The resolve
Nobody designs a rooftop expecting to build it twice. This one was built twice, on a compressed schedule, and nothing got traded away.
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Sugar Alley, the full film · Goldlight for Loft Six FourThe plan · read from above
Sugar House · walkable by design
The pool deck · pool, spa, and the Wasatch beyond
Walk the block “The Alley” at the retail edge
The dining pavilion and pool deck
The interior atrium, read on axis
Key project details 
Multifamily Mixed-Use · Sugar House, Salt Lake City · 2025
Back from a fire, first in the market
Sugar Alley.
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Sugar Alley, the full film · Goldlight for Loft Six FourThe amenity deck, zone by zone.
Pool, spa, dining and lounge, each with its own zone on one level-three deck. From up here, the whole day is laid out.
Light rail at one end, retail at the other.
“The Alley” runs west to east through the block, a pedestrian corridor in a neighborhood that walks. In Sugar House, that’s the whole point.
The rooftop and courtyard amenities had one job: put Sugar Alley at the very top of its market, not the middle.
The result, first
Most Outstanding
Utah Construction & Design · Multi-Family · 2025
Project of the Year
AGC of Utah · Multi-Family · 2025
Rebuilt
After the 2022 fire, to the original standard
01 · The Brief
A flagship, then a fire, then a rebuild that didn’t blink.
Sugar Alley was conceived as a flagship for Lowe Property Group in Sugar House, one of Salt Lake’s most desirable neighborhoods. Roughly 200 homes over 17,000 square feet of street-facing retail, in a walkable district that demanded density and refinement in equal measure.
Then, in October 2022, a four-alarm fire tore through the building during construction and gutted more than 80 percent of it. Everything above the concrete podium came down. The project lost a year and had every excuse to settle for good enough on the rebuild.
Level three, and then the roof.
The pool deck and spa face the Wasatch. Add a dining pavilion, and a wellness suite with infrared sauna and cold plunge. The open-air rooftop patio above has its own pool and hot tub. Two levels, one view.
The rooftop pool, in motion · Sugar Alley
The pool deck + rooftop, every anglePool, spa, dining and the Wasatch beyond
Start on “The Alley” at the retail edge, go up to the dining pavilion and the pool deck, then head inside to the atrium. Three stops, in the order you’d walk them.
02 · The Amenity Layer
One place, inside and out.
Inside, the amenity program doesn’t drop off: a daylit atrium under a glass ceiling, a billiards-and-piano lounge and a wellness suite, the indoor counterpart to the open-air living room above.
The design language, set with Pieter Berger at MVE + Partners, was meant to last: refined, timeless, premium. Arrival, retail edge, deck and rooftop read as one project. Second build included.
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193
units, rebuilt to the original standard after the 2022 fire.
Typology
Multifamily Mixed-Use · 5 residential stories over 3 podium levels
Location
Sugar House, Salt Lake City, Utah
Completion
2025 (rebuilt after the 2022 fire)
Scale
~210,000 sq ft · 1.3-acre site · ~$61.7M · ~17,000 sq ft retail
Landscape
Loft Six Four (rooftop and courtyard amenities)
Architect
MVE + Partners
Developer
Lowe Property Group, with Ascentris + Eight Bay
General Contractor
Kier Construction
Management
LPG Residential
Standout feature
Level-three pool deck + open-air rooftop, Wasatch Range views
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