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Craig Frazer
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cfrazer@remax.net
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The Avenues is a neighborhood in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is named after the perfectly grid-like, closely laid out roads called Avenues and Streets. First surveyed in the 1850s, the Avenues became Salt Lake City's first neighborhood. Today, the Avenues neighborhood is generally considered younger, more progressive, and somewhat "artsy" when compared to other neighborhoods. Many young professionals choose to live there due to the eclectic culture and easy commute to downtown.
The Avenues neighborhood lies on the "benches" of the Wasatch Mountains. The bottom of the Avenues is South Temple Street (1st Avenue is the next street North), and from there the neighborhood is built up onto the lower slopes of the mountains.
The north-south roads in the Avenues (which slope up the hillside) are lettered (beginning on the west side) "A" through "U" Street and ending with "Virginia Street" on the east side. The east-west roads are numbered (starting on the south end) at 1st Avenue and continuing to the north ending at 18th Avenue. The grid system breaks down around 13th Avenue, as more recent development farther north has taken a more serpentine bend. The 'major' streets used more for through-traffic due to their connections at South Temple to city arterial streets are B Street, E Street, I Street, and Virginia. The 'major' avenues are 2nd Avenue, 3rd Avenue, 6th Avenue, 11th Avenue, and 13th Avenue.
The Avenues lie just northeast of downtown Salt Lake City, and due east - across City Creek Canyon - from Capitol Hill. The neighborhood to the east of the lower (below 11th) Avenues is known as Federal Heights, and is traditionally thought of as beginning north of South Temple Street and East of Virginia Street. It is sometimes considered a part of the Avenues, though the neighborhood may be considered as generally more affluent than the Avenues. Above Federal Heights is a more recently developed area often called Arlington Hills. Compared to the neighborhoods to the east, the Avenues are in places quite steep as they climb the foothills to the north.
The large Salt Lake City Cemetery occupies a significant portion of the eastern Avenues below 11th Avenue, and abuts Lindsey Gardens (park) and the 11th Avenue Park.
The "lower Avenues" (below 11th or 13th) is a neighborhood of older Victorian-era houses, and at one time was popular with younger homeowners looking for affordable "fixer-uppers", but in recent years a large renovation boom has swept the area. As fixer-uppers are diminishing, and overall housing and land acquisition costs are increasing, it has become a less affordable area relative to much of Salt Lake County. The Avenues is also popular due to its proximity to downtown, the large and remote Memory Grove/City Creek Canyon recreation area, the University of Utah, and the airport, as well as low traffic and minimal commercial development. The only significant non-residential developments are a supermarket, a few surrounding businesses, and the LDS Hospital complex.
For additional information, please refer to the more detailed information available at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avenues,_Salt_Lake_City,_Utah
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