Downtown SLC is a trophy-tier Class A submarket of Salt Lake City with average asking rent around $42/sqft/yr.

  • The financial-services trophy core.
  • Trophy tier — ~$42/sqft/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Downtown SLC, Salt Lake City — Class A submarket

The financial-services trophy core. · Tier: trophy · Avg rent: $42/sqft/yr

TL;DR

  • The financial-services trophy core.
  • Trophy tier — ~$42/sqft/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Overview

Downtown Salt Lake City anchors the metro's deepest Class A market — Wells Fargo Center, 111 South Main (Goldman Sachs), and 95 State at City Creek define the trophy tier.

Tenant profile

Banking (Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Zions), law firms, professional services.

Typical specification

15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.

Transit

TRAX (City Center, Gallivan Plaza, Courthouse), FrontRunner.

Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.

Amenities

City Creek Center, Temple Square, Vivint Arena.

Comparable buildings

  • 111 South Main
  • The Wells Fargo Center
  • 95 State at City Creek

Where Downtown SLC sits in Salt Lake City

Downtown SLC is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Salt Lake City, classified as trophy tier with an average asking rent around $42/sqft/yr. Compared with the broader Salt Lake City Class A stock, Downtown SLC typically attracts Banking (Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Zions), law firms, professional services and competes most directly with the city's other trophy submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.

Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Downtown SLC: Silicon Slopes (Lehi), Silicon Slopes (Provo), Sugar House, Airport / International Center. The full Salt Lake City submarket atlas is at /cities/salt-lake-city.

Topic deep-dives for Downtown SLC

For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Downtown SLC, the highest-leverage analyses to commission next are the rent benchmark, the concession-package comparable, and the ESG performance baseline. Class A Atlas covers each as a dedicated topic page for this submarket:

Related glossary

Terminology specific to Salt Lake City Class A leasing and to the trophy tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.

Editorial provenance

Reviewed by Class A Atlas Editorial Desk — House byline · global editorial team. Last updated 2026-04-15. See our methodology and editorial standards.

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