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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Obituary: Roy Smith
Deseret News, 21 August 2002, page B5
Article Summary:
Roy Smith, who was born 5 January 1904 in Murray, Utah, "started coming out to Magna in the Early 1920's to work at the old Empress Theater."
