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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New Layton theaters take moviegoing to the next level
Deseret News, 4 June 1997, page B9
Article Summary:
Tinseltown USA opened just before Memorial Day in 1997 with 7 screens
and about 1600 seats. Features include "highback rocker seats, four-day
advance ticket sales, digital sound, a video arcade room, four large
concession areas and six box office stations." The largest auditoriums
seat 425, the medium size 260, and the smallest 135.