Owners of NBA’s Jazz and NHL’s Utah Hockey Club unveil renovation plans to add seats to arena | Sports
The owners of the NHL’s Utah Hockey Club and NBA’s Jazz are beginning a massive renovation of their downtown Salt Lake City Arena that will eventually increase hockey capacity to roughly 17,000 and basketball to nearly 19,000 fans. Smith Entertainment Group announced its plan Wednesday after a meeting of the Salt Lake City Council earlier in the week. Officials said the initial stage of renovations this summer should boost the number of full-ice view seats by 1,400: 1,000 new ones and upgrading 400 that had a sightline of just one end of the rink in the team’s first season in the city. After a historic season welcoming the NHL to Utah, Delta Center is about to be transformed into a fundamentally new dual-use arena.The basketball experience will remain one of the loudest in the NBA with seats as close to the action as before, hockey fans will enjoy better… pic.twitter.com/Jod3OXFZkf — Delta Center (@deltacenter) April 30, 2025 “Just in Year 1 (post-renovations) we’re going to see a great improvement for the lower-bowl capacity for hockey,” Jazz president Jim Olson said on a video call with reporters. Rendering of the newly remodeled Delta Center to better accommodate both hockey and basketball.