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This is Marty Carpenter filling in for Lane Beattie of the Salt Lake Chamber with your Utah Business Report.
Hale Centre Theatre recently announced it will move from its home of 16 years in West Valley City to a new theater in Sandy.
Sandy City accepted an offer from Hale to purchase an 11-point-five-acre site at 99-50 Monroe Street in Sandy. Terms are waiting approval from HCT's Board of Trustees and the Sandy City Council.
The Hale board determined that to better accomplish the theatre's mission of providing affordable world-class family theatre and to meet growing demand, it is necessary to expand. After all, Hale is the highest-attended community theatre in the country, operating at 99-plus percent capacity since 2004.
The new site will feature three performance spaces with a total of 18-hundred seats—that's triple the size of its current space. The new centre stage theatre will be slightly larger than the existing facility with one additional row and improved legroom.
It will cost 65 million to build the new state-of-the-art theatre in Sandy. Anticipated completion of the new Hale Centre Theatre will be in 2017.
This is Marty Carpenter for KSL News Radio.
