Brickyard Plaza contains a community-level commercial mall with 312,000 square feet of retail space, an anchor department store, retail shops, and office space. Over the years, the center experienced on-going changes in tenants and continued reinvestment. The center remains a vibrant, auto-oriented retail center for the Sugar House Community, the City and outlying residential communities.

In the early days Brickyard Plaza was a brick manufacturing site. “The Brickyard” produced bricks used in construction of early homes, businesses and church meetinghouses. Bricks from their operations were used to build the first school in Sugar House. Through the years it became the largest brick manufacturing company in the west.

Operations at the site ended in November 1972 when the plant was shut down and dismantled with the exception of the Smith Kiln Chimney. This landmark Interstate Brick smokestack was built in 1902 and can be found adjacent to Brickyard Road.

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