At the corner of 100 S and 500 E in Salt Lake City sits a nondescript brick office tower — or at least it used to be an office building. What was once a University of Utah Health office is now called Arbor 515 and offers studio to 4-bedroom apartments for rent. Instead of workers filing in and out, families sit and eat lunch in the front courtyard, and children attend a Montessori school that occupies the ground floor.
Adaptive reuse like this has been gaining popularity since the COVID-19 pandemic led to more people working from home and more office space sitting vacant.
When it comes to Salt Lake City, the concept isn’t new…