Pierpont Avenue Franklin Covey Base- Artspace Rubber Company as site for 2002 Winter Sedona Affordable Block 57 – West Capitol Hill Proj- Block 57 - Gallivan Main Street Reimbursement Huntsman Transitional facilities approved by Utah Historic Crane Hotel Monaco Downtown Hotel Renovation established Expansion Midblock Walkway ball Field Affordable Housing Olympic Games Housing Marriott Hotel ect Area created Center Phase III Beautification Program established Housing established Legislature Building Renovation Renovation Salt Lake City 1990 1991 1995 1996 1997 1999

Sugar House Center Infra- Deedee Corradini RDA moves office to Block 57 - Block 49 - The Historic Judge Building Block 57 – Pioneer Park Public Tire Town Condos Odyssey House Irving School House Neighborhood Busi- CitiFront Mixed-Income Depot District Commons at Granary District Project Hidden Hollow structure Improvements becomes Salt Lake City-County Building Gallivan Palladio Affordable Façade Renovation Gallivan Center Phase II Improvements Adaptive Reuse Apartments ness Loan Program Apartments Project Area created Sugar House Area created City Mayor Center Phase I Housing established 1992 1993 1994 1998

42 43 public improvements to complement the upgrades, as well as the construction of Gallivan Center. In 2003, local television a new multi-purpose building facing 100 Block 57: Gallivan Center station KUTV received a renovation South. The RDA’s 2015 improvements to loan from the RDA to relocate its the retail storefronts on Gallivan Avenue broadcasting facilities to the sidewalk- gave way to a new host of local eateries, facing ground floor space of the Wells establishing the street as a lunching

1993 Fargo Tower, creating an interactive niche for the daytime workforce, and experience for Main Street pedestrians. creating a destination for Downtown visitors in the evening. In 2010, after more than a decade of heavy public use, the Gallivan Center One of the RDA’s largest investments in its Central Business District underwent a renovation project that Project Area has been the redevelopment of Block 57 (bounded by State included substantial infrastructure Street, Main Street, 200 South, and 300 South) into a multi-faceted repair, ice rink reconfiguration, amphitheater expansion and technical project that spans decades, with the majority of its construction activity occurring in the 1990s. The RDA’s acquisition of properties on Block 57 began in the 1980s, with a plan for a three-acre urban plaza, construction

of a new hotel, and renovation of a historical building finalized by 1989. Gallivan Avenue

Beginning with the construction of Upon the Gallivan Center’s completion the One Utah Center office tower and and activation during the 2002 Olympic parking garage in 1990, Block 57 Winter Games, the RDA continued to Brooks Arcade Building was well on its way to transformation invest in Block 57 with its facilitation by 1993 when the RDA completed of the Marriott Hotel development on the construction of the public space the block’s northeast corner, and its component planned for the interior essential role in the rehabilitation of the of the block, the John W. Gallivan historic Brooks Arcade Building on the Utah Center (commonly known as the corner of 300 South and State Street. “Gallivan Center”). Phases II and III followed, and by the end of the decade The RDA’s diverse investment in the Gallivan Center included an array of Block 57 catalyzed additional adjacent unique public art projects, performance development, in which the RDA also was stage and amphitheater, ice rink, green involved. The former American Stores, space for outdoor recreation, wayfinding, now the Wells Fargo Tower, preserved and retail storefronts on the adjacent 25% of its property with public midblock street, Gallivan Ave. easements, as well as parking and other

44 45 45 Ice Skating at Gallivan Center The Gallivan Center, post-renovation Franklin Covey Field 1993 1993

In 1993, the RDA joined with Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, and private entities to construct a new field and stadium to replace Salt Lake City’s minor league baseball stadium. Originally built in 1915, and then reconstructed in 1947 after a devastating fire, Derks Field had fallen into disrepair with sections of its bleachers officially condemned. Built on the same site as Derks at 1300 South and West Temple, the new Franklin Covey Field (now Smith’s Ballpark) was made possible through a variety of public and private funds, including $5.8 million committed by the RDA.

Through the creation and adoption of reduce the impact on the adjacent the 17-acre Salt Lake City Baseball residential neighborhoods. This multi- Stadium Neighborhood Development agency, public-private project created Plan, the RDA not only funded a a major recreational anchor within the substantial part of the stadium adjacent residential and commercial structure, but also assisted in the neighborhoods. construction of a surface parking lot immediately north of the stadium to

46 47 47 Commons at Sugar House & 1998 Hidden Hollow

Having successfully completed substantial infrastructure improvements in between 1100 and 1300 East, as well as a number of renovation projects with small businesses along 2100 South, in the late-90s the RDA set its sights on creating the heart of the Sugar House Business District through a unique commercial-natural area development.

