![]() ![]() ![]() That meeting led to the creation of Big League Utah, which has grown over the past three months to collect a large group of prominent Utahns. "We now consider Utah to be the future of America's pastime." "Based on those conversions, we have reason to believe we are a very viable candidate city and candidate market," Starks said. They were told that the league is thinking about creating two new clubs, one in the East and one in the West. Starks revealed Wednesday that he and other Miller Company officials had met MLB commissioner Rob Manfred in New York City to talk about bringing an expansion team to Salt Lake City. The company announced earlier this year that it will move the team from Smith's Ballpark to a future site in South Jordan in 2025.Īs it turns out, the company quietly had bigger aspirations for Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Bees, owned by the Miller Company, brought Triple-A baseball back to the city in 1994. However, that history thus far has been reserved for the minor leagues. It received that name because it's been home to Derks Field and then Smith's Ballpark for over a century, hosting a slew of different professional teams in that time. The push to call Utah up to the big leaguesīaseball is rich in Salt Lake City's history, though most of it has been in the aptly named Ballpark neighborhood. The baseball announcement came moments before the company broke ground on the first of a series of projects expected to completely change the campus into Salt Lake City's new Power District in the coming years. If successful, it would be the largest fixture of a 100-acre redevelopment of the Rocky Mountain Power land, which is beginning to change. "It only makes sense that Utah is on deck to become (the next) expansion team." ![]() "It's not a done deal but we are confident that it's going to happen," said Gail Miller, owner of the Larry H. Spencer Cox to current Jazz owner Ryan Smith to Murphy and even actor Ty Burrell. Miller Company and the Miller family, the former Utah Jazz owners, it is composed of dozens of major business leaders, politicians and sports figures, bringing in everyone from Utah Gov. The group announced Wednesday that they are petitioning MLB to bring an expansion club to Salt Lake City. Miller CEO Steve Starks were there to scout out a preferred location for the project as a part of a large coalition called Big League Utah that is now throwing its hat in the ring for a major league team. Murphy, a former seven-time MLB All-Star and two-time MVP, Stirling and Larry H. Whether that's a sign or a coincidence doesn't matter those three steam stacks could one day overlook a Major League Baseball stadium. "We looked at them and (Stirling) goes 'You know, those look like baseball bats,'" Murphy recalled, standing a few hundred feet from those same smokestacks Wednesday afternoon. Miller Company executives when one of them, Don Stirling, focused his attention on the three large steam stacks above them. Rocky Mountain Power owns approximately 100 acres along North Temple and intends to redevelop those 100 acres to what is being referred to as “the Power District Campus.” As part of its first steps, Rocky Mountain Power asked the Council to rezone a section of the property so it can construct a new headquarters building for its operations.SALT LAKE CITY - Dale Murphy recently toured Rocky Mountain Power's massive 100-acre campus near the banks of the Jordan River with a pair of Larry H. Transit Station Area-Special Purpose-Core District (TSA-SP-C) The purpose of a TSA zone is to provide an area that is attractive to public transit, walkable and contains a mix of commercial and residential uses. ![]() Rocky Mountain Power asked the Council to rezone portions of 1219 W, 1223 W, 1275, and 1407 West North Temple to a Transit Station Area, or TSA, zone ( TSA-Urban Center-Core). The Council approved a request to rezone approximately 5.5 acres of property owned by Rocky Mountain Power near North Temple and the Jordan River. Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFR). ![]()
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