The district Midvale
Four hundred and forty six acres with a federal file behind them
Bingham Junction, and the record underneath it.
Five smelters ran on or near this ground between 1871 and 1958. The Environmental Protection Agency listed the 446 acre Midvale Slag site in 1991 and deleted it in 2015, and what stands there now is a rail platform, offices, homes, a supermarket, a park and a driving range. The separate 470 acre Sharon Steel site to the south has its own record and its own dates and became Jordan Bluffs. Here is which is which, and what is built as against what is only approved.
Southern Utah is my home turf. Midvale is not, so these pages are researched rather than lived: checked against city, county and venue sources, and dated so you can see how fresh they are. For the on-the-ground work here I lean on a Salt Lake County partner agent.
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Four hundred and forty six acres with a public record attached to every one of them.
Bingham Junction is the name of the district on the western side of Midvale, and it stands on the Midvale Slag site: 446 acres where five smelters processed lead and copper ore between 1871 and 1958. The Environmental Protection Agency listed it on the National Priorities List in 1991 and deleted it in 2015. What sits there now, in the agency's own description, is light rail infrastructure, homes, office space for national and international companies, a supermarket, retail stores and recreational amenities.
The first thing to get right about this ground is that there are two sites here rather than one, and most write ups merge them. Midvale Slag is the northern one and it became Bingham Junction. Sharon Steel, also recorded as Midvale Tailings, is the separate 470 acre site to the south, cleaned on its own timetable and deleted from the list in 2004, and it became Jordan Bluffs. Two records, two sets of dates, two districts. Attaching one site's date to the other district is the most common error in circulation about this city.
The second thing is that everything above is checkable. The EPA publishes a site profile for each, with the remedy, the dates and the reuse figures on it, and the deletion notices are in the Federal Register. This page states what the record states and points at where the record is. It does not reassure and it does not insinuate, because neither belongs in a page about somebody's future address.
Bingham Junction by the record
446 acres
the size of the Midvale Slag site
1871 to 1958
the years five smelters ran on or near it
2015
the year it left the National Priorities List
64
on-site businesses the EPA recorded in December 2024
Two sites, not one
The record separates what the map has run together.
This table exists because merging the two produces wrong dates, and wrong dates in a records review are worse than no dates. Everything in it comes from the Environmental Protection Agency's published site records.
| Midvale Slag | Sharon Steel, also recorded as Midvale Tailings | |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 446 acres, divided into a northern operable unit of 266 acres and a southern one of 180 | About 470 acres, with the first operable unit roughly 260 undeveloped acres |
| What operated there | Five smelters on or near the site, processing lead and copper ore | A smelting and ore milling facility producing lead, copper, zinc and other metals |
| Years | 1871 to 1958 | 1906 to 1971 |
| What was left | Toxic levels of heavy metals in area soils and groundwater | A waste tailings pile recorded at 10 million cubic yards, among other material |
| The remedy on the record | Soil excavation and removal, smelter waste and slag removal, groundwater monitoring, stabilisation of the Jordan River banks, and institutional controls | Cleaned by the EPA and the Utah Department of Environmental Quality by 1999 |
| Key dates | Listed 1991, Ready for Reuse Determination 23 May 2008, deleted from the National Priorities List in 2015 | Deletion from the National Priorities List effective 24 September 2004 |
| What it became | Bingham Junction | Jordan Bluffs, published by the EPA as a roughly 265 acre mixed use parcel |
Site descriptions, remedies, acreages and dates as published by the US Environmental Protection Agency, read 8 August 2026. The agency maintains a public site profile for each site and the deletion notices are published in the Federal Register. Operation, maintenance and five year reviews continue after a deletion, which is a normal part of the process and is documented on the same records. If a specific parcel matters to you, read the record for that parcel rather than a summary of it, including this one.
Institutional controls are documents, and documents are read rather than argued about. The published remedy for the northern site includes institutional controls, which are recorded instruments that govern what may be done with the ground. They surface in ordinary title work and they are handled routinely by the professionals who do that work in this valley every week. The useful posture is neither alarm nor a shrug: ask for the documents that attach to a specific parcel, read them, and take anything unclear to the city or to the EPA's public records. Nobody should be telling you what those documents say without having read the ones for your address.
What is standing
Offices, a platform, a park and a driving range.
The buildings are the clearest evidence of what this ground now is. FLSmidth runs its United States regional headquarters here at 7158 South FLSmidth Drive, across two buildings in the View 72 Corporate Center: about 90,000 square feet of LEED Gold office space and a 67,000 square foot technology centre for mineral processing. That is a mining technology company with a research building on the site of five former smelters, which is either an irony or a continuity depending on how you look at it.
