the hub 2005

Depot area set to bloom Downtown's movement westward started decades ago, but there is more excitement with the construction of an intermodal hub at 200 S. 600 West. Once completed in 2007, it will bring more than 5,000 daily transit riders to downtown's new doorstep via TRAX, commuter and Amtrak rail, as well as UTA and Greyhound buses. With the giant Gateway development already in place, city officials see an area that is poised for takeoff. IBI's Ray Whitchurch envisions a Barcelona-like Las Ramblas walkway on 300 South between the hub and Rio Grande Depot, filled with restaurants, shops and people-watching opportunities. The proposed raising of City Creek to street level and out to the Jordan River might spawn even more development. The city hopes developers will take advantage of historic warehouses and proceed on a small scale, avoiding the massive, homogenous look of Gateway. Artspace will do that with its $5.5 million City Center project by renovating a 1900-era building on 500 West that was ZCMI's first warehouse. Now called City Center Self Storage, it will house 18 rental townhomes and artist work space. Salt Lake City's Depot District, between North Temple and 400 South from 400 West to Interstate 15, seems poised for development in coming years.; Paul Fraughton/The Salt Lake Tribune [Jessica Norie], Artspace's executive director, shows a typical layout for planned housing in the City Center project. Her group will renovate a 1900-era building on 500 West to create rental units and artist work space. The Salt Lake Tribune. 24 September 2004. Abstract. 600 South 300 South 500 West
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Looking toward the future

Building Uses according to Polk City Directory Institutional Mixed uses
70 80

Number of entries

60

Hotel/Dense Residential Dense Industrial Commercial

50

40

30

20

Industrial Residential
1955 1965 1975 1985 1995 2005

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Year

2005 marks the end of 50 years of decline for the area surrounding what will be the Intermodal Hub. This is visible in this chart, created through an analysis of the changing number and type of the entries in the Polk City Directories for the streets in the area. In 1955, the area still supported a large number of residences, many factories, warehouses, and other industries, and an active commercial district. In 2005, almost all of this is gone. Today, the area is again becoming economically diversified as office buildings and mixed-use apartment complexes have begun to move in as part of the beginnings of the overall revitalization of the area.

200 South

Rio Grande St (455 West)

Former Denver Court

400 South

One or two more TRAX stops? Mayor Rocky Anderson's office, along with city planners and the Rio Grande Community Council, are pushing a two-stop scenario with a station at 125 S. 400 West and another at 525 W. 200 South. The plan would crowd three stations within three blocks of each other -- a move planners say is needed if the city is to push forward with its goal of having highdensity, transit-oriented development in the Gateway mixed-use zone. Gateway owner Roger Boyer maintains the city can encourage walkability through the Gateway by having only two stops -- one at the north end of the shopping center and one at the southern end. He agrees it is redundant to put in another stop. UTA says cost is a factor. After all, it will have to fund the operation of an additional station, which is estimated at $150,000 annually, spokesman Justin Jones said. Moreover, it's already estimated that a ride from the intermodal hub to the TRAX City Center station on Main Street will take five minutes, even with one stop. Adding more time to that ride will decrease ridership, UTA maintains. Deseret Morning News. 8 March 2005. Abstract.
T I 1995 Salt Lake City is announced as the site for the 2002 Winter Olympics, setting off a wave of construction in preparation and a wave of investigations in the wake of scandal allegations M E L I N E 1999 TRAX light rail line from Salt Lake to Sandy opens, ushering in a new era of urban rail transit to Salt Lake after the death of the trolley system 50 years prior.

2000 census
8% 3% 4% 1%

84%

White American Indian Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

African American Asian

Information based on Census Tract 1025

1990
1991 First Gulf War

1993 Genocide in Rwanda 1995-9 The last residences along 300 South between 5th and 6th West are vacated

1998
1997-1998 The Utah Jazz go to the NBA Finals, twice, and lose to the Chicago Bulls both times.

1999 City sells the Main Street Plaza to the LDS Church, sparking off years of lawsuits and public debate.

2000 Dedication of new LDS Conference Center

2002 Salt Lake hosts the Olympic Winter Games.

2005