University Place on its way to completing promises as retail hub of Orem
October 19, 2021
Daily Herald: In 1973, the Woodbury Corp. took a chance with a new flagship project called University Mall. At the time, other than a few homes and open fields, there wasn’t much in the 133 acres.
A new connector road had gone in from Provo to Orem and west to Interstate 15. Residents fondly called the new road “the diagonal.”