After 26 Years, Jordanelle Community Is Finally Getting Built!

Twenty-six years. That's how long the Jordanelle area has been waiting for the community infrastructure that was always supposed to come with the rooftops. It's finally happening: the JSPA Planning Committee just approved three of the four commercial buildings at Keetley Square — a four-acre development just south of the fire station, directly across from Deer Valley East Village.

What's coming

Restaurants, office space, and shopping are officially in the works, with a grocery store as the possible next domino — and if you live anywhere around the reservoir, you already know why the grocery store is the headline. Today, every carton of milk between Hideout and the Mayflower means a drive over the hill into Park City. Thousands of homes have been built out here over two-plus decades with essentially zero daily-life services to support them. Keetley Square is the first real correction of that imbalance.

Why now, after 26 years

Simple: East Village changed the math. Commercial development follows density, and with Deer Valley's new base village rising across the road — hotels open, lifts spinning, thousands of residences in the pipeline — the customer base finally exists year-round. Add the trail connections and future transit options threaded through the plans, and the Jordanelle side of the hill is assembling the pieces of an actual town rather than a collection of subdivisions.

The real estate read

I say some version of this in every Jordanelle piece I make, because it keeps being true: infrastructure follows rooftops, and value follows infrastructure. Every development around the reservoir — Hideout's neighborhoods, Black Rock, SkyRidge, Tuhaye across the water — becomes more livable the day a restaurant and a grocery store open within ten minutes. More livable means more rentable, more usable in shoulder seasons, and ultimately more valuable. The buyers who got into this corridor early bet on exactly this sequence, and approvals like Keetley Square are the bet paying off.

There's still one commercial building working through the process, and out here timelines always deserve skepticism — but three of four approved is real momentum. I track every JSPA agenda so my clients hear about these shifts before they're priced in. If the Jordanelle corridor is on your radar, this is another reason to move it up the list.

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