Salt Lake City Neighborhoods: Granary District

With borders that sit roughly along 300 West, I-15, 600 South, and 1000 South, the Granary District is one of our city’s oldest neighborhoods. Formerly an industrial and railroad thoroughfare, the area is packed with warehouses and silos that long sat abandoned after the railroad moved and business in the area declined. However, in recent years this small, city-adjacent pocket is seeing something of a reinvention.

Phase One of the Granary District entailed Granary Row, a pop-up community market of food, shops, and music in old shipping containers and other creative reuse structures, along with a proper beer garden. Open every weekend for six months in 2013, it occupied a block along the middle of 700 South, and helped to kick start the revitalization of this artistic and now-thriving neighborhood.

Granary District Neighborhood & Local Businesses

According to the Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency website, the aim was to “create a mixed-use neighborhood that supports commercial businesses and services by improving public infrastructure, addressing deterioration, preserving historic structures, financially supporting adaptive reuse development, and creating open space.” Along with fantastic proximity to downtown Salt Lake City, as well as transit access, the Granary District sees a small section of the 9-Line Trail as it runs down 900 South. All told, however, if you’re considering a move to this area, you needn’t really worry about getting to other districts in our city, as there’s plenty here to keep you busy and well-fed. The relatively new evo Hotel, Granary Campus is an outdoor enthusiast’s dream accommodation: here, you’ll find two restaurants, a rooftop bar, service and gear shops (as well as rentals and storage for said gear,) a skate park, and a 26,000 square-foot climbing gym. Fisher Brewing and Kiitos both offer taprooms for a frosty pint, with the former boasting a dog-friendly patio and a consistent food-truck schedule. Pictureline, SLC’s long-established go-to for all things photography-related, sits on 700 South (just down the street from the aforementioned evo Hotel), and the Bicycle Collective—a non-profit that promotes cycling and provides refurbished bikes for those in need, among other things—has a new location on 900 South. Kilby Court, our city’s beloved (and longest running) all-ages, “pint-sized, bare-bones” music venue has been holding it down in the district since 1999, and Granary Live is a new outdoor live-music venue that will host The Roots, Kruanghbin, Louis the Child, Don Toliver, and The National over the next few months. Woodbine Food Hall offers plenty of options for dinner “out,” as well as a rooftop patio/bar, and don’t forget to pay respect to Hoodah, the 15-foot tall, wooden protector of the Granary District.

Granary District Homes

Home hunters in the Granary District should expect to have more success with mixed-use housing and updated historic structures within or just outside the neighborhood boundaries (say, in the Central Ninth and Ballpark districts or on the eastern end of Glendale). These areas are dotted with new town homes and mid- and high-rise rentals, as well as retrofitted spaces and renovated warehouse lofts, and though inventory is still relatively low, plans for additional development are well underway. Existing apartment and condo projects in and around Granary include the Artspace Commons, Post District Residences, Moda Granary Place, Alinea Lofts, Block 8, Slate, and Sloane, among others.

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