Salt Lake City released its latest plans to fill in the area between the shuttered Rio Grande Depot and the lackluster Salt Lake Central Station this week, which if realized would see 300 South converted to a people-first “festival street” that runs through a new arts-focused pedestrian plaza before culminating at the proposed Green Loop linear park on 500 West.
Salt Lake City released its latest plans to fill in the area between the shuttered Rio Grande Depot and the lackluster Salt Lake Central Station this week, which if realized would see 300 South converted to a people-first “festival street” that runs through a new arts-focused pedestrian plaza before culminating at the proposed Green Loop linear park on 500 West. In visioning documents prepared by the firm Perkins&Will on behalf of the city’s Redevelopment Agency (RDA), the long-dormant blocks between 400 South and 200 South on the western edge of downtown would be filled with new housing and retail amenities, a hotel, enhanced transit connections and mid-block walkways, green landscaping and even a micropark in the neglected space beneath the 400 South viaduct…