Benefitting the local art community

this is the place! to buy art.

Help bring a hotel to Downtown Salt Lake City focused on fine art investment!

Artists are hurting as a result of AI trends. Real, living artists with real bills to pay need real space to meet with real buyers viewing art in person.
Designed to showcase and economically empower artists in Utah and the West.
Matching up artists with their interested art buyers with professionalism, hospitality and convenience.
Focus here will attract buyers to this market as a Western art investment hub, and expand year-round markets for independent artists in the West!
Multiple art galleries, art shows, flexible studio space, all help artists demonstrate their process and results in the best light.
Archival, humidity controlled, expert and professional art services on site.
Always new art to see! Traveling exhibits and multi-gallery showrooms.
Downtown site is in Library Square in the Central City Community, near civic sites and cultural events.
Putting real human thought back into art, in person!

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The Salt Lake City Council might not approve the rezone needed for the project. Zoning currently supports hotel use, but not a hotel of the size required to support adequate numbers of visiting art buyers, galleries, production studios, specialized receiving and storage spaces, and program support spaces.

The Salt Lake City Council will vote soon on a rezone that the project needs to be viable on this well-connected site near the City Library!

SEE BELOW TO SUBMIT A LETTER OF SUPPORT TO THE SALT LAKE CITY COUNCIL

to the salt lake city council:

HELP LOCAL ARTISTS

Your support will really matter and make a difference!

Use this form to send a letter of support to Salt Lake City’s elected officials, backing the Art Hotel Utah to increase opportunities for local artists.

The Planning Commission sadly gave this Art Deco, art-focused hotel a negative recommendation. The City Council might not vote to approve the project. And they might vote very soon. The next meeting with this project on the agenda is 7 April, 2026.

Western artists have a relative disadvantage in market access compared to east coast artists, but no less quality.
This rezone provides for the unmet needs of local artists in systems, facilities and professional support for a robust and trustworthy art-investment market.
Zoning currently supports a hotel, but not of the size needed to house the mixed-use services to make this proposal possible.
The decision is entirely up to the elected members of the City Council.

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I'm a local

artist.
supporter of the arts.

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Please help support local artists by voting in favor of the rezone at 256 E 300 S, in Downtown Salt Lake City.
This project hosts galleries and supportive programs that will help many local artists.
The boutique hotel anchor tenant is critical to the functioning of the art and cultural programs for the development.

I would benefit from the art programs myself by …

making use of services for artists.
making use of services for investing in fine art.
attending traveling exhibits, local artist exhibits, or art auctions.

Why I support this project. Personalized statement to the City Council:

Email will not be included in the letter, but can show validity of support.

Choose applicable statement about where you live.

This will help the City Council know if you are a resident of Salt Lake City.

7:00 pm April 7, 2026

This project is on Salt Lake City Council meeting agenda.

Western arts

… scene is gallery focused with significantly lower chance of an artists’ works going to auction.

2.7 million artists

… live west of the Mississippi, but over 90% of art sales in the U.S. take place in New York City where just over 100,000 artists live and work.

“in the West, WE HAVE no shortage of artists who go to work everyday and produce work of great quality. We need an increase in supporting professions, systems and specialized facilities for local artists and their investors to realize the benefits of their work. Ana Villacampa’s research is demonstrating potential and strength behind the hotel-anchored cultural programming. We plan on a few unique solutions, and many things that are staples of a robust art investing market.

it is a great moment take advantage of the art market shift toward digital auction spaces. We don’t see a threat in AI advancements on the one hand, what we see is a renewal coming about of people wanting real physical objects with real human intention and feeling behind them. and On the other hand, the digital auction house will bring more democracy to the sales of real human art. let’s take advantage of the shift by increasing the visibility of the art being produced by western artists now.”

emily nelson

Architect

37%

Professional illustrators who have experienced a loss of income from their work; where most can trace this directly to jobs lost to machines or GenAI.

AI data scraping

Anyone who posts their work online makes it susceptible to AI passing it off as AI-produced work. Arts need more opportunity in the real world!

256 E 300 S

Salt Lake City, Downtown location of Art Hotel Utah

this is our neighborhood!

art hotel Location

We bridge our Downtown neighborhood and the Central City Community at Library Square.

Short walk to Library Station and Salt Lake City Main Library.
Site is a bridging mid-block access between 300 S and 400 S.
Library Station is just a few hundred feet and in the Free Fare Zone.
We are near many local and state government and civic sites.
Other neighbors on our block include: Church & State Marketplace, Doki Doki Japanese Dessert Cafe, Stone Ground Italian Restaurant, Oasis Games, and Argentina’s Best Empanadas!

Art Hotel Site:

256 E 300 S
Salt Lake City
Utah 84115