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Springville residents Patrice Bolen, left, and Gina Woolf look at an architectural rendering of new construction planned at the McWane Ductile Amphitheater at the Arts Park in Springville after a groundbreaking ceremony for the project on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025.

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Springville Mayor Matt Packard and representatives of McWane Ductile officially broke ground on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, for improvements to the McWane Ductile Amphitheater at the Arts Park in Springville.

Courtesy Christi Babbitt

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Spring Acres Arts Park has been a cultural hub in Springville for more than three decades, holding community events and concerts — and even hosting a handful of big names, including the Oak Ridge Boys.

The venue will receive major enhancements to keep it a community staple going forward, thanks to a large investment from locally based pipe supplier McWane Ductile.

Springville broke ground Monday on renovations to the venue, which will be renamed the McWane Ductile Amphitheater at the Arts Park. The project is backed by $1 million from McWane Ductile, $750,000 from Utah County Tourism Tax Advisory Board funds and $600,000 from the Springville Recreation, Arts and Parks tax.

Springville Mayor Matt Packard said McWane approached the city with funds it wanted to contribute to the community, and Springville gave the company three or four options to choose from.

“They were the ones that picked this for themselves to be able to improve this and to make this more vibrant, to make it easier from a stage standpoint and also from a spectator standpoint,” Packard said. “They don’t have to do this. They do this on their own. They called us up rather than us making a phone call to them. So it’s just an incredible organization.”

With a targeted completion date of May 2026, renovations involve construction of a steel canopy structure, which will improve acoustics and provide weather protection.

The stage and building will be remodeled to upgrade the greenroom and storage, and a state-of-the-art sound system will be installed. Seating will be terraced to increase audience capacity and improve sightlines.

“There will be a solid, permanent roof, rather than the sails that have been there,” City Councilmember Mike Snelson said. “And there will be easier seating, because it’ll be terraced. People can set their chairs up and things like that. The bleachers will most likely stay.”

Packard said that after the city got the bids for the project, staff began looking for funds beyond McWane Ductile to complete it.

There to answer the call was the county TTAB.

“This hits a lot of our key pillars. We like cultural activities, we like investing in our people, and there were a lot of things we liked about the project,” TTAB representative Kurt Christensen said.

The rest of the funding came from the Springville PAR Board. Kurt Boucher, chair of the board, said helping with improvements to the venue was exactly how they were looking to spend the funds.

By the time Springville Art City Days and Springville World Folkfest come around next year, the city expects to show off a shiny new venue.

“It’s something that’s really going to stand out and help the people of Springville know that their tax dollars have been going toward, up to this point, a lot of smaller projects — still impactful — and here’s an opportunity to have one single, large, impactful structure,” Boucher said.