Utah Performing Arts Center

What is the Utah Performing Arts Center?

The Utah Performing Arts Center is a proposed 2,500-seat, state-of-the-art theater located in the heart of Utah's capital city on Main Street's Block 70, between 100 and 200 South. The Center helps to fulfill community leaders' longtime vision for a vibrant capital city – rich in the arts – that belongs to all of Utah.

Request for Qualifications

RFQ for Architectural and Engineering Design Services

The RDA’s developer, Garfield Traub Swisher Development, LLC, will be issuing a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for Architectural and Engineering Design Services for the Design and Construction of the new Utah Performing Arts Center (UPAC). The RFQ will be made available to all interested firms on Sunday, April 29, and can be downloaded from www.utahperformingartscenter.org. It is expected that a newspaper advertisement will be placed effective the weekend of April 29 and run again on May 6, 2012. Please refer to the RFQ when it is posted for further information related to this procurement process.

Click here for a copy of the UPAC AE RFQ

RFQ Addenda No 1 (5/9/12)

RFQ for Construction Management Services: New Issue Dates
5/10/12

The RDA’s developer, Garfield Traub Swisher Development, LLC, will be issuing a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for Construction Management Services for the Design and Construction of the new Utah Performing Arts Center (UPAC). The RFQ will be made available to all interested CM firms on Sunday, May 20, and can be downloaded from www.utahperformingartscenter.org. It is expected that a newspaper advertisement will be placed effective the weekend of May 20 and run again on May 27, 2012. Please refer to the RFQ when it is posted for further information related to this procurement process.

"The overall plan for the Theater District is outstanding, in our view, and needs to proceed apace."

-Jan and Erland Elmer

"Remember...if you build it, they will come."

-Randy Olsen

"Leveraging the new vitality of City Creek is this generation's centennial moment."

- Geralyn Dreyfous

"It's the final cog in making downtown a true urban art center and, as such, should be a public-run and funded entity."

-Kurt Bestor

"I have always said that good theatre begets good theatre, so we welcome high quality theatre venues in town. "

-Mark Dietlein

"This new facility will help Utah move a step up the ladder in attracting major, first-run touring Broadway shows."

-Bob Higginson

"It will revitalize the downtown area, bringing more people into the blocks surrounding the theater to visit shops and restaurants.

-Katherine Potter

"It would be a coup for Utah to attract major, first-run touring Broadway shows."

-Diane Ward

"I love the historic feel on Main Street and I also love the forward thinking approach of Salt Lake City."

-Chad Farnes

"We always bring out-of-state visitors to downtown Salt Lake via TRAX. Visitors always remark what a clean, safe, architecturally interesting, eclectic and well planned city center it is."

-Steve and Mary B. Horton