Intermountain Healthcare has made its intentions clear: It wants to build a new hospital at the site of the former Sears store in Salt Lake City.
Makeover of old Sears location could include biomedical facilities, labs, a heliport, offices and shops.
The assembled properties currently are zoned D-2, which instead calls for uses that “relate to and support” the central business district. Having bought the 8.95 acres there in December, Intermountain began demolishing the 75-year-old building in late October The former Sears site in Salt Lake City, on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, before its demolition. Intermountain Healthcare, which bought the site in December, has filed to upzone the property to allow for "a new urban downtown hospital.
The request emerges after years of behind-the-scenes discussions within the Utah-based health system about the possibility of leaving and selling off its LDS Hospital site in the Avenues, which is cramped and aging, in favor of a replacement medical center downtown. Intermountain’s lawyers say city officials have known “for some time” the Sears property is “in dire need of improvement and redevelopment,” according to the new application, sent to City Planning Director Nick Norris.“The property has sat largely vacant and underutilized for so long,” lawyer Tyler Buswell wrote, “because the D-2 zone does not foster and has not attracted the type of users and uses that this site will support.
Intermountain hasn’t created any formal or conceptual plans of its own for the land, its Nov. 15 letter contends, but what it has in mind “would be akin to urban hospitals across the country,” serving, it said, “as an anchor and bookend on the south end of downtown.
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