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Article: Downtown design -- Act 2: City agency gives S.L. library architects a shot at Broadway-style theater
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 14, 2009
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Even as they were building Salt Lake City's award-winning
downtown library, architects Moshe Safdie and Steve Crane had eyes
for another part of the city.
"We talked a lot at that time about Main Street," said Crane, of
VCBO Architects.
On Tuesday, the Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency gave the duo
a shot at designing and building what officials believe will be a
major piece in downtown's revival: a 2,500-seat, Broadway-style
theater on Main Street.
The RDA voted to negotiate exclusively with a development,
construction and architect team that includes Crane and Safdie, to
build the theater.
Garfield Traub Swisher beat out Hines Interests, an international
firm that owns the Kearns ...