University Place, and the street they cut through it

The old University Mall, being rebuilt rather than abandoned. The mall opened in March 1973 under Woodbury Corporation at the corner of University Parkway and State Street, and it is now a mixed use district of roughly 120 acres under a revitalization reported at around 500 million dollars, carrying on the order of 1.2 million square feet of retail with more than 150 stores, plus apartments, offices, a cinema and a hotel. Anchor department stores and a large home furnishings retailer hold down the retail, and a new public street called Park Avenue runs through the middle of the campus.

The free half of the district. It is a green space of about two acres in the middle of the campus, roughly the size of two football fields, with an outdoor stage, a choreographed show fountain, an indoor and outdoor children's play area and a lot of open grass. It costs nothing to use, it keeps the district's hours of ten until nine Monday to Saturday and noon until six on Sunday, and it is programmed with events all year rather than only in summer. It is privately owned ground rather than a city park.

The summer program is. Through the warm months The Orchard runs a free calendar of outdoor events, from cultural festivals and craft fairs to outdoor concerts, plus a strand of the city's own June festival, Orchard's Jam. The lineup is published by University Place and changes from year to year, so check the current calendar before you travel for a specific event.

Ten in the morning until nine at night Monday to Saturday, and noon until six on Sunday, though hours can shift with the season and around holidays, so confirm before an evening visit. The Orchard, the two acre green in the middle of the campus, keeps the same pattern, which is worth knowing if you were planning to sit out on a summer evening after nine. The address is 575 East University Parkway, on the corner of University Parkway and State Street, and the cinema on site runs its own later schedule.

A new public street cut straight through the middle of the campus, connecting State Street to 800 East. Its south side provides curbside access to The Orchard and its north side serves the office park. The point of it is circulation: a shopping center with a road through it behaves like a piece of town rather than a building surrounded by a parking lot, and it gives the district an internal route between two major streets without going through the University Parkway junction.

No, and that is the single most important thing to hold in mind. It is a long multi phase project. The retail core is trading, The Orchard is built and programmed, Park Avenue is cut, apartments are occupied and the 545 University Place office building is complete and occupied. The wider office park is in progress and other pieces are still drawings. If a decision of yours depends on a specific building, tenant or opening date, confirm it in writing with the leasing office rather than acting on a plan drawing.

Yes, and it is the one address in Orem where that is straightforwardly true. The UVX bus rapid transit line stops here and runs west to the Orem Central FrontRunner station and south into Provo, in dedicated lanes for much of the route, at roughly ten to fifteen minute frequencies through the day. One correction on the fare: UVX ran fare free until August 2024 and has charged a regular fare of $2.50 with a $5 day pass since 18 August 2024. University students, faculty and staff still ride free on institutional passes.

Yes, and it is where a large share of Orem's newest homes are. The district includes apartments as part of the mixed use plan, and because the city is essentially full, with very little open land left, most of Orem's new attached homes arrive by building on already used ground like this rather than as new subdivisions on open fields. For a buyer, that means the newest homes in the city cluster on and around this corridor, and older detached houses make up almost everything else.

Woodbury Corporation, which opened University Mall on the site in March 1973 and has run the redevelopment since. It is private ground rather than city ground, which has practical consequences: the district publishes its own hours, its own rules for The Orchard and its own security arrangements, and it closes when the district closes. The City of Orem's own public spaces, including City Center Park and the civic block, operate to different rules and different hours.