A sales tax increase took effect in Salt Lake City on New Year’s Day to help fund an ambitious project to remake the capital city’s downtown, including renovating the Delta Center to accommodate NBA basketball and NHL hockey.
While Utahns aren’t big on having to pay more on their purchases in the city or seeing public money subsidize a sports venue per an earlier Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll , a new survey shows broad support for the proposed downtown sports, entertainment, culture and convention district and arena modifications.
HarrisX found in a poll of 854 Utah adults conducted for the Deseret News and Hinckley Institute Nov. 26-Dec. 5 that 63% favor establishing the zone, while 19% do not and 18% don’t know. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
Salt Lake County residents’ support of the plan matched that of Utahns statewide at 63%. Utah County and Davis County residents showed slightly higher support at 66% and 70%, respectively.