Sandy – The purchase of Real Salt Lake by the Miller family could lead to a new sports and entertainment district to bring together public transport, restaurants and other equipment in the blocks surrounding America’s first land in Sandy.
At the announcement of Purchase of the Major League football club And the Utah Royals of Miller Sports and Entertainment Friday, Steve Starks, CEO of Larry H. Miller Company, described the experience that the company hopes to cultivate around the house of Real Salt Lake.
“The place as a place of experience is really important in sport now,” he said. “This is not only what is happening in the field – it’s above all – but that’s where you can eat before the game. This is where you can park, the ease of experience, other amenities added.”
The potential entertainment district to Sandy could resemble the plans for a Entertainment and congress district Around the Delta Center at Salt Lake City.
Starks said the company planned to use what it learned from renovations to the Delta Center in 2017 and the recent construction of a new stadium For the bees from Salt Lake to Daybreak to enlighten “improvements to improve the experience of the game day”. The Miller company already has the megapplexes of Jordan Commons, located just east of America, which, with the Mountain America exhibition center, just in front of the South, creates additional prints in the region, according to Starks.
“There are already a lot of activities at this intersection. We look at it, and there are opportunities everywhere to improve experience,” he said.
The city of Sandy has already offered a Stade village master plan To explore the improvement of access to transits, retail, sports and meals in the region of America First Field, and mayor Monica Zoltanski said that the city had an “incredible opportunity” to work with the thousands in the future.
“We are considering a district that includes sports, entertainment, housing, retail, restaurants, convention hotels for this region, because it is at the center of such an important transit corridor between Trax and I-15,” she told KSL.com. “So when we heard of the idea, the chance to work with such a successful family business that is so invested in Sandy … Of course, we have adopted the idea, because now we can really launch this master plan for the area around the stadium and the stadium itself.”
Zoltanski said the plans are at the first stadiums, but the city is “determined to build the city’s infrastructure” while postponing the thousands to “give rhythm and vision”. But, she said, “I think that the city’s visions, from my discussions with the Miller group, are very aligned on the hotel, housing, public transport connectivity, retail, the facility of the trax rider at the gates of the stadium itself.”
She said that the city had already worked to add infrastructure on Monroe Street, just west of the stadium near the I-15, where the city’s fire service will have its headquarters. The city invests “nearly $ 50 million” and works with the State Transport Department to make the region more accessible.
However, the details of how the area will be developed belongs to the new owners of Real Salt Lake.
“We made the basics,” said Zoltanski. “But … we are not manufacturers. We must associate with people who have the capacity to successfully develop. And what developers are of interest is to work with well -managed cities that have a growth plan, and we have it in Sandy.”