ICYMI: A new coalition of prominent Utahns is working to bring a Major League Baseball team to Utah as a part of a major redevelopment plan. Here's what a new MLB stadium could look like in the Power District in Salt Lake City. Read more:
SALT LAKE CITY — Dale Murphy recently toured Rocky Mountain Power's massive 100-acre campus near the banks of the Jordan River with a pair of Larry H. Miller Company executives when one of them, Don Stirling, focused his attention on the three large steam stacks above them.
"It's not a done deal but we are confident that it's going to happen," said Gail Miller, owner of the Larry H. Miller Company. "It only makes sense that Utah is on deck to become expansion team." That meeting led to the creation of Big League Utah, which has grown over the past three months to collect a large group of prominent Utahns.
Salt Lake City certainly isn't a shoo-in if MLB does create two new teams in the future. Music City Baseball in Nashville and the Portland Diamond Project in Portland, Oregon, are already vying for expansion franchises. If MLB does want a new team in the West, it could pit Salt Lake City and Portland against each other.
If that's not enough, Utah also has the youngest population in the nation along with its growth. Cox said that's something MLB "cares deeply about" as it considers expansion markets.
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