Independence, and the build going up over the boundary.

A planned community of about 296 acres in the north eastern corner of Bluffdale, immediately off the 14600 South exit of I-15. The published plan is roughly 1,900 homes across detached houses, townhouses and flats, laid out at once rather than accumulated street by street, with a connected footway network, a paved bicycle path along the northern and western edges, and streets, parks and monuments named for American ideals.

At 15245 South Noell Nelson Drive, on the city's own published facility list. It is landscaped with pavilions through it and several separate play areas, including a splash pad with coloured spouts and sprayers and a playground built around a large climbing rope structure with a two storey slide. The splash pad runs on the city season, Memorial Day to Labor Day, from 10am to 8pm. Bookings go through Bluffdale City Hall on 801-254-2200.

Draper. The 600 acre redevelopment of the former Utah State Prison ground sits north east of the Bluffdale city line, so Bluffdale gets the construction traffic, the pressure on the same I-15 interchanges and eventually the proximity to a large employment centre, without any say over the plan or any of it on its tax roll. Draper's companion page covers the project itself in detail.

As of 7 August 2026, site infrastructure and the ground work of the first phase are delivered, and the 104 acre first district went vertical on 29 June 2026 with first openings stated for 2028. That district includes a 5,000 seat arena carrying the Mountain America Event Center name and the Chroma development. The wider 600 acre plan across later districts is announced rather than built. Those three states are different things and worth keeping separate.

There are two in Draper and they share only a naming rights sponsor. One is the hall at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium, which opened in February 2026. The other is the 5,000 seat arena under construction in the first district at The Point, which is a separate site with a separate address. An event listing that names only the sponsor does not tell you which building you are going to, so check the street address on the ticket.

That depends entirely on separating what is delivered from what is announced, and on driving the I-15 interchange at the hour you would actually use it rather than on a quiet Saturday. The Point sits at the pinch where the valley narrows at the Point of the Mountain, and a build of that size does not make that stretch easier during the years it is under construction. A projected job count for a district that has just gone vertical is a plan rather than a payroll.

Ground laid out as a single planned community carries recorded instruments that an older large lot street in the same city does not, and they run with the land rather than with the seller. They are public records and they are obtainable in advance. Ask for the complete recorded set at the start of the due diligence period rather than a summary, read them rather than skim them, and get anything you cannot answer from the documents answered in writing before the period closes.

Off the 14600 South exit of I-15, which is the exit the development is named from. Note that 14600 South itself has been closed between Spring View Parkway and 1010 West since 17 November 2025 while a rail underpass is replaced, so the east to west crossing of the city is not currently available at that street. Check the published detours before setting a route, because the closure changes the approach from the western half of the city entirely.

The bicycle path along the northern and western edges of the development, out to wherever it delivers you, and then back through the middle. That hour shows you how far the shops, schools and arterials genuinely are on foot, where the path network connects and where it stops, how much of the landscape is maintained, and what the road noise from I-15 is like at the eastern edge on an ordinary weekday. None of that is visible on a plan drawing or in a listing.