Clearfield Station, and the difference between built and announced.

A transit oriented development on 56 plus acres of Utah Transit Authority land around the commuter rail platform at 1200 South State Street, built in partnership between the city and the transit agency. The city publishes a programme of approximately 67,500 square feet of commercial space, approximately 550,000 square feet of office, 1,000 residential units as townhomes and apartments, and an approximately 2.25 acre park, supported by about $28 million of infrastructure including nearly two miles of new roads with bike lanes. It is the city's answer to never having had a commercial centre of its own.

As of 16 August 2026, the infrastructure, the park and a first residential phase. The park, Tower Park, is about 2.25 acres with an airport themed play structure, four pavilions and a public restroom, and was reported open in October 2024. The first vertical phase is two mixed use buildings holding 213 apartments from one to three bedrooms, which was leasing at 1342 South 950 East when this page was checked. The 1,000 unit total, the 550,000 square feet of office, the 67,500 square feet of commercial and the announced climbing gym are published programme rather than construction.

The city's own development page states that the Groundbreaking Ceremony was on April 25th and meaning the project is underway, and it prints no year anywhere on that page. There is no anchor inside the text from which to derive one, so no year is printed here either. What can be said with a date attached is that the public park was reported open in October 2024 and that a Utah Transit Authority trustee, speaking that same month, anticipated the project coming to life over the next three to five years depending on the market.

Because it does not have one to restore. The air field on the eastern boundary began construction in 1940 and the naval supply depot on the western side was commissioned in 1943, and the residential grid between them filled in as housing rather than growing outward from a commercial core. That means no historic main street, no block of old shopfronts and very little pre war building stock of any kind. A city in that position that wants a centre has to construct one, and the largest well located piece of land in the middle of Clearfield belongs to the transit agency.

The finished public park inside the Clearfield Station project area, of approximately 2.25 acres, with an airport themed play structure as its centrepiece, four pavilions and a public restroom. It was reported open by the Standard-Examiner in October 2024. It is the one completed public element of the development and it sits directly beside the commuter rail platform, which makes it the easiest place in the county to test whether the train works for a particular household. The planting is young and there is very little shade, so it is a morning or evening park in high summer.

A second mixed use development, on the west side of Mabey Pond. The city publishes a northern section of 296 residential units, 26,500 square feet of commercial space and 16,500 square feet of community space, the last described as including a walking path, a beach, a kayak launch, a plaza and event area, an art plaza and open space, with northern section construction running from autumn 2023 through 2026. The southern section is in design and described as five or more years out. Mabey Pond itself is carried by the county's lakeside parks page rather than here.

On the two published programmes together, roughly 1,300 residential units: 1,000 at Clearfield Station as townhomes and apartments, and 296 in the northern section of Lakeside Square. In a city that counted 31,909 people at the 2020 census, that is a noticeable fraction of the housing stock, most of it attached and most of it on ground that has never carried housing. How much of it gets built and when is exactly the thing nobody can answer from outside the process.

There is a submission, and it could not be read. Clearfield's station area planning document is published by the Wasatch Front Regional Council as a scanned file with no readable text layer, which means the adopted ordinance number, the plan boundary and the statutory framework behind it are all unavailable from that source. No claim about any of the three appears on this page as a result. If a plan boundary matters to a decision, ask the city directly rather than working from any secondary description of it.

It was announced as the anchor commercial tenant at roughly 37,500 square feet and had not been confirmed open as of August 2026. Treat it as an intention rather than as a facility until the operator or the city says otherwise. The same applies to the wider commercial and office programme: beyond the ground floor retail in the first residential phase, none of the published 67,500 square feet of commercial or 550,000 square feet of office is standing. Check the city's development projects page for the current position before planning anything around it.