Losing the Utah Theater would be very sad, but sometimes a real effort is made to preserve something and it just doesn't work out. $40+ million to restore a theater that may never get used for anything is a big ask, and from the sounds of it, no private developer or non-profit was willing to touch it. Downtown Salt Lake City has quite a lot of theater space already, and it's hard to imagine another theater finding enough of a niche to justify the restoration cost.
Also, if that's really what we get as a replacement, then I'm sold. As others have said, however, we should get 100% assurance that it would actually get built before demolition.
UTA destroying that old warehouse is a shame though. I agree that would have been a great space to repurpose and revitalize that area.
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Originally Posted by Utah_Dave
I’m having a hard time pulling up the photos using my phone. What meeting date do you click on for the link to this new tower renderings.
Thanks for Sharing!
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It's the August 20th RDA meeting minutes. You have to scroll nearly to the bottom of the PDF.
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Originally Posted by taboubak
Just a quick question. Does anyone know what is taking Liberty Sky so long? Any chance the project wont happen?
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I was wondering this myself the other day as I walked past. Then again, if it's still slated for Q3 as I heard before, then there's still another month in that timeframe. I did hear "the end of summer" brought up before, but if anybody in the know has any updates that would be great.