BYU land near the Missionary Training Center
A quiet lot on 900 East in Provo, roughly 850 feet from the Provo Missionary Training Center, has passed between institutions entirely on paper. Brigham Young University platted it in 2015, Utah County recorded it as its own parcel in 2016, and ownership moved to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2021 and again in 2023. No building has ever been recorded on it.
A BYU parcel passed quietly to the church twice
You're on a quiet stretch of 900 East, just north of Brigham Young University. The Provo Missionary Training Center sits about 850 feet away, where new missionaries report before heading out into the world. It has simply passed, on paper, between the university and the church that runs it. Brigham Young University platted it in 2015, and Utah County logged it as its own parcel in 2016. The university transferred it to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2021, then again in 2023.
Two deeds on one day moved the same lot
The paper trail is short but it repeats itself. Brigham Young University deeded the lot to itself in March 2021, the same week it also deeded it to the church. Both transfers are recorded on the same day, March 4, 2021, entries 43645 and 43682. It reads like a university tidying its own books before handing a piece of campus edge over to its parent church. The second deed, in January 2023, confirmed the church as owner.
No house has ever gone up on this ground, at least not one the county has logged. The legal description is a long chain of survey bearings, feet and inches, closing a rough polygon of just over four and a half acres. That is the whole shape of the lot: a plat line, a parcel number, and two owners, both tied to the same institution.
Today the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints holds title, same as the Missionary Training Center a short walk south. The lot itself stays empty on paper, open ground folded quietly into the church's holdings at the edge of campus.
The lot remains undeveloped in county records, bordered by the missionary training grounds it adjoins.
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