Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Salt Lake City creates design competition for "what to do with the ballpark"

The city owns the site.  The team owner the structure.  There are also parking lots across the street.  One is pretty small, and I think the city owns it, but it's not included in the design competition.  The other is a large parking lot across the street, and is much much bigger.

-- Salt Lake City Ballpark Next

The website has some good reference material.  Obviously the city prepared the website expecting the team would move. 


The site is one block from a major car sewer, State Street, and a bit more than one block to a light rail station.  On the other side of the light rail tracks is a big box corridor not susceptible to redesign of any significance.

The neighborhood is partly housing to the west, and somewhat commercial to the east, towards State Street.  The section of the neighborhood where the stadium is embedded is pretty residential.

If anyone who can do design wants to work with me on a proposal, I'm game.  I already have ideas.

That being said, Salt Lake City's biggest problem is that it has so much more build out capacity than there is demand.

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