The arena West Valley City
A municipal building with two Olympic dates on it
The Maverik Center, and the sport it is booked for next
An arena at 3200 South Decker Lake Drive that the City of West Valley City owns outright, opened in September 1997, built for 54.1 million dollars, and an Olympic ice hockey venue five years later. It holds 10,100 for ice and curtains down to about 3,700 for a small show, parking is free with your ticket, and a light rail platform sits at the door. Here is the building, what changed in April 2026, and what 2034 now asks of it.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
The Maverik Center is a city-owned arena at 3200 South Decker Lake Drive in West Valley City. It opened in 1997, hosted ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics, and is on the venue plan again for the 2034 Games, this time for figure skating and short track speed skating. Its resident hockey club, the Utah Grizzlies, played their last game on 12 April 2026 and moved to New Jersey, so a winter visit is no longer an ice night by default. Parking is free with your ticket, and a light rail platform sits at the door.
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The building
A city owns this arena, which is the fact that explains the rest
The Maverik Center stands at 3200 South Decker Lake Drive, on the east side of West Valley City, and the first thing worth knowing is who owns it. This is a municipal building. The City of West Valley City owns the arena outright and Centennial Management Group runs it day to day, which is why a room that behaves in every visible way like a commercial venue sits on a city balance sheet and answers to a mayor. It is also why parking is included rather than sold, and why the mayor talks publicly about the building's future.
Construction started in 1996 and the doors opened on 22 September 1997, with a live wrestling broadcast, under the name E Center. It cost 54.1 million dollars to build. Maverik bought the naming rights in 2010, and the building has carried that name since. The room holds 10,100 for ice, 12,500 for basketball, up to about 12,000 for a concert and 12,600 for wrestling, and it curtains down to a theater setup of about 3,700 when the act is smaller. That last number is worth checking before you buy, because the two rooms are not remotely alike.
Five years after it opened it was an Olympic venue, staging the 2002 ice hockey tournament across 31 sessions in six days and the sledge hockey tournament at the Paralympics that followed. For 2034 it is on the venue plan again, and the sport has changed. The sections below take the building, what happened to its tenants in April 2026, and what the next decade asks of it.
The arena in numbers
1997
the year it opened, as the E Center
10,100
seats for ice, and 12,500 for basketball
31
Olympic sessions staged here across six days in 2002
3,700
the floor of the curtained theater setup
What changed in 2026
The building lost the hockey club it had carried since the doors opened
Almost everything written about this arena before spring 2026 describes a hockey building with other events in it. That is no longer the shape of the calendar, and the difference matters if you are planning a visit between November and March.
The Utah Grizzlies had played here since the building opened in 1997, and in the valley for 31 seasons. Their last game was on 12 April 2026, and the franchise moved to Trenton, New Jersey, to skate as the Ironhawks from the 2026-27 season. The arena has no resident hockey club now. In its place, an indoor football team, the Utah Great 8's, joined the International Arena League in 2026, and the Salt Lake City Stars of the NBA G League, here since 2022, are now the longest-running tenant in the building.
| Until April 2026 | From the 2026-27 season | |
|---|---|---|
| The winter anchor | The Utah Grizzlies, a minor league hockey club in the building since it opened in 1997 | No resident ice club. The winter calendar is concerts, basketball and family shows |
| Where that club went | Here, on Decker Lake Drive | Trenton, New Jersey, as the Ironhawks, after a final game on 12 April 2026 |
| Basketball | The Salt Lake City Stars of the NBA G League, here since 2022 | Unchanged, and now the longest-running tenant in the building |
| New team | None | The Utah Great 8's, indoor football in the International Arena League, from 2026 |
| The championship on the books | Announced | The U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 5 to 10 January 2027, the first time in Utah since 1999 |
| What that means for a visit | A reliable weeknight ice game through the winter | Check the calendar rather than assuming; the room is busy but the pattern is different |
Tenants and calendars change. Check the arena's schedule before you travel for a specific game.
