The resolve
It did not. The same spaces were delivered a second time, on a compressed schedule, to the original standard, the amenity layer rebuilt from the podium up to capture the Wasatch the way it always meant to.
Back to WorkThe plan · read from above
Sugar House · walkable by design
The pool deck · pool, spa, and the Wasatch beyond
Walk the block “The Alley” at the retail edge
The dining pavilion and pool deck
The interior atrium, read on axis
Key project details 
Multifamily Mixed-Use · Sugar House, Salt Lake City · 2025
Back from a fire, first in the market
Sugar Alley.
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The amenity deck, read as architecture.
A level-three pool deck carved into distinct zones, pool, spa, dining, and lounge, seen from above before we step inside.
A pedestrian corridor, linking light rail to retail.
"The Alley" runs west to east through the block, connecting the light-rail line to the neighborhood retail edge, density and refinement in equal measure.
We designed the rooftop and courtyard amenities to make Sugar Alley rentable at the very top of its market, not the middle.
The result, first
2025
Utah Construction & Design · Most Outstanding Project, Multi-Family
2025
AGC of Utah · Multi-Family Project of the Year
100%
Rebuilt after the 2022 fire, to the original standard
01 · The Brief
A flagship, then a fire, then a rebuild that didn't blink.
Sugar Alley was conceived as a flagship for Lowe Property Group in Sugar House, one of Salt Lake’s most desirable neighborhoods. Roughly 200 homes over 18,000 square feet of street-facing retail, in a walkable district that demanded density and refinement in equal measure.
Then, in October 2022, a four-alarm fire tore through the building during construction and gutted more than 80 percent of it. Everything above the concrete podium came down. The project lost a year and had every excuse to settle for good enough on the rebuild.
The amenity layer carries the experience.
A level-three pool deck and spa positioned to capture the Wasatch Range, with a dining pavilion, a wellness suite, infrared sauna and cold plunge, and an open-air rooftop patio with its own pool and hot tub above.
The rooftop pool, in motion · Sugar Alley
The pool deck + rooftop, every anglePool, spa, dining and the Wasatch beyond
"The Alley" stitches the block together at the street, then the amenity program lifts the experience floor by floor, a retail edge that anchors the corner, a pool-and-dining deck that captures the mountains, and an interior atrium that holds it all together.
02 · The Amenity Layer
An interior that holds you.
Beyond the deck, Sugar Alley layers in a full indoor amenity program: a daylit atrium under a glass ceiling, a billiards-and-piano lounge, and a wellness suite, the interior counterpart to the open-air living room above.
The intent throughout was top-of-market. Every move, inside and out, was made so Sugar Alley rents at the very top of its market and reads as one refined, timeless place, even on the second build.
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193
units, rebuilt to the original standard after the 2022 fire.
Typology
Multifamily Mixed-Use · 5 residential stories over 3 podium levels
Location
Sugar House, Salt Lake City, Utah
Completion
2025 (rebuilt after the 2022 fire)
Scale
~210,000 sq ft · 1.3-acre site · ~$61.7M · ~17,000 sq ft retail
Landscape
Loft Six Four (rooftop and courtyard amenities)
Architect
MVE + Partners
Developer
Lowe Property Group, with Ascentris + Eight Bay
General Contractor
Kier Construction
Management
LPG Residential
Standout feature
Level-three pool deck + open-air rooftop, Wasatch Range views
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