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Utah City

Vineyard, UT, USA

At the head of the principal promenade sits the transit plaza providing access to Front Runner regional rail. 

Client

Flagship Companies, Woodbury Corporation

Collaborators

DPZ Co-Design

Timeline

2020 - present

Category

New Towns & Neighborhoods, Transit Oriented Developments

Budget

N/A

Scale

294 acres

Status

Under construction

Reference

Bronson Tatton, Flagship Development, bronson@forsail.com

The Salt Lake City region has seen a tremendous investment in transit but not much of the resulting station area development has been truly walkable. Utah City aims to make good on the promise of T.O.D.

This large-scale Transit-Oriented Development places a new downtown on the 294-acre brownfield formerly occupied by the Geneva Steel Mill. Vineyard is one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S., but thus far has not developed any of the walkable urbanism that can be found in Utah’s older communities. This plan re-centers the city on its new rail stop and shapes 9.5 million square feet of new growth into a complete community of places to live, work, shop, worship, recreate, and also seek care at a regional medical center.


The plan is organized as two neighborhoods, each centered on a linear promenade reaching to the lakefront. The larger promenade terminates on a civic square, which then transitions to a “shared space” main street reaching to the station plaza. The square itself functions as a traffic distribution device, like a roundabout, so that no one street beyond it need contain more than two driving lanes.


The plan and associated form-based code were quickly approved by the City and development is well underway. Trains are arriving at the Front Runner Station, multiple mixed-use blocks are under construction, and site planning is almost complete for both a new supermarket and the Huntsman Cancer Institute’s 40-acre campus.

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