- Salt Lake City’s Planning Commission approved a plan for 20 future townhomes.
- The project replaces a former Village Inn restaurant on a key block in Central City.
- More housing projects are proposed for the area, which was previously a retail space.
SALT LAKE CITY — A former Village Inn east of Trolley Square could soon be coming down to make way for a new type of village.
Members of the Salt Lake City Planning Commission voted Wednesday evening to approve a plan to turn the shuttered restaurant within Salt Lake City’s Central City neighborhood into 20 new “family-sized” townhomes that will go for sale once the project is complete.
“We feel we’re providing something that the market wants in a great location that will encourage walkability,” said Stephen Alfandre, a founding principal of Urban Alfandre, the company that is behind the project. “We’re excited for this.”…