Riverside Park is 28.5 acres of public space in Rose Park. The park has amenities like tennis courts, playgrounds, grass volleyball, soccer fields, little league and softball leagues, pavilions, grass volleyball, drinking fountains, horseshoe and a sandbox.
Rose Park
By Robert “Buzz” Storey
Rose Park is located about seven minutes northwest of Salt Lake City’s central business district off the 600 North I-15 exit. This friendly neighborhood extends north of 600 North and east of Redwood Road. Rose Park received its name from the many streets in the area named after different varieties of roses like the Nocturne, American Beauty, Buccaneer, Capistrano, Taffeta and the Reine Victoria Roses. This area was first built in 1940 but homes are being renovated and many young people are taking notice of the neighborhood’s great features and buying homes here. This community is now Salt Lake City’s “next new neighborhood.”
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By Buzz Storey
Nestled in the northwest corner of Salt Lake City, the Westpointe neighborhood in Salt Lake City is a quiet place which offers access to both a rural and a metropolitan lifestyle. Within the neighborhood, there are horse-quartering facilities, a future major soccer complex and even an 18-hole golf course. And yet, there is only one stoplight in the whole neighborhood! You can enjoy all this while only being four miles away from Salt Lake City’s Central Business District and the City Creek Mall.
As a result of the Great Recession and the fall of the housing market, homeownership became an unattractive means of expanding a person’s financial assets. Furthermore, mortgages became too expensive for average- to low-wage earners and renting became the only possible option for housing. [Read more…]
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