The stage inside the arena has its own sponsor name now. In January 2026 Canyon View Credit Union bought the naming rights to the arena's stage, so some listings show the venue name, the stage name, or both, for the same room at the same address. If a ticket and a map disagree, go by the street: 3200 South Decker Lake Drive is the building either way.
The Olympic thread
Hockey in 2002, figure skating in 2034
In February 2002 this building was one of the two ice hockey venues for the Salt Lake Winter Games, working through 31 sessions in six days, and it went on to host the sledge hockey tournament at the Paralympics that followed. A suburban arena that had been open for four and a half years took an Olympic tournament and has traded on it ever since, reasonably enough, because very few buildings its size anywhere have that on the record.
The 2034 plan reuses the 2002 venue set, and this arena is on it. What changed is the sport. It will host figure skating and short track speed skating, not hockey. The switch was set in motion in October 2024, when the owner of Salt Lake City's new NHL team announced Olympic hockey would go to his downtown arena, the Delta Center, instead. Mayor Karen Lang has said she is glad to have the figure skating draw. A venue plan can still move before a Games, but this is the assignment the organizers and the city are working to.
The work that implies is real, and the price is not settled. A 2023 funding request listed 20 million dollars for seats, locker rooms, restrooms, infrastructure, restaurant and concession areas, luxury suites and video boards, and the organizing committee's own budget sets aside a much smaller sum across every venue in the plan. The mayor has described the priority as security, seismic and modernization work rather than a rebuild, with the aim of having the building ready by 2030.
A building that was five years old when it took its first Olympic tournament is scheduled to take a second, in a sport it was not first assigned.
Getting in and out
Free parking, and a rail platform close enough to walk from
This is the easiest of the city's big venues to reach, because it has both a large amount of included parking and a light rail station on its doorstep. Here is how the two compare on a sold-out night.
| By car | By rail | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | Nothing extra. Parking is included with your ticket rather than sold separately | A standard UTA fare from anywhere on the network |
| Where you end up | Lots A, B and C on the arena grounds, with lot D at 3100 South and Decker Lake Drive | Decker Lake station, at about 3070 South 2200 West, immediately next to the building |
| How it fills | First come, first served, so the close spaces go to the early arrivals | Frequency rather than space is the constraint, particularly late |
| Leaving | The whole lot leaves at once, which is the slow part of the evening | A platform walk and a short wait, usually the faster exit |
| Best for | Anyone coming from the west side of the valley, where rail does not reach | Anyone coming from downtown, the university corridor or the airport |
| Watch for | Lot D is a separate site across an intersection, not part of the grounds | The last departure of the night, which is the thing that catches people out |
Check the current UTA timetable before you count on a late train home.
Check which configuration your event is in before you judge the seat you bought. This room works at four or five different sizes. A full arena concert seats up to about 12,000, basketball runs at 12,500, ice ran at 10,100, and a curtained theater setup takes it down to about 3,700. A seat number that looks distant on a full arena chart can be close in the theater setup, and a cheap upper seat in the big setup is a genuinely long way from the stage. Read the event listing rather than the venue chart.
Close by
Three more stops within a short drive of the arena
The eastern half of this city packs most of its public ground into a small area, and three of the four things worth doing here are within a short drive of Decker Lake Drive. That makes an arena night easy to build a whole afternoon around.
Across the road
Decker Lake and its loop
Thirty acres of water, a paved mile and a third around it, and 184 recorded bird species.
The ranked listTen minutes east
Four free galleries
No admission charge, free parking, and an eight ton basalt head standing on the grounds outside.
The centerThe boundary
The river and its trailhead
A rail platform named for a trail, a dock park beside it, and the crossing this city began at.
The river pageDays out
Weekends in the valley
How this arena's calendar sits against everything else the county offers on a Saturday.
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Things to do
The top 8, ranked
An Olympic arena, an eight ton stone head, and a lake a freeway excavation left behind.
Read the guideThe amphitheater
The amphitheater, renamed
The state's largest outdoor stage, renamed in 2024, with free parking and a clear bag rule.
Read the guideThe center
The Cultural Celebration Center
Four free galleries, an eight ton Olmec head from Veracruz, and a summer stage outdoors.
