Could the 2034 Winter Games help transform Kearns into a tourist destination?

That’s Kearns Mayor Kelly Bush’s goal for the westside bedroom community, home to the Utah Olympic Oval , the long track speedskating venue built ahead of the 2002 Winter Games and set to be used again in 2034.

“That’s what we’re really excited about, making this a place that when they leave after the Olympics, they want to keep coming back here,” Bush told reporters after meeting Friday with leaders of the Organizing Committee for the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

The closed-door meeting, held in an event center located next to the oval, was the latest stop on the organizing committee’s “listening tour” of venue communities that kicked off in May, stopping first in Ogden and then, in J

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