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.
Menu
Development plans outlined for old Utah mill site
Anchorage Daily News, 8 September 2013
Article Summary:
@geneva development:
- 7,600 residential units
- 11 million square feet of available space total
- 20,000 jobs
- Utah Valley University purchased 100 acres for new classrooms and intramural fields, with an option to buy 125 more acres
Megaplex Theater:
- accomodates up to 3,000 people
- 100 full and part-time jobs
Geneva Steel Mill:
- along the east shore of Utah Lake
- permanently shut down in 2002
- built with federal funds during World War II
