These days, community supporters say, the neighborhood faces much deeper challenges than the fire, many of which will sound familiar to other Utah communities as the state’s population balloons.
,” where previous grand plans stalled for years at almost the identical location during the Great Recession.
The decimated Sugar Alley complex was being folded into what has been a steadily expanding cluster of residential towers behind the corner apartments known as The Vue and spreading south with increasing height from the intersection of 2100 South and Highland Drive as well as eastward toward Sugar House Park.
Less than 24 hours after most of the flames were out, meanwhile, financial backers for its Salt Lake City developers, Lowe Property Group, vowed they would rebuild Sugar Alley “as planned.” Some are seeing that as a sign of just how much sheer momentum is behind Sugar House’s housing-fed growth spurt. The remnants of the Sugar Alley fire in Sugar House, on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022.
“They’ll scrap this thing,” Clark predicted of the burnt hulk at Sugar Alley, “and they’ll start building the next day. I don’t think they’re going to hesitate at all.” Hill said community leaders regularly barter with incoming developers about including more affordable leasing spaces in their projects to provide places for these small retailers — with limited success. Otherwise, he said, such shops can’t afford new rents and are vulnerable to getting squeezed out by more lucrative chain stores.
More of it is coming — and that’s drawing the notion of preserving Sugar House’s old look and feel into sharper focus. Short said community leaders keep waiting for development to ease up, “but that doesn’t seem to be happening.” Sugar Alley, Hill and others said, was designed to add character and complement the neighborhood, in contrast to other projects that may seem out of place.
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