Salt Lake City’s new entertainment district between the Delta Center and the Salt Palace Convention Center could have a new fixture in the near future: a 6,000-seat indoor music venue.
Smith Entertainment Group announced Tuesday it would partner with Live Nation — one of the largest entertainment companies in the world — to build a new indoor music venue as part of the ongoing efforts to create a new entertainment district Downtown.
The new 6,000-seat indoor venue is “the first of many major announcements regarding SEG’s plans” for the entertainment district between the two venues, according to a Tuesday news release from SEG.
“Our goal has always been to bring enormous opportunities to downtown,” said Ryan Smith, SEG chairman and CEO, in the news release. “Once the transformation of Delta Center was underway, partnering with Live Nation on what a world-class concert venue could look like in downtown became a top priority. Not only will it bring the best artists in the world to Utah, but it will also bring a million people downtown to experience Salt Lake City every year.”
In addition to being a music venue, the news release also says the venue would be able to host, “a variety of corporate, conference, and community events.”
The venue’s mid-size capacity would range from 2,000 to 6,000, the news release says, which would fill a gap in Salt Lake City’s concert market. Many of the city’s indoor concert venues like The Union, Eccles Theater or Abravenel Hall don’t have capacities above 4,000 — while larger venues like the Delta Center or West Valley City’s Maverik Center can each comfortably hold over 10,000 guests.
The Tuesday announcement is the latest development for the area’s planned overhaul that’s been funded largely with taxpayer money. More recently, the Utah Department of Transportation confirmed 300 West would be reconstructed to allow the street to go beneath a pedestrian plaza, though the street wouldn’t be buried as deep as 200 West.
SEG is currently building a 95-foot, 452-stall parking structure to the southwest of the Delta Center and fronting 100 South, which was just recently approved by the Salt Lake City Planning Commission.
In the news release, SEG makes clear there will be future announcements detailing the entertainment plaza, though detailed plans have not been made public.
“Both SEG and Live Nation will be committing considerable financial investment into the development of this venue,” Smith said in the release. “This is the first of many announcements as we continue to work at attracting the best and most influential brands in the world to invest in our state.”
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