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How Sundance turned an old Park City sporting-goods store into a modern 500-seat theater

“It’s the perfect location, in the heart of Park City,” said Wallace, managing director of the Sundance Institute. “I had seen that spot free up for quite a while, and I said, ‘I think it’s time to put a stake in the ground with a new theater.’”

That spot is a 25,000-square-foot space in a shopping area on Park City’s Park Avenue, a former Sports Authority store between the Fresh Market supermarket and the Holiday Village multiplex.

Over the past four months, construction crews have been transforming the space into the newest venue for the Sundance Film Festival: The Ray.