Funded in-part by the RDA’s new Tax By Hidden Hollow’s completion in 1999, Increment Reimbursement Program, the RDA had invested approximately the 15-acre Commons at Sugar House $750,000 towards its preservation and Project not only fulfilled a commercial rehabilitation, including landscaping, purpose, but also served the community. installation of irrigation, overhead and The heavily landscaped project provided pedestrian lighting, observation deck ample underground and surface along Parley’s Creek, and a naturally parking, accommodating visitors of the terraced amphitheater. New pathways, adjacent Sprague Branch of the Salt bridges, boardwalks, and trails Lake City Public Library. It also linked throughout the area provided additional to the Hidden Hollow Natural Area on connectivity. which the RDA had been working with the community for years, including a group of motivated eco-conscious youngsters, Kids Organized to Protect our Environment (The KOPE Kids).

48 49 49 Project s Areas 2000

Central Business District

Central City

Depot District

Granary District

Sugar House

West Capitol Hill

West Temple Gateway

50 51 As Utah’s capital city was preparing to host the Winter Olympic Games in February of 2002, a state-wide examination of its mass transit, housing, s and recreational opportunities commenced. With Salt Lake City now in the national and international spotlight, the RDA spent the next decade flexing its tax increment financing muscles to play an increasing role in 2000 some of the City’s most transformative mixed-use (Gateway), transporta- tion (TRAX), and housing (Metro Condominiums) projects.

Also keeping an eye on Salt Lake City’s Trolley Lane Buildings. It also managed Board of Directors and Taxing Entity critical housing and revitalization needs. history, the RDA participated in the the restoration of Sugar House’s iconic Committee authorized an extension of the One such program was the RDA’s Main renovation of several of Downtown monument, which had deteriorated since Central Business District Project Area in Street Grant Program, which allocated and Central City’s historic structures, its construction in 1930. 2004. With a new sunset year of 2040, money to new and existing Main Street including the Boston, Brooks Arcade, the Central Business District was now business owners. Lollin, Karrick, Henderson, Nelson To continue addressing the perpetually poised to benefit from new projects and Ricks Creamery, Lincoln Arms, and changing needs of Downtown, the RDA’s programs that would address Downtown’s

Historic Nelson Historic Boston, Ross C. Anderson Ricks Creamery Lincoln Arms Brooks Arcade, Capitol Villa Main Street Jefferson Children’s Miracle becomes Salt & Henderson Rose Wagner Perform- + Trolley Lane Lollin + Karrick Affordable Central Business Grant Library School Redman Quiet Zone + Washington United Electric Ralph Becker Network Hospitals Lake City Building ing Arts Center Public Artspace Bridges Low-Income Utah Symphony Building Senior Housing KUTV Taufer Park Hong Kong Tea District Project Area Program Square Onequa Corner Mixed-Income Building 900 South Railroad Track Street Town Warehouse-Summit becomes Salt Metro 500 West Utility Headquarters Mayor Renovations Improvements Affordable Housing Apartments & Opera Facility Renovations Renovation Main Street Studio Renovation House Renovation extended launched Condominiums Mixed-Use Apartments Renovation TRAX Station Reconfiguration Homes Group Adaptive Reuse Lake City Mayor Condominiums Undergrounding Renovation 2000 2001 2004 2008 2009

Downtown and Main Library Square TRAX Walker Center Ren- The Gateway Fairmont Salt Lake City The Road Home Pugsley Street Uffens 500 West Sugar House Salt Lake Poplar Intermodal Hub Lorna Doone / West Capitol Launch of Flying Sugar House 300 South West Temple 222 Main Office Palmer Court + Park Place People’s Street Retail Study Station Public Art ovation Public Pool hosts the XIX Renovation Grant Owner-Occupied Marketplace Park Blocks Public Art Community Street Design Study Annie Laurie Hill Greens- Objects Public Monument Pedestrian Gateway Tower Rio Grande Ho- Mixed-Income Portable Improvements Olympic Housing Condominiums College Pub / Los Gables pace Study Art Series Reconstruction Improvements Alleyway tel Single-Room Housing Community Winter Games Property / Wilshire Improvements Occupancy Garden 2002 2003 Acquisition 2005 Low-Income 2006 2007 Renovations Apartments

