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USA Climbing project at Rio Grande: board weighs adaptive reuse versus reconstruction for historic Mattress Company building
Summary
CRA staff and USA Climbing presented two options for the Salt Lake Mattress Company building in the Rio Grande District: adaptive reuse (estimated $7.3M) or reconstruction with historic brick (estimated $6.25M–$6.5M), with staff discussing funding gaps and trade-offs; no action was taken.
Salt Lake City staff and representatives for USA Climbing briefed the Community Reinvestment Agency board on Jan. 13 about two paths for the historic Salt Lake Mattress Company building within the Rio Grande District project: an adaptive reuse approach that would shore and retrofit the existing shell, and a controlled deconstruction and reconstruction that would reapply cleaned historic brick onto a new concrete masonry (CMU) backup wall.
Staff said the CRA previously committed up to $6,000,000 to reimburse USA Climbing for rehabilitation to a warm-shell condition. USA Climbing and its…
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