Liberty Sky: 24 stories and 300 residential units.Main Street Apartments: 31 stories and 400 residential units.It’s safe to say it’s rare to have this many skyscrapers under development at one time, especially given the amount of high-rise residential units being built at one time. While the projects are spaced out, Salt Lake City’s skyline will grow with a number of towers started within a year or two of each other. It’s been a decade since the 23-story Regent opened in City Creek. Main, the 23-story tower that’s home to the Eccles Theater. It’s been five years since developers finished 111 S.
Salt Lake City has a handful of buildings over 200 feet tall, but historically they’ve been built few and far between.
The future site of three new towers, with Liberty Sky (center), 95 State (far left) and Kensington Tower (center left, Carl’s Jr.). Salt Lakers should also get used to the sight of cranes on the skyline that will be replaced by permanent, tall buildings. With the newest addition, nearly 3,000 units - space for perhaps 5,000 or more people - are either under construction or have recently been completed in the Downtown area. It will continue two ongoing trends Downtown: new, skyline-altering skyscrapers, and an impending swell of people living in the city center. The Worthington tower “builds on the vision of community leaders who developed the goals of programs like ‘Downtown Rising’ and is one step forward in ensuring Salt Lake City remains the primary cultural, financial, legal and government center of Utah,” Matt Lusty, a representative of the group, told Building Salt Lake on Wednesday. That’s the registered name of the three developers building another skyscraper on the capital city’s skyline. While the new tower doesn’t have a name, we’re calling it the Worthington tower. It will bring 359 residential units to the area on 26 of the 31 stories, leaving 5,800 square feet of space for ground-floor retail and 359 parking stalls on four stories above ground. The tower that will replace the existing Broadway Place will be 31 stories tall. But most details about what would replace the existing building in the Downtown zone have been unknown until now. Retailers in the existing two-story building on the northeast corner of 200 East 300 South told us months ago they faced eviction by this summer. Salt Lake City’s Downtown has long since entered a residential building boom, and we now know details about the next project that will add to the city’s rapidly changing skyline.