Salt Palace Name Change
Staff -- Tradeshow Week, 10/15/2007
The Salt Palace Convention Center is getting a new name, but if you didn't read it here, you may have never known it.
The Salt Lake County Council has approved changing the facility's name to the Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center. However, the Salt Lake Convention & Visitors Bureau doesn't plan to change the way it refers to the center in its marketing materials and programs, or in its day-to-day operations.
Salt Lake County owns the Salt Palace, and SMG manages it.
SLCVB spokesman Shawn Stinson said, "The name change was made to honor Rampton, a three-term Utah governor who has been credited with bringing the state into the modern age of tourism development. He saw meetings and conventions as a great way to accomplish that."
Rampton recently died at age 93, and the state legislature thought the name change was a fitting way to honor him.
Although Rampton's name will be added to signage on the building, Stinson added, CVB staff and most other people will still refer to it by its current name, which has been used since the original Salt Palace was built in 1899.
