Ballpark NEXT Design Competition
January 22, 2023 by Nicole Mason
Policy/Legislative
By Soren Simonsen
Happy New Year to Utah’s Urban Design professionals.
Many of you undoubtedly saw the announcement this week about the Salt Lake Bees moving to a new stadium in South Jordan at the end of the 2024 season. The Ballpark Community Council compiled the following summary of media coverage — from the historical and sentimental, to the impacts and community response.
Salt Lake City has announced a design competition to generate ideas for the future of the Smith’s Ballpark property after the team relocates — https://www.slc.gov/
We did not have our regular committee business meeting this month due to the holiday last Monday. Please join us for our next program on Monday, February 6 at noon, which will look at innovative transit and community development ideas from a grassroots initiative known as the Rio Grande Plan. We look forward to hearing from this initiative’s primary authors and initiators. Watch for more information about that in the coming days.
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