Salt Lake City Living

Salt Lake City is Utah's state capital and the seat of Salt Lake County.  With much to offer, Salt Lake City is a haven for sports enthusiasts, a scenic paradise with spectacular natural beauty, a transportation and commercial hub for the intermountain region and a home to some 180,000 residents. Salt Lake City provides....

.....residents with all the amenities of a major metropolitan area, yet has retained the friendliness of a small, western city.

The greater metropolitan area boasts nearly one million residents. The city is also known for hosting the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, which has enhanced the community's profile as a world-class travel destination. But it is also a great place to call home. It is a vibrant cultural center featuring one of the nation's finest regional symphony orchestras, world-class opera, dance, and theater companies, an illustrious choir and an array of art galleries. Downtown Salt Lake City has.....

.....undergone a revitalization including a new $350 million light rail system, a new central library designed by Moshe Safdi and the new Gateway mixed-use development with more than 90 shops, 150 apartments and condos, a state-of-the-art planetarium, the Children's Museum of Utah and a restored Union Pacific Depot.

The Salt Lake City real estate market is affordable and offers a myriad of housing types, from cozy ramblers and ranches to contemporary bungalows and historic Tudor and Victorian style mansions. Smaller, cottage-style single-family detached homes are priced from near $100,000. Large, beautiful homes with fireplaces, spacious lots and scenic hill and mountain views can be purchased from the mid-$100,000s to $300,000. Spectacular, newly built and older estates are priced from the high $300,000s to more than $7 million for magnificent luxury estates with scenic valley, canyon and lake views, on private lots of considerable acreage. Condominiums and townhouses range in price from well below $100,000 to close to $700,000.

The Salt Lake City School District is well respected and provides the community with quality education. The district has 36 school campuses: 27 elementary schools (K-6), five middle schools (7-8), three high schools (9-12), and one alternative high school. The city is home to a number of facilities of higher education including the University of Utah, the LDS Business College, Salt Lake Community College, Westminster College of Salt Lake City and others.

In addition to the 3,500-plus residents that call downtown home, there are also 18,000 residents who live within one mile of downtown in several historic neighborhoods including the Capitol Hill and Central City neighborhoods. Other residents take advantage of urban loft living and condominiums in the Gateway, Depot and West Temple districts. Other popular Salt Lake neighborhoods include the Avenues, Federal Heights, Yale-Harvard, Gilmore Park and Sugarhouse, all within ten minutes of downtown.

Salt Lake and shopping have gone hand in hand for over a century. The first department store in the United States opened for business in the city in 1868. Today, Salt Lake is a well-known area for excellent shopping sprees with a variety of malls, shopping villages, specialty boutiques, antique and collectible shops, bookstores, factory outlet malls, outdoor shopping and entertainment destinations to choose from.

When it comes to recreation, Salt Lake is a year-round destination. It is recognized as one of North America's finest ski destinations. Ten major ski resorts are located in the area with more than 100 ski lifts, seven cross-country areas and the nation's only recreational ski jumping complex. Skiers are provided with quality and a great quantity of snow with an average annual snowfall of more than 500 inches.

Salt Lake is home to several professional sports teams, including the Salt Lake Jazz, perennial contenders in the NBA; the professional hockey team, the Grizzlies; the Salt Lake Warriors, Utah’s indoor football team; the Utah Spiders, the top women’s semi-professional soccer team in the country; and the Salt Lake Stingers professional baseball team. Major League Soccer has announced the Salt Lake Real, its new team.

Salt Lake's public golf courses are some of the highest rated, best-maintained and most affordable public courses in the country. The city is home to eight incredible full-service golf courses. There are 126 individual parks covering 1,912 acres of land with 58 municipal playgrounds available. The intermountain region has 10 national parks all within a day's drive of Salt Lake City.

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