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Mead Up project in Salt Lake City's Central Ninth neighborhood brings dead freeway land back to life.
Last week, crews poured the concrete pad for what will become a futsal court in a pocket park tucked underneath the West Temple I-15 ramp.
The Mead Up area beneath SLC's West Temple freeway ramp, pictured shortly after its cleanup in October of 2024. The Mead Up area in 2023, as maintained by the Utah Department of Transportation. Last week, crews poured the concrete pad for what will become a futsal court in a pocket park tucked underneath the West Temple I-15 ramp.
The space—somewhat awkwardly known as Mead Up in reference to the street that runs alongside it—is a novel attempt to reclaim for productive use what was otherwise a neglected and problematic patch of no-man's-land in the shadow of the "People's Freeway" (If you…
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