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Originally Posted by delts145
When the Salt Palace was built it acted as more of a protective wall for all points east at the time. Now with so much development and improvement west of the CC these past 23 years, it's time to rethink its massing. The CC should be reconfigured into something more like a vibrant multi-storied centerpiece for the entire downtown area. If done right we could actually end up as grateful that it's located at the center of downtown and not as a wall against I-15.
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Large conferences do not want the square footage spread over multi-stories, they want large areas or mass square footage on the same level. This is why all the biggest CCs are exactly that, they may have 2-3 levels max but they all eat up a lot of land. Chicago, LA, San Diego, Vegas, New Orleans, Phoenix. I’ve been to quite a few of these.
You either want big conventions or you don’t. Salt Palace is in a bad spot, Phoenix is too. Both create a bit of a dead space between two areas the cities have more activity in. Not too sure it can be fixed well, trying to think of any examples where it works well….