Take a look inside the Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake County's new 'jewel' venue for homegrown arts groups

Salt Lake County’s newest arts venue, the Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center, is a beautiful building, inside and out — with a full theater auditorium, black box theater space and a huge rehearsal area / meeting hall.

What’s unusual about it is that it’s not in downtown Salt Lake City — where the county’s other arts venues (Abravanel Hall, Capitol Theatre, Eccles Theater and Rose Wagner Center for the Performing Arts) are located. This $45 million “jewel” is in Taylorsville, on the county’s west side, and equidistant between the county’s twin population centers of Salt Lake City to the north and Sandy/Draper to the south.

I talked with the folks who will operate this new venue, and to people from some of the arts groups hoping to make it their new home.

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