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Tony Semerad

Real estate reporter

Tony covers growth and development issues for The Tribune. He is a former editor and politics reporter and has been with The Tribune since 1991.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A man recently seeking shelter under the 500 South overpass in Salt Lake City. With homelessness running high, the city is boosting its available shelter beds and stepped up police patrols along the Jordan River.

Open winter shelter beds in summer? SLC may do so. And Jordan River patrols are paying off.

By Tony Semerad | April 26, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Road construction along 2100 South through the heart of Sugar House in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 24, 2025.

SLC pushes road repairs — including on 1300 East and 300 North — extends bike lanes and plugs potholes as bond money runs out

By Tony Semerad | April 28, 2025, 3:08 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Church Office Building is reflected in a downtown Salt Lake City building, where Ensign Peak Advisors, an investment arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is located. The faith again prevailed in a lawsuit about its financial dealings.

Ruling on tithing leaves questions about the LDS Church’s wealth and financial transparency up in the air

By Tony Semerad | April 19, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Church Office Building, in the rear, towers over the Church Administration Building in Salt Lake City.

LDS Church wins again as judge tosses out tithing lawsuit; the faith says donations are ‘wisely managed’

By Tony Semerad | April 18, 2025, 12:01 p.m.

(Courtesy of Salt Lake City Police Department) City police at a crime scene in March. Salt Lake City recently approved a new labor pact with its police union, ahead of a state imposed ban on collective bargaining by public workers.

SLC approves contract with police union. Here’s why this might be the last one of its kind.

By Tony Semerad | April 18, 2025, 12:40 p.m.

(Rick Egan and Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A collection of Salt Lake City police surveillance cameras around the city.

SLC police cameras — They see you, and you will see more of them

By Tony Semerad | April 12, 2025, 5:53 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Delta Center is pictured on Friday, May 10, 2024.

‘We had no say’ — SLC leaders go along with last-minute changes to funding for Delta Center, Salt Palace overhauls

By Tony Semerad | April 9, 2025, 8:58 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Delta Center is pictured on Friday, May 10, 2024.

In last-minute change, plan for new downtown Salt Lake City entertainment district near Delta Center gets even bigger

By Tony Semerad | April 8, 2025, 8:27 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gov. Spencer Cox, bottom left, attends a ceremonial bill signing for public safety laws in Salt Lake City, Thursday, April 3, 2025.

Gov. Cox, Utah lawmakers laud new public safety laws, but SLC leaders are less impressed

By Tony Semerad | April 4, 2025, 10:19 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) A man carrying jugs of water walks past trash strewn along the bank of the Jordan River near Cottonwood Park in 2022. Salt Lake City is closing part of the Jordan River Trail near the park.

Citing public safety worries, SLC is closing part of the Jordan River Trail

By Tony Semerad | April 2, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) People pass by a shelter along the banks of the Jordan River in Salt Lake City, Monday, March 17, 2025. The Tribune visited a group of shelters three times across two weeks to see the effect cleanups have on the environment and the people living there.

‘They took my house again’ — What a homeless camp cleanup in SLC looks like, from beginning to end

By Tony Semerad | Chris Samuels | Rick Egan | April 2, 2025, 3:19 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Estimated earnings from over $200 billion in investment reserves held by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, headquartered in Salt Lake City, where the Church Administration Building, foreground, and the Church Office Building are located, now exceed the faith's yearly costs.

Why the LDS Church soon may not need tithing anymore to cover its global programs

By Tony Semerad | April 3, 2025, 2:15 p.m.

(Salt Lake City) A rendering of The Grove, a new residential development planned around Salt Lake City's vintage Northwest Pipeline Building at 315 E. 200 South. The project received a new allocation of affordable housing funds through Salt Lake City's Community Reinvestment Agency this week.

SLC puts another $11.5M into affordable housing. Here’s where the money is going.

By Tony Semerad | March 22, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demolition crews begin their work leveling the Fleet Block, including the memorialized faces of people killed by police, near 800 South and 300 West in Salt Lake City on Thursday, March 20, 2025.

SLC murals of people killed by police destroyed in Fleet Block demolition

By Tony Semerad | Paighten Harkins | Shaylee Navarro | March 21, 2025, 5:15 p.m.

(The Point Partners) A presentation slide featuring a proposed 5,000-seat entertainment venue a The Point, Utah's redevelopment project at the former state prison site in Draper.

Opening act of Utah’s big development at The Point will now be anchored by an entertainment venue

By Tony Semerad | March 19, 2025, 8:23 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Bricks that fell from the facade of a Magna store after the March 18, 2020, earthquake. A new poll shows how worried Utahns are about a looming "Big One."

5 years since major jolt, Utah earthquake fears are rising, but they take a back seat to human-caused disasters

By Tony Semerad | March 18, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A landmark water tower rises over a revived Trolley Square.

This quirky and historic shopping mall in SLC is on an upswing — with even more stores on the way

By Tony Semerad | March 17, 2025, 6:55 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demolition crews take down the last of the old Sizzler restaurant by Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 18, 2024.

Developer pitches new plan for old Sizzler site next to Sugar House Park

By Tony Semerad | March 13, 2025, 6:31 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Brian Redd, former head of Utah prisons, has been approved as Salt Lake City's new police chief, replacing former Chief Mike Brown.

After previous police chief’s ouster, Salt Lake City has a new top cop

By Tony Semerad | March 5, 2025, 4:50 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and her pick for police chief, Brian Redd, at a news conference at City Hall on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025.

How Mendenhall’s pick for police chief plans to tackle Salt Lake City’s homelessness crisis

By Tony Semerad | March 4, 2025, 5:32 p.m.

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