Salt Lake City’s downtown is thriving — and changing. Young, educated and tech-smart workers are moving into condos and apartments close to jobs centers and a host of new restaurants, bars and theaters in the downtown area.
A new study, commissioned by the Downtown Alliance, representing merchants in the urban core, has documented that growth in the working-age population, comparing it to other large cities in the West. Its key finding: Utah’s downtown workforce is more tech based, but also on the lower end of the national salary scale.
And as Salt Lake City’s downtown continues to flourish, that talent pool is giving it a competitive edge among major cities such as Denver, Portland, Seattle, Boise, Omaha and Austin.