A City on the Lake

Utah Valley University began buying land in Vineyard in 2011 and in 2014 bought 125 acres of the old Geneva site for a West Campus. New neighborhoods rose where farms had stood.

From 2014 to 2015 Vineyard grew 417 percent, faster than any city in America. On March 13, 2015, the Megaplex at Geneva opened on the old mill site with 13 screens and the first IMAX screen in Utah County. In 2016 Vineyard passed 1,000 residents and became a city.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, 139 people became 12,543. No city in Utah grew faster.

On August 12, 2022, the Vineyard FrontRunner station opened at 130 E. Market Street, the 15th station on the commuter line that runs from Provo to Salt Lake City and Ogden.

The June sucker, the fish found only in Utah Lake, had fallen so low that in 2002 only 139 adults were observed spawning in the Provo River. A long recovery effort followed. On January 4, 2021, the fish was moved from endangered to threatened.

In March 2020 work began on the Provo River Delta, a 260 acre project that gave the Provo River a natural mouth again where it meets Utah Lake. The river was turned into its new channels in 2023, and the delta opened to the public in October 2024 with new trails. In 2024, 3,785 tagged June suckers were detected spawning there.

About 20,000 people now call Vineyard home. Families walk and bike the lakeshore trail, trains stop downtown, and new neighborhoods look out over the same water the Timpanogos Utes fished, the friars described and the pioneers farmed beside.

From grapevines to steel to a city on the lake. The story is still being written.