Delta Center

Located in downtown Salt Lake City and the home court of the NBA Utah Jazz. The building originally opened as the Delta Center on Oct. 7, 1991. With seating capacity of about 20,000, the facility is the largest, most high-tech arena within a five-state radius and was built faster than any other arena at the time of its construction in 15 months and 24 days.

Delta Center is home of the Utah Jazz NBA, and the Utah Hockey Club NHL franchise and serves as the region’s premier sports and entertainment venue in downtown Salt Lake City. It hosts more than 320 days of sports and entertainment events each year – ranging from NBA and NHL games to concerts by world-renowned musicians and other acts, welcoming approximately 1.8 million guests annually.

Delta Center has hosted iconic events such as the 1993 and 2023 NBA All-Star Weekends, two NBA Finals, and the 1999 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, as well as figure skating and short track speed skating events at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Delta Center has also featured some of the biggest names in the entertainment world with Garth Brooks, Taylor Swift, U2, and The Rolling Stones among its most prominent concert draws.

The state-of-the-art arena, which completed a $125 million renovation in 2017, features six upgraded seating levels and notable features such as a 12,000-foot atrium with a plaza that greets guests with a supersized Jazz note as the centerpiece, energy-generating solar panels, revamped locker rooms, LED technology on the videoboards, and its first-ever premium seating area in the upper bowl.

Fun Facts The total estimated cost of the future renovation is set at $525 million and is part of a larger $900 million investment into the Downtown Salt Lake Entertainment District.

The Delta Center in Salt Lake City, UT, holds approximately 20,000 seats for concerts. For basketball games (Utah Jazz), it has a seating capacity of 18,306. For ice hockey (Utah Hockey Club), the capacity is up to 16,200.

The footprint is 3.79 acres 100,000 cubic yards of concrete 80,300 square feet of glass 500,000 concrete blocks 21,000 square yards of carpet 3 million pounds of structural steel 7.6 million pounds of rebarb.