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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Sandy to buy land that was planned for Proscenium
Deseret News, 22 September 2009
Article Summary:
- plans for the Proscenium development have been scraped due to the developer's funding drying up
- Sandy City plans to purchase the 5 acres from Scott McQuarrie for $5 million, then lease to a developer
- the land appraised at $8.7 million in December 2008, but was revised to $5.5 million last month
- the original Proscenium plans called for 40-story, 600-foot towers
- new plans could still include a theater, apartments, condominiums, or commercial development
