SLC Council green-lights $22.8M soccer complex

By a 5-2 vote, Salt Lake City leaders approved a $22.8 million soccer complex along the Jordan River in the city’s northwest corner. It is scheduled to be done next fall. But the final release of 2003’s $15.3 million bond — and a $7.5 million “gift” from Real Salt Lake — comes seven years after city voters actually approved the now 16-field project. As now planned, the complex will sport 60 percent league play, 30 percent recreational play and 10 percent tournament play. But kids, or more likely families, will pay to play. The Salt Lake Tribune