Ben Winslow is a reporter with FOX 13 covering a variety of topics including government, the Great Salt Lake, vice and polygamy.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Smith Entertainment Group detailed more of its plans for downtown, including the fate of Abravanel Hall and the Salt Palace.
The Smith Entertainment Group is proposing to take $900 million to help remodel the Delta Center to accommodate both an NHL team and the Utah Jazz. But the Delta Center would then be a funnel toward a new vision of downtown, where discussions with the International Olympic Committee are under way about making the district the new Medals Plaza. SEG committed it would invest about $3 billion of its own money into the district.
But Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson said the site of the Utah Symphony and other concerts is aging and in need of hundreds of millions of dollars in improvements. Salt Lake County owns Abravanel Hall and the Salt Palace. "They are supporting keeping what we have, but hoping that sometime we can do some restoration of what was taken," said Jani Iwamoto, a former state senator who now leads the Japanese Community Preservation Committee.
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