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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Completes Option on Utah Theatre
Ogden Standard Examiner, 9 March 1925, page 6
Indications that construction work on the new community hotel is soon to begin on the present Reed hotel site at Twenty-fifth street and Washington avenue was given today when the purchase of the site now occupied by the Utah theatre was completed by A. P. Bigelow, president of the Reed Hotel company. The theatre ground was purchased from the D. H. Peery estate and has been under option by Mr. Bigelow for some time.
