Buying more properties?

This is obviously not something to be mad about

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Imagine a business owner spending money on properties that said business actually will own in a city that is cared for. Its fricking lunacy. OMG loud noises.

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Yes we know “ It is a very special city”

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She knows the Drew Brees statue is going up on top the empty Lee podium and is buying real estate while its low.

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Joey D needs a Bed & Breakfast Hotel.

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This is that dude whose name I can't recall that was posting just a constant stream of negative shite about completely fine things, isn't it?

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of course it is. we've had a surge of banned posters with aliases.

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Yes we know “ It is a very special city”

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Just because you can’t buy tires and an icee on the same day doesn’t mean she can’t buy half the damn city up and still have plenty left to build a space X rocket.

Utah Owner Ryan Smith

What Ryan Smith’s building in Utah is much bigger than the Mammoth and Jazz: ‘This is a movement’

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“Everything that he promised has been done,” captain Clayton Keller says. “And in crazy time, too.” It was only 17 months ago that Smith first introduced himself to the then-Arizona Coyotes during a fireside chat and a round of golf in Scottsdale. Smith, who was taking on a Herculean task of relocating the team to Salt Lake in a matter of months, asked players and staff what they needed. The response included everything from better travel and nutrition to, yes, a facility for training. He shakes his head at how far they’ve come. “We didn’t get into sports to be like, ‘Hey, we want to conquer the world,’” Smith tells The Athletic. “It was very much community-based. We really had to keep asking, ‘What are we doing?’ In a world that’s completely divided, (sports) bring everyone together. That’s our ‘why’ and what keeps us going.” No, Smith isn’t intending to build an “empire” here in Salt Lake. It just feels that way. Ryan and Ashley Smith’s company, Smith Entertainment Group, is gutting the 34-year-old Delta Center to make it more fan-friendly for both basketball and hockey. Plans are underway for a $3 billion-plus downtown overhaul by the arena, connecting the sports teams to the cultural and convention centers, with construction expected to be mostly complete before the 2034 Olympics. The Mammoth already boast a season-ticket base of 10,000 full-season equivalents for what will be a 12,266-seat capacity this season and around 17,000 after the upper bowl is renovated by the start of the 2027-28 season. They did not disclose the breakdown of this year’s season-ticket equivalents, but last year, they capped full-season packages at 8,000 and also sold partial-season packages that added up to another 2,500 full seasons. Smith’s summer project was a pledge to help build up to 20 local rinks, offering $500,000 each to get them started. According to SEG, five municipalities are now in different stages of development. Smith wants the Junior Mammoth program to mirror the Junior Jazz, which according to SEG is the largest youth basketball organization in the NBA with 70,000 participants.

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