After years of delay, Salt Lake City is moving forward with its long-awaited plan of redeveloping the 8.75-acre property southwest of Downtown known as the Fleet Block.
With the erection of a construction fence and arrival of excavators, wrecking crews began the process of removing existing buildings on the shuttered site of the city’s former storage land and buildings.
The demolition marks a big step toward the planned redevelopment of the block, after political debates and eventually human rights protests enmeshed the block in a quagmire for years.
Located at the southeast corner of the Granary District, the city-owned 8.75-acre assemblage sits between 300 and 400 W, 800 and 900 S…