Utah’s Delta Center undergoes continued renovations to make it an ideal home for both NBA and NHL teams.
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As the Delta Center undergoes a continued renovation in Salt Lake City to further cement it as a home for both the NBA and NHL, the NBA’s Utah Jazz plans a new practice facility alongside the Utah Mammoth Ice Center.
Smith Entertainment Group (SEG), owners of both the Mammoth and the Jazz, have a two-year plan to continue recreating the Salt Lake City arena. The new practice facility announcement, alongside a sports medicine center, will place both team’s training centers on the same campus with a healthcare provider, what Ryan Smith, chairman and CEO of SEG, calls an “important step in creating Utah as a destination market for professional athletes.”
The next step for the Delta Center happens this offseason. The arena’s upper north end zone will soon feature new terrace-style ledges with full-view seating for what the team calls a more connected and immersive experience. Suspended “gondolas” along both sidelines will offer a bird’s-eye view of the event floor for over 200 fans with unique hospitality and gathering spaces. A new parking structure on the same property as the arena will also get completed this offseason.
A new sports medicine facility will join a new training center for the Utah Jazz alongside the training center for the Utah Mammoth on one campus in Sandy, Utah.
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In 2027, major construction features a new slope design to connect the upper and lower levels of the seating bowl while shifting the sightlines to mesh the needs of hosting both the NBA and NHL. Renovations to suites will begin on the north side in 2026 and finish in 2027. Additional upgrades include added food and beverage options, updated concourses and concession locations, fresh social areas, new restroom capacity and expanded club spaces.
The new Jazz practice facility will serve as a central piece in the sports campus SEG is building in Sandy, Utah. The Mammoth facility is already open, and the site will also house SEG’s business offices and the newly announced sports medicine center. Construction has started at the site, with the expectation that the Intermountain Health Sports Performance Center opens in 2028. Smith hasn’t laid out a timeline for the NBA training center’s opening.
“The SEG sports campus—with two brand new, state-of-the-art practice facilities combined with a world-class sports medicine center—it unlike anything in the NBA and NHL,” Smith says. “Having a single ownership group and a single healthcare provider across both teams will allow us to innovate, share best practices and build toward the integrated care that is the future.”
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Rob Allen, president and CEO of Intermountain Health, says that the group’s sports medicine teams will work alongside the Jazz and Mammoth organizations.
The sports performance center aligns with SEG’s continued development of the Shops at South Town in Sandy, a 111-acre site SEG acquired in August 2024. Smith plans to continue developing the area as a destination for sports and entertainment.