Slate.

Central Ninth, Salt Lake City150 units · 5 storiesSpa-cascade courtyard

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A person in the spa beside the Slate courtyard water wall

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The plan · read from above

One courtyard, cut into zones.

A second-level courtyard, framed by the building. Up here, the layout. Down there, the life.

Central Ninth · car-free by design

Steps from the TRAX line.

Not the kind of neighborhood you end up in. The kind you pick on purpose.

The units run small. So the courtyard is the building’s shared living room, doing what the square footage can’t.

01 · The Brief

A tight footprint, asked to do more.

Slate was built for a specific kind of life: vibrant, urban, and car-free, steps from the Central Ninth TRAX station. A highly curated, brand-packaged building of mostly smaller and micro units that still had to feel generous.

The site made it harder. A 0.73-acre infill lot assembled from four parcels, wrapping an existing building on three sides, with property lines reaching within inches of a historic neighbor. And somewhere in there, the whole building needed room to be neighbors.

01 · The Brief, A tight footprint, asked to do more.

The intent

Nothing out here was bolted on. Every move sits with KTGY’s brick-and-industrial architecture and the rhythm of the street, so the building feels curated, not assembled.

The courtyard · the building’s shared living room

Where the building gathers.

A spa-and-hot-tub lounge, dining, and intimate seating. River-rock detailing, string lights overhead, the spa cascade running into the evening.

The spa cascade, in motion · Slate

The courtyard, every angleSpa cascade, lounge and dusk-lit zones

Walk the courtyard

Large-format pavers alternate with strips of turf, and that’s the whole trick. One courtyard reads as a sequence of outdoor rooms, lounge, bistro and dining, each with its own character.

The signature wire cage chairs

A bistro row at the board-formed planter

The activity zones, read from above

02 · The Amenity Layer

The inside keeps pace.

Beyond the courtyard, Slate layers in a full wellness program: a sauna, a meditation room, a two-level clubhouse, and fitness. What the courtyard does outside, this does inside.

That was the point from the start. Inside and out, it reads as one place, and the small units get to live like big ones.