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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Arts centers: one, 2 or 23?
Deseret News, 10 April 2000, page B1
Article Summary:
County Commissioner Gary Herbert says it's not realistic to have a cultural arts facility in every city in Utah county and is organizing a county arts council to consider where it should be built. Ray Carter, who has been raising funds for an arts center in Lehi, has seen a slowdown in fund raising following Herbert's actions, but still expected to break ground in June.
