A national student housing developer wants to build more than 1,000 beds just outside the southern edge of the University of Utah campus — on a property the university identified as a high priority to buy.
Greystar filed a zoning map amendment application with Salt Lake City to rezone the Carmen B. Pingree Autism Center of Learning site at 780 S. Guardsman Way from Institutional (I) to Mixed Use 6 (MU-6).
The 5.33-acre property spans two parcels at the northwest corner of Guardsman Way and Sunnyside Avenue. Its owner, Valley Behavioral Health, signed on as a joint applicant with a Greystar representative on Oct. 28…