July
Now is a great time to get away!

Take a vacation, relax and give yourself a break from all the hard work that goes on throughout the year! Be ready to celebrate our Nation's Independence Day on Sunday, July 4th! Have a safe holiday and be sure to check the Neighborhood Website often to keep updated on Summer happenings!



Sugar House Named One of the Best Old House Neighborhoods
This Old House Magazine

Sugar House, Salt Lake City, Utah

Founded in 1853, this quiet and cheerfully quirky suburb is 10 minutes from downtown Salt Lake City. Named for a local sugar mill that never actually processed any of the sweet stuff (the machines shipped from France didn't make the journey), the area is a first-time homebuyers' delight, filled with quaint 1920s fixer-uppers and post World War II cottages. Sugar House's tree-lined streets and 110-acre park, just east of the town's center (and formerly the site of the Utah State Prison), also make it a great place for folks who don't mind lacing up their walking shoes. While home to big, established employers such as the nearby University of Utah and a large medical research park, Sugar House boasts a thriving district of small businesses, arts venues, and restaurants at the intersection of 900 East and 900 South (known as "9th and 9th").

The Houses
Known for early-20th-century bungalows, cottages, and Tudors, Sugar House is also home to a sprinkling of charming Victorians. House sizes average 2,100 square feet and prices start about $365,000, but savvy and patient house hunters can find cozy, 1,500-square-foot bungalows in the southern part of town for about $250,000.

Why Buy Now?
Sugar House seems to be one of those rare recession-proof markets, as home prices have remained relatively stable. And finding a place shouldn't be too difficult. Since the area attracts younger single homeowners, the market stays pretty lively as people relocate for work or families outgrow their starter homes.

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Featured Sugar House News Stories

SLC to put up money for streetcars in Sugar House
August 19th, 2009 KSL.Com

SUGAR HOUSE -- Salt Lake City will put up $2.5 million to get federal funding for a streetcar system in Sugar House.

The Deseret News reports the city's council voted Tuesday to help secure $35 million in stimulus funding.

The streetcar system would connect the TRAX station near 2100 South with the Sugar House business district on 1100 East.

If the project gets federal funding, it could be completed in early 2012.

Sugar House historical website is now available for history buffs
by Erin McShay
Sugar House Journal

If you don't have the ambition to write your memoirs quite yet but still feel the need to share your special memories with others, Placeography.org may be just right for you. Personal blogs seem to be popping up everywhere lately, and now Sugar House has a website where residents can record their individual experiences and read others as well.

Westminster's National History Honor Society, the Phi Alpha Theta chapter, and the college's Center for Civic Engagement teamed with Lynne Olson, a community volunteer,to commemorate the ever-changing suburb of Sugar House.

To preserve Sugar House's history because it's changing so fast, a lot of people have found the website to be very effective. Anybody can check in and upload photos and documents, said Olson.

The website also provides helpful resources, such as maps and photographs from the state's historical society. Browsers can take a stroll down memory lane, viewing pictures of the original Sugar House Prison, the old Sugar House Park, Hidden Hallow and other natural treasures in Sugar House.

We started doing Sugar House story events, inviting people to video tape their personal history, and they came in with photographs and other clipping and we tried to come up with a way to archive the information, said Gary Daynes, Westminster College Associate Provost. I came across the Placeography website, which is set up kind of like Wikipedia.

Placeography.org, a website out of Minnesota, is an Internet site where residents of any city or town can highlight specific features about their community.

Lots of people like to tell their memories and old stories, and the city is changing so rapidly [that[ lots of areas are disappearing, Daynes said. A lot of residents are growing older, and it's a great way to preserve history. It's open to everyone; it's a democratic way where everyone can be a historian.

Westminster held a training session to teach people how to set up an account and start using it. There will be another training sometime in the future. For a set of the workshops instructions, e-mail lynneolson@msn.com. To access the site, got to http://www.placeography.org/index.php?title=Project:Sugar_House.

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Useful Links:
City Council District Councilman Soren Simonson
Sugar House's Own Community NewspaperSugar House Journal

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Historic Photos of Salt Lake

Book Descriptions
Founded by Mormon pioneers seeking a place to practice their religion, Salt Lake City became a center of regional commerce, fueled by mining and the completion of the Union Pacific and local railroads. It ultimately attracted residents from all parts of Europe, as well as Mexico, China, and Japan.

Historic Photos of Salt Lake City captures the story of this unique community through still photography selected from the finest collections, a visual record of the city's history presented in striking black-and-white photographs.

From the building of the magnificent Mormon Temple and Tabernacle to the establishment of America's first department store; from muddy streets to wide boulevards with park-like medians; from Greek grocery stores to Japanese-American baseball teams, Historic Photos of Salt Lake City tells a visual story of a unique American city.

Author Bio:
Jeff Burbank is a longtime journalist and editor. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in communications-print journalism from American University. He is the author of License to Steal: Nevada's Gaming Control System in the Megaresort Age (Nevada, 2000), Las Vegas Babylon (M. Evans, 2005), and Historic Photos of Las Vegas (Turner Publishing 2007). He has been published in many venues, including The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Las Vegas Review-Journal and Sun, Reno Gazette-Journal, and Newsweek. He is currently an instructor for the English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Book is available through Turner Publishing