Salt Lake City
- The 26-acre City Creek Center project is scheduled for completion in 2012. Located across the street from the convention center and Historic Temple Square, the center will bring new dining and retail options and additional parking spaces to the city’s major meetings hub.
- The Leonardo (801.531.9800), a new science, technology and art center, is set to open in 2011 in downtown Salt Lake City. The 30,000-square-foot facility will offer exhibits, workshops and special events designed to engage and educate.
- Utah Museum of Natural History will open in early 2012. The state-of-the-art attraction will be located four miles from the convention district.
- Salt Lake City’s popular TRAX light rail line will provide a complimentary connection between Salt Lake City International Airport and the downtown convention district beginning in early 2013.
Park City
- Montage Deer Valley (435.604.1300) mountain resort will open in December 2010. The ski-in, ski-out property will boast 174 guest rooms, 20,000 square feet of meeting space and a 35,000-square-foot spa.
- Stein Eriksen Lodge (435.649.3700) expanded its spa from 4,300 square feet to more than 20,000 square feet last December. Utah’s only Forbes Five-Star, AAA Five Diamond property, the lodge offers 180 guest rooms and three meeting rooms.
Utah Valley
- Utah County Convention Center is scheduled to open in early 2012 in historic downtown Provo. The facility will offer 124,000 square feet of space.
- Redford Conference Center at Sundance Resort (877.831.6224) is slated to open this summer with nearly 3,500 square feet of meeting space. The resort currently offers 10,000 square feet of meeting space. Sundance is also in the midst of a multimillion-dollar renovation of its guest rooms.
Northern Utah
- Ogden Marriott (801.627.1190) underwent a complete renovation of all guest rooms, meeting space and public areas in 2009. The 292-room room property offers 16,000 square feet of meeting space.
- Holiday Inn Express (801.392.5000) in Ogden recently completed a guest room renovation. The property offers 75 guest rooms and one meeting room.
- The 72-room Comfort Inn (801.737.5660) recently opened off Interstate 15 in Ogden.
- The 124-room Hampton Inn and Suites (801.394.9400 ) in Ogden is currently undergoing a guest room update.
Southern Utah
- The new St. George Municipal Airport will open in January 2011. The replacement facility will be five times larger than the current airport.
- Hampton Inn (435.259.3030) recently opened in Moab, with 79 guest rooms and 550 square feet of meeting space.