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 revitalisation 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. Dillard's and RC Willey anchor 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 pitches, 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 programme is. The 2026 calendar included an Orem Asian Festival run in partnership with the Utah Chinese Association, with live performances, paper cutting crafts, cultural displays and food, and a free Utah Valley Symphony concert on 15 August at seven in the evening marking the United States' 250th anniversary, alongside a display of every official American flag. Orchard's Jam brings a strand of the city's own June festival here as well. The calendar is published by University Place and it changes week to week, so check it before travelling.

Ten in the morning until nine at night Monday to Saturday, and noon until six on Sunday. 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 kerbside access to The Orchard and its north side serves the office park. The point of it is circulation: a shopping centre with a road through it behaves like a piece of town rather than a building surrounded by a car park, 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 carries apartments as part of the mixed use plan, and because the city is essentially built out with very little remaining undeveloped land, most new attached supply in Orem arrives through infill of this kind rather than through new subdivisions on open ground. What that means for a buyer is that the newest product in the city clusters on and around this corridor, and older detached housing makes 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.