A farmland plat became a small commercial lot in 1987
South Gale Street in Salt Lake City holds a single-story commercial building of about 2,050 square feet, erected in 1987 on a lot just over a tenth of an acre. The parcel was carved from the Coates and Corums South Gale Amended plat, which broke up older farmland into the residential lots that still line the block, and it remains classified as commercial within an otherwise residential stretch.
A commercial building rose on a residential block in 1987
Gale Street is a short residential street just west of 900 South in Salt Lake City. The block is lined with modest houses, and the parcel right at this spot holds a small commercial building put up in 1987, sitting on just over a tenth of an acre.
There's nothing flashy about this corner of the city. A quarter mile away, Salt Lake City's 900 South station marks where the TRAX trains stop, and a public sculpture called Faces of the Neighborhood, made in 2005, stands nearby.
The lot at South Gale Street was carved out of a larger subdivision called Coates and Corums South Gale Amended plat. That plat broke up older farmland into the small residential lots that still line the block today.
The lot at South Gale Street stayed undeveloped until 1987. That year a builder put up the commercial structure still standing on it, a single-story building of about 2,050 square feet on a lot just over a tenth of an acre.
The county classifies the lot as commercial, a small business use tucked into an otherwise residential stretch of Gale Street. Salt Lake County's assessor records show no later rebuild or major change to the structure since it went up.
The lot has since passed into private hands, as most small parcels on this block have.
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