52 53 54 2001 a children’s museum, planetarium, and large public plaza. office, lodging, and undergroundparking. The Gateway would also house development that would feature space for retail, entertainment venues, station would home soon be to The Gateway, amixed-use, mixed-income ing as arail yard and passenger unused acres previously serv well underway. The nearly 40 DistrictDepot Project Area was Downtown in the RDA’s new project on the west side of the planBy for 2000, amajor Beginning of environmental remediation Gateway The - historic Union Pacific Depot on the east east historic Unionon the Depot Pacific parking. Incorporating and renovating the for the underground costs construction of the the public and plaza aportion numerous elements, including project for increment reimbursements tax remediation ofthe site, the RDA provided environmental and assessment in participating the extensive After The Gateway, 2019 Gateway, The locations. tenants theirUtah to open first-ever landscape by luring many national retail bringing new life economic to the local while to the neighborhood’snod past, the Gatewayside gave ofthe property, community, and cultural arts, events. Lake City,Salt hosting of through its ofDowntown Grande west neighborhood to the RioIt continues to bring activity as anrebirth entertainment destination. Today, the Gateway is experiencing a 55 55 Pugsley East, the first phase of the it partnered with the non-profit Pugsley Street project, marketed six organization Preservation Utah (formerly Pugsley single-family homes to non-profit known as Utah Heritage Foundation) to TRAX developers for renovation. Salt Lake rehabilitate a small, historic home, also Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) located on Pugsley Street, launching Street agreed to renovate the homes and what would become known as the Partnership 2003 2003 resell them for owner occupancy. The Preservation at Work Program. This second phase, Pugsley West, included program successfully rehabilitates historic the construction of nine new single- homes and provides neighborhoods with family homes, which were developed by additional single-family housing stock by After working for years to acquire 20 residential rental properties NHS and Salt Lake City’s Housing and working with community partners to learn The 2000s decade marked the RDA’s increased participation in trans- Neighborhood Development Division historic renovation skills though on-site, on and around Pugsley Street (located on the block between 500 (HAND). Six of the Pugsley East and West hands-on, educational workshops. The portation projects that would serve the people living and working in the and 600 North, and 300 and 400 West), in 2000 the RDA began a homes were sold at 80% AMI. RDA and Preservation Utah completed neighborhoods that have benefitted from RDA investment for the past the rehabilitation of the second transformative two-phase project in its West Capitol Hill Project Area. 30 years. The RDA has provided financial support to a number of Utah The RDA’s affection for supporting Preservation at Work House in 2018 Pugsley Street had long-suffered from physical decline and high affordable housing projects in the historic when it cut the ribbon on 528 N. Arctic Transit Authority (UTA) light rail system projects, including its $2.45 crime rates. The RDA’s goal was to improve housing in the area and neighborhoods of its West Capitol Hill Court in West Capitol Hill’s Marmalade million allocation for a portion of the design and construction of a 2003 The RDA also contributed over $1 million This work set the stage for another TRAX Project Area has never waned. In 2012, neighborhood. toward the construction of the 900 partnership in 2010 when UTA and the TRAX line extension from its terminus at 400 West and South Temple increase owner-occupancy to add stabilization. South TRAX Station on 200 West in RDA constructed a light rail line between to Downtown’s multi-modal transportation center, the Salt Lake City its West Temple Gateway Project Area. Salt Lake Central Station and Salt Lake Intermodal Hub. The project included the construction of three new This was the first station to be built in a City International Airport along North neighborhood, sparking future transit- Temple Boulevard. TRAX stations and several pieces of art at the Hub, now known as Salt oriented development (TOD) in the area. Lake Central Station.

56 57 Palmer Court & Children’s Rio Grande Hotel Miracle Network 2008 Hospitals HQ 2008

In April 2007, the RDA provided Shelter the Homeless II with a Palmer Court continues to provide The next year, the RDA would embark on permanent housing for chronically its second SRO project, the Rio Grande $3 million grant to assist in the acquisition and renovation of a former homeless men, women, and families that Hotel in the Depot District Project Area. hotel at 999 S. Main Street. The terms of the arrangements guaranteed would otherwise use the shelter system The RDA funded $4.25 million in repairs that 60 weekly rental single-room occupant (SRO) units would be as a long-term housing option. to the historic hotel and engaged a private operator to provide 49 weekly rental SRO provided for 25 years. units for low-income individuals.

