A 2009 nursing home lot in Orem

A nursing home was built, then sold on twice

You're standing on Columbia Lane in Orem, on a flat lot just south of Provo, where a single-story health care building now stands. The ground was farmland and open subdivision land before 2009. West Desert Investments LLC built on it and platted it as Lot 1 of a small development named for the business it would hold: Advanced Health Care of Orem.

The lot changed hands twice after that. In 2014, West Desert Investments LLC sold it to a company called Orem Rp Snf LLC. Three years later, another company, Tethys LLC, passed its own interest in the property to the same buyer. Behind those transactions sits an ordinary story: a nursing home built once, in one year, and quietly sold on twice since.

Settlers fought Ute bands defending Utah Valley

The ground under Columbia Lane sat inside Utah Valley long before any plat was filed. Settlers who arrived from 1850 fought here against Ute bands defending their homeland. One of them, Joshua Davis, came to the territory that year and later fought at the Battle at Fort Utah, along the Provo River a few miles from this lot. Joshua Davis is remembered today by a house named for him, elsewhere in the valley. The clashes of those years, not the orchards that came after, were the first chapter of this ground.

An orchard farm slowly became a street grid

Half a mile from here, Henry and Lisa Soulier bought a farm in 1911 and built a brick home near what is now half a mile away. They grew peaches, apricots and grapes, and kept cows, on land that had no street name yet and no town called Orem around it. Decades later, in the 1970s, the family's old fruit-packing shed was moved onto 2000 South, Orem, where it still stands. That slow shift, from orchard to street grid, is the same shift that turned this lot in Grandview North, Orem, into buildable ground by the time anyone platted it.

Charlie Kirk was murdered in 2025 at Timpanogos Regional Hospital, in the Orem area. The killing happened away from Columbia Lane, at the hospital itself.

The county recorded this lot's plat a year late

Here on the lot itself, the paperwork came after the building did. The county recorded the plat for this lot in 2010, a year after construction finished, formalizing it as Lot 1, Plat A of the Advanced Health Care of Orem subdivision. The parcel covers 1.575 acres, and the building on it runs just over 19,000 square feet. It had been built as a single-purpose property from the start: a skilled nursing facility, built once and platted after the fact.

The county's own paper trail stayed quiet for years after that. Three years later, in 2017, a separate company called Tethys LLC transferred its own interest in the same property to that same buyer, Orem Rp Snf LLC. The assessor's record shows no further sales since.

A missing man was found safe nearby

In August 2026, a man named Brent Benson was reported missing near Main Street and 2000 South, not far from this block. Brent Benson was found safe two days later.

That same year, Utah County was declared a federal disaster area twice: once for the Iron Fire and once, in 2023, for regional flooding. A fire in 2020, called the Ether Hollow Fire, had already brought a similar declaration. None of the three burned or flooded this exact lot, but all three are part of the county's recent record, and Grandview North, Orem sits inside that same county.