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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Salt Lake Tribune, 14 November 2004
Article Summary:
Fountain Green, a community of 900, raised $700,000 to restore its ruined dance hall and theater, built in 1918 and abandoned in the 1950s.
"It's brought our city together like nothing anyone could have ever imagined." (Scott Collard, Mayor)
