Salt Lake City
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Little America Hotel (801.596.5700), sister property to Salt Lake City’s prestigious Grand America Hotel, unveiled upgraded meeting space last year. All existing 13 meeting rooms were completely transformed with aesthetic and technological enhancements, and three new meeting rooms were added, boosting the 850-room property’s total event space to more than 25,000 square feet.
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The Sheraton Salt Lake City Hotel (801.401.2000) recently underwent a $14 million transformation, including the renovation of all 362 guest rooms and 30 suites, 33,000 square feet of new meeting and conference space, an update of the hotel’s Italian-influenced Olio Restaurant and a new outdoor pool.
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Salt Palace Convention Center (801.534.4777) is installing the nation’s largest rooftop solar array. Scheduled to be completed and online by January, the 600,000-square-foot project, which includes 11,319 solar panels, will more than double the current solar capacity of the state of Utah and generate approximately 25 percent of the annual energy consumed at the center, resulting in estimated utility savings of more than $175,000 annually.
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Located across the street from the Salt Palace Convention Center, the $2 billion City Creek Center mixed-use development is scheduled for completion in March 2012. It will feature anchors Nordstrom and Macy’s, an upscale grocery store, 50 to 60 boutique shops, six restaurants, a food court and a creek that flows through 26 landscaped acres. With portions already open, the center also includes residences, offices and 6,000 underground parking spaces.
- The Utah Museum of Natural History (801.581.6927) at the University of Utah will close Jan. 1 in preparation for the opening of its new building in late 2011 or early 2012. The new facility, to be named the Rio Tinto Center, is expected to have space accommodating up to 1,500 people for off-site functions.
Park City
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Scheduled to open this month, Montage Deer Valley (435.604.1300) will become the latest addition to Park City’s "Luxury Accommodation Collection." Featuring 154 deluxe rooms and over 66 suites and residences ranging from one to four bedrooms, the property will feature 50,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting and event facilities, a 35,000-square-foot spa and three dining venues.
- The luxury Spa at Stein Eriksen Lodge (435.649.3700) underwent a 20,000-square-foot renovation in late 2009, quadrupling the previous space and doubling the number of treatment rooms.