The most conspicuous building is the round one at 799 West Coliseum Way, 257,777 square feet on 18.6 acres, built as a corporate headquarters and sold to Salt Lake County in a transaction that closed on 20 December 2024 at 52 million dollars. The county published a plan to move government operations into it during 2026, having assessed that maintaining and renovating its existing complex would exceed 225 million dollars, and a bill allowing a county to maintain additional office space outside its county seat passed the Utah House unanimously. As of 8 August 2026 that move was still the county's published plan, so confirm the current position with the county rather than assuming either way.
Around those sit the ordinary furniture of a district: a supermarket, retail, homes of several types, a driving range at 920 Jordan River Boulevard that carries a Salt Lake City name and a Midvale address, and the Bingham Junction TRAX platform on the Red Line at 7387 South Bingham Junction Boulevard. The recreational half is a municipal park at 6980 South River Reserve Court, rebuilt and reopened on 27 October 2016 with a sledding hill, a resurfaced basketball court and a softball field funded with county money. The ranked list covers what is worth a visitor's time among them.
The figures the EPA attaches to all this are worth stating exactly because they are the ones people round. As of December 2024 the agency recorded 64 on-site businesses on the Midvale Slag ground, employing 3,181 people and generating an estimated 1,445,188,201 dollars in annual sales revenue. Midvale City received the agency's Excellence in Site Reuse award in April 2015, the same period as the deletion.
A mining technology company put a research building on ground where five smelters ran, and a county is planning to run itself from a round office at the other end of the same site.
The two columns
What is built and what has only been approved.
The discipline this site applies to every redevelopment in the state applies here twice over, because two districts are being built at once and their timelines are different. Price what is standing. Treat everything else as upside with no date on it.
| Standing and open | Approved, planned or under way |
|---|---|
| The Bingham Junction platform on the Red Line, at 7387 South Bingham Junction Boulevard | Further phases on both districts, which continue to be approved and built out parcel by parcel |
| FLSmidth's regional headquarters, in two buildings at the View 72 Corporate Center | The county's move into the round building at 799 West Coliseum Way, published as a 2026 plan as of 8 August 2026 |
| The round 257,777 square foot office building, sold to Salt Lake County on 20 December 2024 | Whatever a future phase puts on the parcels that are still open ground on either district |
| Bingham Junction Park, rebuilt and reopened on 27 October 2016 | Any further park or trail connection described in planning rather than opened |
| The driving range, the supermarket, the retail and the homes already occupied | The remainder of the Jordan Bluffs neighbourhood plan, which is a 200 acre plan rather than a delivery schedule |
| At Jordan Bluffs, a roughly 400,000 square foot technology centre with a July 2022 ribbon cutting | Everything else in that plan, which is entitlement capacity rather than a promise |
Delivery status as published by the EPA, Salt Lake County, the City of Midvale and the occupiers, checked 8 August 2026. Redevelopment schedules move constantly and a phase approved this year can be redesigned next year, so take the current position from the city's planning records for any specific parcel. A described building has no opening date, and buying on the strength of one is buying a drawing.
Jordan Bluffs is the younger of the two districts and the one with more open ground left. The EPA publishes it as roughly 265 acres of mixed use development on the former Sharon Steel ground, and the city's neighbourhood plan for it covers about 200 acres. Its anchor is a technology centre of roughly 400,000 square feet, with a ribbon cutting in July 2022, built to LEED Platinum and published as welcoming approximately 1,500 technology, operations and other employees, standing on a bluff above the river trail.
Bingham Junction is the older district and it is largely built. That difference matters if you are weighing an address: one side of this ground is a finished neighbourhood with a rail platform in it, and the other is a plan part way through delivery with construction on it for years to come. Which of those you are buying next to is worth establishing before anything else, and it is the sort of question a partner agent settles with the city's planning records rather than with a brochure. The movers page takes that further.
How to use it
Three things worth doing on this side of the city.
Ride to it rather than driving to it, at least once. The Red Line platform sits inside the district rather than at the edge of it, which means arriving by rail puts you in the middle of the thing you came to look at and saves the exercise of working out where to park. It also tells you something a map will not: how the walk from a platform to an office, a shop and a park actually feels here.
Walk from the platform to the river. The distance is short and the transition is the point: a rail stop, a district, a wetland park and then a regional trail on the bank, on ground where the published remedy included stabilising those banks. Very few places in this valley let you walk that sequence in ten minutes.
And separate the two districts in your head while you are there, because on the ground they run together and on paper they do not. North of the line is the finished one. South is the one still being built. The county parkway page handles the trail as a whole system, and this companion keeps to what is inside the city boundary.
