Sandy Stadium

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Location	Sandy, Utah
Broke ground	August 12, 2006
Opened	2008 (expected)
Owner	Salt Lake County, Utah and Real Salt Lake
Construction cost	~$86 million USD (estimate)
Architect	Rossetti
Tenants
Real Salt Lake (MLS) (from 2008)
Capacity
~20,000 (expected)

The Sandy Stadium is a proposed soccer-specific stadium located in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy, built specifically for the local Major League Soccer team Real Salt Lake. The stadium symbolically broke ground on August 12, 2006, during a match between Real Salt Lake and Real Madrid after a major battle within the Salt Lake County Council during 2005 and 2006. Funding plans for the stadium were rejected twice before a revised proposal was introduced the day before Real Salt Lake owner Dave Checketts' self-imposed deadline on obtaining funding for a new stadium or selling the team. The stadium is expected to hold around 20,000 people.

The finacing plan for the stadium collapsed between January 26 and 29, 2007 after the Debt Review Committee voted to oppose the stadium plan as not viable. County mayor Coroon was obliged to agree as was Utah House Speaker Curtis.

However, a new stadium proposal was made on February 2, which would divert 15 percent, roughly $2 million a year, of the county's hotel taxes to the stadium project beginning in July until 2017. [1] The bill was passed by the State Senate, and later the assembly. The Governor signed the bill on February 9, 2007. [2] [3]