•
Building
announced April
6,1996
•Groundbreaking
held on July 24,
1997
• 21,000-person
seating capacity
in assembly building
• 900-person
seating capacity
in smaller theater
• The
largest religious
assembly hall in
the U.S.
• Four-level
parking on west
of building, two-level
parking on south
of building, with
a capacity of 1,300
vehicles
• 10,000
tons of structural
steel
• 15,000
tons of concrete-reinforcing
steel
• 50,000
miles of wire
• 780
miles of conduit
• 112,400
cubic feet of concrete
• Building
is on a full 10-acre
block
•
Building
is 1.5 million square
feet
•
Four
acres of landscaped
roof space
•
Building
holds 28 drinking
fountains and 340
toilets
•
Final
facing in granite
from Little Cottonwood
Canyon, same as
the Salt Lake Temple
Approximately
45,000 to 50,000
granite blocks for
exterior
•
Completion
of building April
2000
