South Salt Lake • Cinco de Mayo being a party day anyway, Chris Mautz and Darin Piccoli figured it’d also be the perfect occasion to celebrate opening the Salt Lake area’s newest concert venue, The Commonwealth Room (195 W. Commonwealth Ave.), with a free show. Meanwhile, in the two weeks until then, the harried co-owners acknowledge there’s plenty yet to do.
“The sound system and the lighting will be installed next week. The bathrooms and bar will be completed this week into next,” Mautz said. “And then it’s just spit-shining it, baby!
“Oh, and we should probably sweep the floor,” he added with a laugh, nodding at the piles of sawdust and construction debris strewn about.