Smith Entertainment Group, which owns the Utah Jazz and the Utah Mammoth, revealed a portion of the Delta Center renovation plan for this summer.
An email sent to Mammoth season ticket holders Tuesday, which was forwarded to the Deseret News, included an attached seating chart with significant differences to the upper bowl on the northeast side.
The new chart appears to show multiple balconies of seating in what is currently sections 101-106 and 138-140, behind the net, which the Mammoth defend for two periods each game. It also shows a tier of seating on the 600 level, which is where the Ford Fan Zone is currently located.
The chart does not show any differences on the southwest side of the arena.
Why are they renovating the Delta Center?
The Delta Center opened in 1991 and was built to NBA standards. With an NHL ice surface being more than 3½ times the size of an NBA court, it wasn’t a simple ask to get it to those standards.
The lower bowl underwent substantial renovations over the summer — the first of three phases to retrofit the building, which was built for basketball, to provide an optimal viewing experience for hockey.
In that first phase, they raised the playing surface by 2 feet, extended the end zones by 12 feet on each side and installed a first-of-its-kind scissor lift that can sit in one position for basketball and another for hockey.
It resulted in an extremely steep slope in the lower bowl behind the two nets, which provides a great view, but also requires some stamina to make it back up the stairs.
As it currently stands, every seat in the lower bowl has full-ice views for hockey, but the upper bowl has between 4,000 and 5,000 seats from which fans can only see one net. In the summers of 2026 and 2027, construction crews will address the upper bowl, though SEG has indicated in the past that circumstances may cause it to take longer.