Urban history
Current Challenges and Developments in a Post-Industrial Neighborhood: Part Two
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Thirty-Fourby Brad Westwood The Pioneer Park neighborhood has always been a contested space. Initially, the area was owned by Native Americans until Mormon (members...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Twentieth Century Changes to Salt Lake City’s Original West Side
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Thirty-Oneby Brad Westwood The above cropped photo is of The Crossroads Coffee Shop, which was located on North Temple adjacent to the Hotel Utah...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
The Progressive Era, the Making of a Proper Park, and the “Stockades”
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Fifteenby Brad Westwood and Cassandra Clark The Progressive Era spanned from 1890 to roughly 1920 and was a time of reform and social activism. Progressives...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Proposed Uses of the Park and Urban Renewal
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Sixteenby Brad Westwood Throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, businesses and government entities targeted Pioneer Park for what they labeled as “public...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Current Challenges and Developments in a Post-Industrial Neighborhood: Part One
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Thirty-Threeby Brad Westwood Since the mid-1990s, the Pioneer Park neighborhood has gradually redefined its identity from that of an industrial, transient, and impoverished area,...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
