"With this facility … and the opportunity we're going to have to continue to develop young talent, the sky is the limit," said RSL academy technical director Martin Vasquez, who along with his staff and current players will move from RSL's youth academy in Casa Grande, Ariz., to Herriman when the facility opens next August.
RSL officials estimate the facility will be home to about 50 full-time staffers as well as a 250-student charter school with a science, technology, engineering and math emphasis. About 40 of those students will be members of the youth academy.
Herriman city officials said they had been courting Hansen and Real Salt Lake for years.