- Spark Apartments opens in Salt Lake City, offering 200 affordable housing units.
- The project includes a child care center and various amenities for residents.
- Funding came from multiple public and private sources, transforming a blighted area.
SALT LAKE CITY — As David Brint and others with his development team continued to plan out a new housing development at the site of a rundown motel along North Temple in Salt Lake City, his daughter noticed the Rocky Mountain Power headquarters across the street.
“She saw that there was a plant across the street, and she said, ‘Why don’t we name it ‘Spark,’?” said Brint, founding principal of Brinshore Development, as he recalled the moment on Wednesday.
He wasn’t sure about it, but with time, the project eventually became Spark Apartments, a massive mixed-use complex with 200 affordable housing units that could be seen as the ignition for a section of the city destined to grow in the coming decades. After a few speeches, Brint and other dignitaries, including city leaders, cut the ribbon to open the new complex…