Read the guideThe river
The Jordan River crossing
A rail platform named for a trail, a dock park beside it, and the ford the city began at.
Read the guideMoving here
Utah's second largest city
Second largest in Utah, forty six years old, and still assembling a downtown on purpose.
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West Valley City, the whole picture
The arena, the amphitheater, the free galleries, the river crossing and the address, together.
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The arena, answered
The City of West Valley City owns the building, and Centennial Management Group operates it. That is unusual for an arena of this size and it explains a few things a visitor notices, including why parking is included rather than sold and why the city's mayor speaks publicly about the venue's future. It opened on 22 September 1997 as the E Center, at a construction cost of 54.1 million dollars, and took the Maverik name when the company bought the naming rights in 2010.
Nothing extra. Parking is included with your ticket rather than sold separately, in lots A, B and C on the arena grounds and lot D at the corner of 3100 South and Decker Lake Drive, all on a first come basis. Because there is no reserved tier to buy, the only way to get a close space is to arrive early. Decker Lake TRAX station, at about 3070 South 2200 West, is immediately next door if you would rather not wait in the exit line.
It depends on the configuration, and this is the single most useful thing to check before buying. Published capacities are 10,100 for ice hockey, 12,500 for basketball, up to about 12,000 for a concert and 12,600 for wrestling. There is also a curtained theater setup that brings the room down to about 3,700 for smaller acts. A seat number means something completely different depending on which of those the event is using.
No. The Utah Grizzlies, who had played in the valley for 31 seasons and in this building since it opened in 1997, played their final game on 12 April 2026 and moved to Trenton, New Jersey, to become the Ironhawks. What remains is the Salt Lake City Stars of the NBA G League, here since 2022, the Utah Great 8's of the International Arena League from 2026, and a year round concert and family show calendar.
Yes, twice over in 2002. It was one of the ice hockey venues for the Salt Lake Winter Olympics, working through 31 sessions across six days, and it hosted the sledge hockey tournament at the Paralympics that followed. The building was four and a half years old at the time, having opened in September 1997, which makes it one of the youngest buildings on the 2002 venue list and one of the reasons the west side of the valley has an Olympic record at all.
Figure skating and short track speed skating. In a reversal from 2002, when the arena staged ice hockey, hockey moves downtown to the Delta Center for 2034 and the Maverik Center takes the skating events instead. The switch was set in motion in October 2024, when the owner of Salt Lake City's NHL team said Olympic hockey would go to his downtown arena. A venue plan can still change before a Games, but this is the assignment the organizers are working to.
Work is planned and the price is not settled. A 2023 funding request listed 20 million dollars for seats, locker rooms, restrooms, infrastructure, restaurant and concession areas, luxury suites and video boards, while the organizing committee's own budget sets aside a much smaller sum across every venue in the plan. Mayor Karen Lang has said the priority is security, seismic and modernization work rather than a rebuild, with the aim of having the building ready by 2030.
Yes, and it is one of the easiest arena rail trips in the state. Decker Lake station on the Green Line sits immediately beside the building, at about 3070 South 2200 West, and the Green Line runs from Salt Lake City International Airport through downtown to West Valley Central. Since parking at the arena is already free, rail is not a saving; it is a way of avoiding the twenty minutes it takes a full parking lot to empty after a sell-out.
The one with the longest lead time is the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, running from 5 to 10 January 2027, which brings the championships back to Utah for the first time since 1999. Beyond that the building runs a rolling concert and family show calendar, hosts NBA G League basketball through the winter and arena football in the summer, and sits on the 2034 Winter Olympic venue plan for figure skating and short track. Confirm any specific date with the venue.
An arena the city owns is a different neighbor from one a promoter owns
A municipal building with an Olympic record, free parking, a rail platform at the door and a second Games on its calendar shapes the blocks around it in a way a private venue does not, and the streets near Decker Lake Drive price both the access and the event nights into the same address. Tell me what you are weighing and I will put you with a Salt Lake County partner agent who works this side of the valley, and stay on the file for the homework and the financing side.
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