Ogden Completes Salomon Center
posted - Jun 7th, 2007
image by: Santiago Carrizosa
The wind tunnel wraps up construction at the Salomon Center.
The Salomon center is a $19.5 million high-adventure recreation center that opens July 15th. It is being described as the city's crown jewel.
Following a news conference to announce the facility's new moniker as the Salomon Center, one of the brands of the Amer Sports Corp., which is moving its North American headquarters to the American Can Co. complex in May, the 125,000- square-foot building was shown off to the media.
The first floor of the structure, encompassing nearly 66,000 square feet of space, will house FatCats Fun Center, including an arcade, 32-lane bowling alley, billiard room, glow-in-the-dark miniature golf, bumper cars, children's play area, a sporting good shop, Champ's Sport Bar, Costa Vida Fresh Mexican Grill, The Pizza Factory and Striker's Grill.
Original artist's renderings of the Salomon Center
On the center's 59,000- square-foot second floor will be iFLY Utah a twelve foot re-circulating tunnel and Gold's Gym, featuring a health-and-fitness center, indoor track, basketball and racquetball courts, whirlpool, steam room, sauna, lap pool and an aerobics room.
The IBA did Phase I of the training at SkyVenture Colorado and Phase II of the training at the new tunnel in Ogden. Training was led by IBA Examiner Rusty Lewis and was assisted by Davy Manning who is on track to get his Trainer Level IV rating in the near future.