In 2008, the RDA provided a $2.5 million renovation loan to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals to transform a commercial building previously used as a bank into the non-profit organization’s international headquarters.

At the time, this was the largest brought new activity to the edge of the investment the RDA had made in the project area, and utilized the then-newly West Temple Gateway Project Area. created 900 South TRAX station. Today, Underutilized and vacant for years, the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals still four-story building was now home to a occupies the space. team of committed professionals, who

58 59 Project Areas 2010 s

Block 70

Central Business District

Central City

Depot District

Granary District

North Temple

North Temple Viaduct

Northwest Quadrant

Sugar House

West Capitol Hill

West Temple Gateway

60 61 The fallout from the economic downturn of 2008 gave the RDA the opportunity to heavily utilize its acquisition tool to secure property around Salt Lake City, purchas- s ing underutilized parcels in Depot District, Central Business District, and West Tem- ple Gateway Project Areas. With the volatile real estate market still hindering private development, the RDA spent the early years of the decade formulating strategic 2010 plans that would put the purchased properties into the development mix when the time was right, and focusing on small-scale development, and placemaking proj- ects in the meantime.

Also at this time, the expertise of RDA Mid-decade, as the economic pendulum The RDA also invested in outreach which sparked an onslaught of adaptive staff was broadening to include those started to re-center itself, more private activities and community spaces reuse development (Atmosphere, with engineering, landscape architecture, development opportunities on which the anchored by shipping containers in its Fisher Brewing, and A-3 Project) and urban design, planning, construction, RDA could partner started to emerge. Granary District Project Area. These drew additional businesses to the area and communications backgrounds. This ranged between one of the largest efforts yielded valuable community by off-setting costs of the renovation This diversified approach to project projects in the RDA’s history – the engagement and input on the vision for of auto garages and warehouses to management facilitated an elevated level Eccles Theater in tandem with the the area and rebooted the Granary’s serve new purposes. In 2018, the RDA of expertise within the RDA that lent reconstruction of historic Regent Street – historical manufacturing reputation, commissioned local artists to adorn the itself well to projects with environmental to the small, but catalytic, neighborhood- differentiating it with a small-scale twist blank sides of such industrial buildings remediation, xeriscaping, urban forestry, scale Central Ninth Market that firmly that served a dual production/retail with large-scale mural artwork that public utility, and other technical established a business center in the West purpose. This identity was reinforced creatively reflected the history of the elements. Temple Gateway Project Area. when the RDA created the Granary neighborhood. District Adaptive Reuse Loan Program,

The George S. & Historic Sugar House Sugar House Historic Sign Dolores Doré Eccles I-15 North North Temple North Temple Crandall “S Line” Preservation Program & Vivint Smart Marmalade Branch Theater + Regent 9 Line and State Green Team Artspace The Grove Temple Underpass Utah Theatre Project Area Artspace Commons EPA Brown- Building Granary Row + Streetcar + Alta Gateway Sugar House Monument Home Arena Red Iguana 2 of the Salt Lake City Street Street Project Community Macaroni Flats Jefferson Street Cottages Granary District Townhomes at Pedestrian Regent Street Acquisition established Affordable Housing fields Study Renovation Neighborhood Visioning Greenway Apartments Plaza Renovation Renovation 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2016 Expansion Public Library Reconstruction Area plans approved 2017 Garden Affordable Housing 2018 + Midblock Walkway Mural Grant Program Marmalade 2019 Improvements Public Art

North Temple Viaduct Gallivan Center Block 70 Project Area Liberty Village + GREENbike SLC Infrastruc- Blue Copper Coffee + Broadway North Temple Preservation Jackie Biskupski Historic Felt and Clift Gallivan Avenue Atmosphere Studios Central Ninth 9th East Lofts Northwest Quadrant The A-3 Project Stadler Rail Preservation at Work: Alinea Orchid Dynasty Project Area estab- Renovation established Sugarhouse Crossing ture, Gateway Station, and Atlas Architects Park Lofts “NOTE” Branding + at Work: becomes Salt Building Renovations Façade + Fisher Brewing Gra- Market Affordable Project Area Granary District Arctic Court Historic Lofts Adaptive Reuse lished established Pioneer Park Station Façade Pugsley Street Lake City Mayor Improvements nary District Adaptive Housing established Adaptive Reuse Home Renovation

2015 Improvements Historic Home Reuse Renovations Renovation Program

62 63 events that included nearly an acre Between 2010 and 2015, the RDA of open space, new public art, and invested $6.2 million to expand the Sugar House Streetcar, an interactive water feature that paid transportation, green space, and public homage to the site’s original use as a gathering areas in the heart of Sugar waterway. A public event in June 2015 House, which resulted in a subsequent Greenway & Monument Plaza gathered the community to celebrate estimated investment of $200 million in

2015 the plaza’s completion and the thriving private projects. Sugar House business district that surrounded it.

