GPS: 40.768333, -111.901111
Major League Teams often sell the naming rights of their arenas to huge corporations. The result of this practice is one often finds large architectural structures in major cities which designed as advertisements. I dislike taking pictures of advertisements, but I guess it is important to document these buildings as they show how commercialism seeps into every aspect of modern life.
When I moved to Salt Lake, the city had a basketball arena called: "The Salt Palace." I loved that name. But, the building was inadequate for the NBA. Larry H Miller bought the New Orleans Jazz in 1979. Delta Airlines bought the naming rights of the new stadium which became "The Delta Center."
The building changed its name to "The Salt Lake Ice Center" for the 2002 Olympics as the Olympics does not allow branded names. It reverted to the Delta Center after the games.
In 2006, The Jazz sold the naming rights to "EnergySolutions" which processes low level nuclear waste.
The name of the stadium changed again in 2015 to Vivint SmartHome Arena. This company sells home automation. A spinoff of the company sells solar panels; So they couldn't just use Vivint.
The second picture is of a new Courtyard Marriott Hotel across the street from the arena.
My complaint against the brand name of buildings only applies to superfluous names. One needs to put the trademark of a hotel on the hotel so that people know who owns the hotel and which reservation system to use.
