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After years of being on the outside looking in, The Yard will officially be part of the Sundance Film Festival.
At an open house in Park City last week, as reported in The Park Record, Sundance's operations director Sarah Pearce announced that The Yard - a spacious building on Kearns Blvd. - will be an official festival venue in 2012.
In past years, The Yard has been a popular location for corporate "gifting suites" - where celebs and other hangers-on (a k a "swag hags") could get free clothes, gadgets and other stuff. The parking lot at The Yard has been used as a park-and-ride lot for festivalgoers.
Pearce didn't give details about how Sundance would use The Yard, The Park Record reported.