New condos aim to revive Sugar House pulse

(Salt Lake Tribune) Despite its pitted heart, Sugar House has grown a new limb -- and this one is designed to support life.

Oozing urban-living modernity and majestic views, the 29-unit Urbana on Eleventh condominium tower -- a block north of the cratered retail hub -- is just a few months from completion.

Two years after developer Craig Mecham bulldozed the business district's eclecticism, surviving Sugar House business owners predict Urbana could revive the area's weakened but willful pulse.

"It's a beautiful project," says Pat Gleason, who for years worked across the street at a structural-engineering firm. "It will add some eclectic dimension -- it just completes that street."

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