Sugar Factory Playhouse
West Jordan, Utah
After the city bowery was demolished to make way for a new fire station, West Jordan Theater Arts opened the 230-seat Sugar Factory Playhouse in the city's old sugar factory. Inspired by Trolley Square, the West Jordan City Council planned to renovate the sugar factory and turn it into a cultural arts center with a larger auditorium, amphitheater, art gallery, conference center, reception hall, and retail center. Expensive seismic upgrades eventually doomed the project and the sugar factory was demolished by the end of 2010.
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Utah Business In brief
Salt Lake Tribune, 21 November 2003
Article Summary:
"Watching Thursday as signs were erected on the
53-year-old Villa Theatre, neighbors thought a deal to save the movie
house finally had gone through. Not yet, says a spokeswoman for
property owner Harmons. The crew of The WB network's Everwood
television series is using it as a set. There is still no word on a
sale that could save the 1,000-seat theater, which closed in February."
