Salt Lake City has a new high point. Astra Tower rises 450 feet over downtown, making the 40-story building the tallest in Utah and the clearest sign yet that the city’s core is going vertical. Boston-based Kensington Investment Company developed it, with Salt Lake City’s own Jacobsen Construction as general contractor.
Project Scope
The tower holds 372 apartments above ground-floor retail, structured parking, and about 40,000 square feet of amenity space. Putting a slender residential tower at that height in a mid-size downtown is a structural and logistics exercise as much as an architectural one: a tight urban site, a tall pour schedule, and wind and seismic loads that drive the frame. Jacobsen, a fixture on Utah’s largest projects, ran the build for a local market that hadn’t seen a residential tower at this scale before.
Why It Matters
Salt Lake City spent decades as a low-rise downtown ringed by mountains. Astra Tower breaks that pattern and tests whether the market will pay for height and density in a city better known for sprawl. Its 372 units add real housing to a supply-tight core, and its silhouette hands the region a new tallest building, a milestone that tends to pull other towers up behind it.
Project Team & Details
| Developer | Kensington Investment Company |
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| Owner / Client | Kensington Investment Company |
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| General Contractor | Jacobsen Construction |
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| Status | Completed |
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| Funding Source | Private |
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