Reviving an old thread…
I just had a need to venture into Sugarhouse for the first time in sometime. The 21st south infrastructure and repaving project must now be in year 3, does not look close to completion, and the traffic is so bad I won’t drive a car there. Today, despite the heat, I rode my bicycle, and had trouble finding safe roadways to get where I was going.
If we all thought it had changed dramatically four plus years ago, what must everyone think now.
Does anyone go there? Ever?
We occasionally go to Millie’s Hamburgers. We sneak in via 11th East and return the same way.
Once or twice a year, we will go to the Petco there for items our dogs need (or that we think they need). Maybe once a year we drop into the Whole Foods there.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been to Sugarhouse.
I have lived in Sugarhouse for the past 15 years. The construction on 2100S is becoming tiresome for sure. I usually go by different roads to get to Smiths for groceries. Similarly I use other roads to get to the little Target or Michaels. I am not sure the 2100S reconstruction will help with traffic once it is fully open though but we shall see.
The construciton is almost done; its purpose is to replace all the aging sewer and water infrastructure that is over 100 years old. The traffic measures were done at the same time, but not the primary reason.
A couple of weeks ago I went to Chic Fill A and was the third car in line. When I got to the window, there were no cars behind me. I told the attendant I hoped the construction lasts forever.
If you think SH is crowded now, wait until a couple of new highrises go in, one where the Wells Fargo branch is on the corner of 21st S. and 11th east.
Also, the entire shopping center between 21st s. and Wilmington from 11th e. to Chic Fil A is going to be bulldozed and turned into high rise housing. Barnes and Noble, Petco will get get floor ground commercial leases. I am not sure, but I think the Whole Foods is included and will be bulldozed and get a ground floor lease. (Chic Fil A not part of it, neither is Sprague library or the new food hall next door, which is really good btw.)
Facscinating tidbit: that Petco is the busiest Petco in the country.
I hadn’t heard about that shopping area being redeveloped. Do you have a link to the project? We go to Old Navy, Famous Footwear and Panda Express there fairly regularly so that would be a huge change.
No, I just heard about it from my wife, who works at the city. I think the community council has approved, but am not sure.
I usually get the news from the SHCC but that one I must have missed. I am looking at the council website to see if anything has been posted.
It could be that I was told the cc approved the high rise where the Wells Fargo is, and not the shopping center renovation. Maybe that is just in the planning stage; not sure..
Yeah that Wells Fargo one is going to be interesting. 15 stories was eventually approved. The next battle is going to be over the site of the former Sizzler adjacent to Sugarhouse Park. They want to put a hotel there. I think it should be a nice restaurant with a patio overlooking the park. I sent emails to SHCC and hopefully they can get that hotel idea squashed. That is not a good use of that parcel.
the hotel people also want a height limitation lifted. Curious as to how a hotel or a restaurant is going to get a liquor license adjacent to a park
This ^^^^^
It’s a perfect location for exactly that. It could have a patio on the southeast corner of the building looking down the hill at the lake.
EDIT to add an old photo of a ski jump built at somewhere near that location. Possibly on the south side of the hill just south of there where people sleighride.
That is bad-■■■. Can you imagine something like that getting through zoning and other health and safety regulations today? I can’t.
Man, that particular Sizzler is where my dad would take us for dinners. Lots of memories there.
I haven’t lived in the valley for 25 years, is the Hygeia and the Redman Movies and Stories still there?
Hygeia is long gone, replaced by an open air shopping mall with all the shops described above (Petco, Whole Foods, Old Navy, B&N). Redman was converted to apartments. The whole area is now 5 story apartment buildings - becoming more dense than downtown SLC. I don’t understand how you pack more people in the area without significant infrastructure changes. there were rumors of taking the S Line of Trax up to Highland Drive - a developer was willing to donate the land.
As a Sugar Hood resident all I know is that in the 18 years I’ve lived here we’ve gone from a relatively quiet neighborhood to it being pretty hard to get out on the larger thoroughfares. The Millcreek area development is not helping either. It’s quite crowded here.
Additionally, Operation Rio Grande and the Parley’s Trail really pushed the homeless problem up into Sugar House. The area is not the cool, quiet tiny urban center with a little eclectic personality it once was.
We plan to move when my youngest is done with high school in a few years if not sooner.
Just curious - to where will you probably move? I only was in SLC for college, but my wife’s family is around there, mostly further south though - Lehi, Draper, Herriman, etc.
If we stay in the SL Valley we’ll probably move into the Holladay area (that’s a big IF), but likely we’ll move out of the valley completely. SLC isn’t what it used to be, we want to be in a place where kids can still go venture on their bikes and we don’t live in a bowl of pollution 9 months out of the year.
My work can be done from anywhere - I’m a fan of Southern Utah.