If Utah gets a Major League Baseball team, you might be able to catch a ballgame at the club’s home stadium one night and catch a concert there the next.
Officials with the Larry H. Miller Co. told The Salt Lake Tribune the most recent design of their planned Salt Lake City ballpark includes a space for a new amphitheater separate from the playing field.
“There’s actually a carveout as part of [the design],” CEO Steve Starks said, “where you could do an amphitheater-style concert venue to be able to get people there, which would be fun.”
Starks said the plan — if it comes to fruition — would help the firm keep the Power District, the ongoing redevelopment of land around the Gadsby Power Plant in the Fairpark neighborhood, active on days when there wouldn’t be baseball games. The company is still awaiting guidance from Major League Baseball on the next steps in the expansion process as it presses for a new team.
Starks said the league likely won’t look to add teams until after a new contract with the players’ union is finalized. An owners’ lockout of the players looms at the end of this season as a dispute simmers over a proposed salary cap.
The company’s vision for a gleaming district along North Temple includes apartments, hotel rooms, a refreshed Jordan River corridor, dining and office space. Now, it’s contemplating adding music to the list.
Starks pointed out that the firm’s other stadium project, The Ballpark at America First Square in South Jordan, has a bandstand in the plaza outside the main gate. That stage just hosted thousands for an ABBA cover band, he said.
When asked later how big the amphitheater in Salt Lake City could be and what kind of artists might play there, company spokesperson Amanda Covington said it was “too early” to know and that firm would “love to share once it’s evolved a bit.”
Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith’s downtown sports district is set to host a new, roughly 6,000-capacity venue, too, his Smith Entertainment Group announced last summer. Similar sports-centered neighborhoods across the country also have active auxiliary entertainment spaces, like The Novo next to Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena and the Coca-Cola Roxy in the Atlanta Braves’ Battery development.
Construction has begun at the Power District with work on the new Rocky Mountain Power headquarters moving along, company officials said.
And, despite the looming labor strife, Starks said the goal remains to have a big-league ballpark ready for 2030’s Opening Day.
Perhaps even with a concert the night before.

Jose Davila IV