Keep reading
More of Midvale on The Local.
Things to do
The top 7, ranked
A mural street, a disc golf course, a museum open three afternoons, and a driving range.
Read the guideMain Street
Midvale Main, the arts district
Fifty murals, an art house, a food truck plaza and a street that lost its traffic to I-15.
Read the guideThe park
Midvale City Park and the museum
An amphitheatre, a disc golf course, a splash pad and a museum on the northeast corner.
Read the guideThe river
The Jordan River through Midvale
Two riverside parks, a trail on the west edge, and the ground it was built out of.
Read the guideMoving here
A small city in the middle
Five point eight square miles, three railway platforms, and what small area actually buys.
Read the guideThe companion
Midvale, the whole picture
Main Street, the park, the reclaimed ground, the river edge and the address, in one place.
Read the pageQuick answers
The district, answered.
The redevelopment district on the western side of Midvale, built on the Midvale Slag site. That site covers 446 acres where five smelters processed lead and copper ore between 1871 and 1958. The Environmental Protection Agency describes the ground today as carrying light rail infrastructure, homes, office space for national and international companies, a supermarket, retail stores and recreational amenities, and it includes a TRAX platform on the Red Line.
No, and this is the most common error about Midvale. They are two separate Superfund sites with separate records and separate dates. Midvale Slag is 446 acres, was listed in 1991 and was deleted from the National Priorities List in 2015; it became Bingham Junction. Sharon Steel, also recorded as Midvale Tailings, is about 470 acres, was cleaned by 1999 and its deletion took effect on 24 September 2004; it became Jordan Bluffs.
The Environmental Protection Agency's published record states that the remedy included soil excavation and removal, smelter waste and slag removal, groundwater monitoring, stabilisation of the Jordan River banks and institutional controls, that the agency issued a Ready for Reuse Determination on 23 May 2008, and that the site was deleted from the National Priorities List in 2015. Operation, maintenance and five year reviews continue after a deletion, which is a normal and documented part of the process.
It is a recorded instrument that governs what may be done with the ground, and it forms part of the published remedy on this site. Instruments of that kind surface in ordinary title work and are handled routinely by the title and conveyancing professionals who work in this valley. The practical approach is to ask for the documents that attach to a specific parcel, read them, and take anything unclear to the city or to the agency's public records rather than to a summary.
The Environmental Protection Agency recorded 64 on-site businesses as of December 2024, employing 3,181 people and generating an estimated 1,445,188,201 dollars in annual sales revenue. Named occupiers include FLSmidth's United States regional headquarters at 7158 South FLSmidth Drive, across about 90,000 square feet of LEED Gold office and a 67,000 square foot mineral processing technology centre, along with a supermarket, retail and a driving range at 920 Jordan River Boulevard.
That is the county's published plan. It bought the round 257,777 square foot office building at 799 West Coliseum Way, on 18.6 acres, in a transaction that closed on 20 December 2024 at 52 million dollars, having assessed that maintaining and renovating its existing complex would exceed 225 million dollars, and it published an intention to move government operations there during 2026. A bill allowing a county to maintain additional office space outside its county seat passed the Utah House unanimously. Confirm the current occupancy position with Salt Lake County.
Yes, on the Red Line, at 7387 South Bingham Junction Boulevard, around 930 West. It sits inside the district rather than at its edge, which is unusual and is the reason arriving by rail is a better way to see this ground than driving to it. Midvale's other two platforms, Midvale Fort Union and Midvale Center, are both on the Blue Line and are on the older side of the city.
More than at Bingham Junction, which is largely complete. The EPA publishes Jordan Bluffs as a roughly 265 acre mixed use parcel and the city's neighbourhood plan for it covers about 200 acres, anchored by a technology centre of roughly 400,000 square feet with a July 2022 ribbon cutting, built to LEED Platinum. The remainder is plan capacity rather than a delivery schedule, and phases continue to be approved and built parcel by parcel.
The Environmental Protection Agency maintains a public site profile for each of the two sites, carrying the site description, the remedy, the key dates and the reuse figures, and deletion notices are published in the Federal Register. The Utah Department of Environmental Quality holds its own records, and the City of Midvale holds the planning file for each parcel. For a specific address, the parcel level documents are the ones that matter rather than any summary, including this page.
Two districts, two files, and one of them is still being built.
Buying near ground with a federal file behind it is a records exercise rather than a leap of faith, and it is one that title and conveyancing professionals in this valley run every week. Send me the parcels you are looking at and I will put you with a Salt Lake County partner agent who works this side of the city and knows the planning file, while I take the homework and the financing side.
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