With a Sugar House Project Area sunset date of 2015 on the horizon, in 2012 the RDA joined with the City’s Transportation Division, Utah Transit Authority, and South Salt Lake City to construct the 2-mile long Sugar House Streetcar line, later dubbed the “S Line.” Completed in 2014, the new transit line made a vital east-west connection between Sugar House’s commercial center and the Wasatch Front’s mass transit grid at the streetcar’s western terminus at the Central Point TRAX station.

To complement the new corridor and Building on the addition of the S Line, provide an asset to the community, Sugar House Greenway, and mixed-use the RDA worked with stakeholders to redevelopment of Sugar House’s Granite plan and develop the Sugar House Block, the RDA culminated its 28 years Greenway, a linear park running parallel in the Sugar House community by taking to the streetcar line from 500 East to on the funding, design, and renovation McClelland Street featuring a pedestrian of Sugar House’s Monument Plaza. and bike path, public plazas, and After input from the community, in fall extensive landscaping. The construction of 2014, the RDA worked tirelessly to of the Greenway added five acres transform the plaza previously bisected of public space to the Sugar House by a roadway into a highly walkable, neighborhood. public space for pedestrians and special

64 65 65 The George S. Dolores & Doré Eccles Theater + Regent Street 2016

When Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County identified the need for a Broadway-style theater to elevate the Capitol City’s cultural core and pro- vide greater arts access across the Wasatch Front, the RDA wasted no time in serving a vital role in securing and administering the funding of such a venue. This entailed the establishment of the Block 70 Community Reinvestment Area (bounded by Main Street, State Street, 100 South, and 200 South), and a combination of private funding and support from the Salt Lake City School District, Salt Lake City, and Salt Lake County. The RDA was also responsible for finding the theater’s location at 131 S. Main, taking the project from the early feasibility studies to site selection to acquisition, as well as managing the entire construction process.

On October 21, 2016, the state-of-the- which included the following art George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles improvements: “festival street” features As development of the Eccles Theater City’s first immigrant populations, and Theater opened, featuring a 2,500-seat such as covered walkways and and neighboring 111 Main office tower the Salt Lake Tribune was headquartered main performance hall, an intimate black pedestrian amenities; a public multi-use commenced, the RDA championed there for more than 80 years. Drawing box theater, event and rehearsal spaces, urban plaza; ground-floor retail spaces; improving the public spaces adjacent from the street’s history, the RDA lead a five-story grand lobby, patron and and a secure, lighted, art-lined midblock to the theater, most notably Regent its reconstruction and engaged a skilled donor lounges, an upper outdoor terrace walkway to Main Street, allowing for easy Street, the long-neglected midblock design team to implement improvements overlooking Main Street, and a galleria transit access and inviting sightlines into street running parallel to Main Street in through a process driven by significant connecting the theater to the adjacent the center of the block. between 100 and 200 South. One of public input and involvement from 111 Main office tower. the City’s first midblock streets, historic property owners and Block 70 Regent Street was home to many of the stakeholders. Not long after, the Regent Street Reconstruction Project was completed,

66 67 67 The George S. Dolores and Doré Eccles Theater 9th East Lofts 2017

In 2012, the RDA purchased the vacant Kiwanis-Felt Boys and Girls Club recreation building and .57-acre property with a vision of creating a place that would serve the surrounding community. The RDA iden- tified the site as optimal for a transit-oriented, mixed-use development because of its central location in between the University of Utah and Downtown, and half-block away from the TRAX light rail system.

The RDA prepared the site for Today, 9th East Lofts is strengthening redevelopment by conducting careful and supporting the community through environmental remediation to ensure the affordability, easy access to public transit, safety of the land, and also coordinated and ground-floor commercial spaces with Salt Lake City Public Utilities to that activate a common, outdoor plaza. relocate the Jordan-Salt Lake canal out The building’s common areas feature from under the future construction site. salvaged hardwood gymnasium floors, This was a complicated process that was backstops, scoreboards, and lockers completed in early 2014, upon which from the original Boys & Girls Club in the the property was sold at a substantial common space. Of the six-story building’s discount to the Housing Authority of Salt 68 units, 54 are rented at no more than Lake City for redevelopment. 60% of the area median income and 22 accommodate special needs residents. After a groundbreaking in August of 2015, construction began and less than two years later the 9th East Lofts mixed- income, mixed-use project was complete.

