Salt Lake City’s Redevelopment Agency has bought a vacant 30-foot-wide parcel that hugs the west end of the so-called “Sugar Hole,” with a vision to create a permanent public pathway expected to lure pedestrians and resurrect the area’s street life.
The mid-block crossing, stretching from 2100 South (at 1078 East) south to a soon-to-be-created “Elm Street,” will have benches, trees and storefronts lining both sides. Negotiations played out privately for months before the City Council, sitting as the Rockwood Investment Associates Board, closed the deal in a 6-0 vote earlier this month.
On the other side of the 30-foot-wide plaza, developer Craig Mecham plans to fill the vacant corner of 2100 South and Highland Drive with 204 apartments atop 44,000 square feet of retail and restaurant spaces as well as three levels of underground parking. The ground-level shops and eateries would front Highland Drive and 2100 South. Salt Lake Tribune
