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THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE – Despite its pitted heart, Sugar House has grown a new limb — and this one is designed to support life.
Oozing urban-living modernity and majestic views, the 29-unit Urbana on Eleventh condominium tower — a block north of the cratered retail hub — is just a few months from completion.
Two years after developer Craig Mecham bulldozed the business district’s eclecticism, surviving Sugar House business owners predict Urbana could revive the area’s weakened but willful pulse.
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THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE – It only took an hour.
After a 2–year saga – neighboring merchants threatened lawsuits and neighbors bemoaned the “death” of Sugar House – a development that forever will transform one of the capital’s iconic neighborhoods has won unanimous approval.
With little of the drama that defined the Granite Block controversy, the Salt Lake City Planning Commission on Wednesday green-lighted developer Craig Mecham’s vision for the southwest corner of 2100 South and Highland Drive.
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE – Wal-Mart unspooled its best pitch, and the Planning Commission remained passive, but a majority of east-side residents pooh-poohed the retailer’s request to plop a supercenter near the mouth of Parleys Canyon in Sugar House.
Some 65 residents took turns today debating Wal-Mart’s plea for a zoning change to bulldoze Kmart and replace it with a 120,000-square-foot “hypermarket” at 2705 E. Parleys Way. They pointed to Wal-Mart’s familiar foibles: truck traffic, clogged roads, late-night noise and light pollution. But several residents also argued Wal-Mart’s promise to build green if allowed to build anew is disingenuous since a rebuild is cheaper than a remodel.
“Do they want to build green for the community or do they want the green for their pockets?” asked Sarah Carlson.
DESERET MORNING NEWS – SugarHouse Coffee once hugged the southwest corner of Highland Drive and 2100 South. Since October, though, employees have served up Rimini Coffee in new digs across the street.
About a week ago, they watched as bulldozers leveled the building that was the shop’s home for five years and the home of Blue Cat Coffee before that.
UTAHSTORIES.COM – 100-year-old historic Sugar House buildings razed make way for Craig Mecham’s new development project.
Sugar House suddenly has much of its wonderful weirdness boxed up by boards – and Ralph Becker says Dave Buhler helped hammer the nails.
When Sugar House residents learned developers were coming to town, many feared it was the end of their favorite shops—from Pib’s Exchange consignment clothing to Sugarhouse Coffee, the longtime anchor of the 2100 South and Highland Drive intersection.
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