68 69 69 In 2015, construction on a small- At the same time the Central Ninth Circling back to its very first midblock kind walkway in the City, as its design Central Ninth scale commercial cornerstone for the Market was being built, the RDA was project that connected Dinwoody Plaza accommodated the building of new neighborhood began. The 9,216-square- involved with the City’s Planning Division to Killowatt Park on Downtown’s Block residential cottage homes to look upon foot Central Ninth Market building was in changing the neighborhood’s zoning 58, the RDA continued its long-standing the public pedestrian space. Completed Neighborhood designed to fit into the neighborhood, to accommodate more density, while still goal to make the City’s neighborhoods in 2018, the six, neighborhood-scaled featuring a horizontal mixed-use design preserving character of scale. With the more pedestrian-friendly and walkable houses facing the walkway provide a local

2018 that preserved visibility from the street. new form-based zoning in place, the RDA by embarking on a public space project presence to help keep the new walkway Central Ninth Market is now home to five was able to facilitate the new construction that would create a midblock walkway amenity active and safe. locally owned small businesses and one of a single-family home featuring a from Central Ninth’s residential Jefferson non-profit, and has successfully solidified detached dwelling unit (DDU) in an effort Street to the 900 South TRAX station on By the mid-2010s, the RDA had steadily invested nearly two decades Central Ninth’s commercial corridor. to stabilize Jefferson Street with owner- 200 West. The resulting Jefferson Street of time and funding to revitalize West Temple Gateway’s public spaces occupied housing. Midblock Walkway was the first-of-its- through TRAX line beautification and 900 South station infrastructure, alleyway improvements, public art, and a community garden. It had also participated in residential projects, including the Second West Apartments and Washington Street Town Homes. In the commercial realm, the RDA-supported Atlas Architects / Blue Copper Coffee Project (175 W. 900 South) was warmly received by the area’s residents and business owners once it was completed in 2013.

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This led to the RDA working with the community to establish a vision for the rising neighborhood business district along 900 South from West Temple to 300 West, including its branding as “Central Ninth.” In its outreach work with Central Ninth-adjacent residents and property owners, the RDA determined the best strategy for establishing a neighborhood commercial center was to focus on small, local businesses.

70 71 71 Jefferson Street Midblock Walkway Central Ninth Market Project s Areas 2020 & Beyond

Block 70

Central Business District

Granary District

North Temple

North Temple Viaduct

Northwest Quadrant

State Street

West Capitol Hill

9 Line

72 73 2020s & Beyond

Union Station Hotel Paperbox Lofts

The RDA will continue investing in Salt Lake City, focusing on redevel- By the time 2020 begins, the largest The RDA will continue its substantial opment projects in its 10 active project areas: 9 Line, Block 70, Central public art installation in the City’s support of citywide affordable housing Business District, Depot District, Granary District, North Temple, North history will call Block 70’s Regent projects, with $23.8 million of funding Street home, and the Granary District already committed to projects that Temple Viaduct, Northwest Quadrant, State Street, and West Capitol Hill. will have welcomed another adaptive include affordable residential units Many future projects are already underway. reuse renovation project. Soon after, in the pipeline, including Pamela’s the West Temple Gateway Project Place, Paperbox Lofts, The Exchange, Area will serve as the headquarters Capitol Homes Apartments, Overni- for two organizations – a large-scale ter Motel redevelopment, and 255 S. design firm and a non-profit digital State Street. media group. The Union Station Hotel

historic restoration project is slated Spy Hop to break ground in the Depot District Project Area in 2020.

Pamela’s Place The Exchange Affordable Marmalade 300 West Streetscape Marmalade Block 100 South Public Sugarmont Plaza Affordable Housing Housing Mixed-Use Spy Hop The Olive Improvements Urban Park 255 S. State Street West Montrose Improvements Redevelopment Grand Boulevards 2020

Infinite Scale 300 West Street The Charli Jefferson Capitol Homes Apartments Folsom Corridor Union Pacific 901 Gale Street Overniter Motel Station Center 900 South Improvements Mixed-Use Affordable Housing Hotel Redevelopment Redevelopment Streetscape + Undergrounding

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Special thanks to Ed Kosmicki for his photographic and sourcing talent.

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