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LINDON, Utah — In a city named for a tree with heart-shaped leaves, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will soon be able to “turn their hearts” as spoken of in Malachi 4:6 as they do the work of the Lord in a new temple.

Rain threatened, but the skies held while Church and civic leaders broke ground at the site of the Lindon Utah Temple at 800 E. Center St. on Saturday, April 23.

Elder Kevin W. Pearson, a General Authority Seventy and president of the Church’s Utah Area, presided at the event and spoke to those gathered in a nearby chapel before dedicating the site of the future edifice.

“With the dedication of the temple site … may each of us rededicate our own lives and recommit ourselves to placing the Lord Jesus Christ and our sacred covenants at the very center of our lives,” said Elder Pearson.

President Russell M. Nelson announced a temple for Lindon, Utah, in October 2020 general conference — one of six temple locations identified at that time.

The Lindon temple is one of 28 for the state of Utah that are dedicated, under construction or announced. Temples dot the area around Lindon, with the Mount Timpanogos, Provo, Provo City Center and Payson temples in operation, and the Orem and Saratoga Springs temples under construction.

Elder Pearson spoke of the statement from previous Church President Joseph F. Smith that temples would “dot the earth.”

“Why do we need to dot the earth with temples? The answer seems to be clear: The Lord has been hastening His work for some time now,” he said. “It has always been the greatest work on the earth.”

As this area of Utah County became settled after the 1850s, homes and farms were strung along the road connecting Pleasant Grove and Orem, earning the nickname “String Town.” Some of the descendants of the first settlers were at the groundbreaking.

Lindon Utah Central Stake Patriarch Edward L. Platt explained that a Latter-day Saint from England brought linden seeds and planted a linden tree along State Street. That tree became a landmark, and when the town was incorporated in 1901, a typo changed linden to Lindon.

Plans for the new temple show a three-story temple of approximately 81,000 square feet, with two spires. The linden tree with heart-shaped leaves will become a motif in the new temple.

Elder Pearson spoke about how the temple is more than a beautiful building, it’s a place where sacred covenants are made for people on both sides of the veil.

“As we break ground today for the Lindon Utah Temple, we need a groundbreaking effort to prepare for the dedication of this temple by searching out and preparing our family names to submit to and nourish this new temple as it’s constructed,” said Elder Pearson.

After the program inside the chapel, the guests walked up the hill to the site of the future temple and turned the soil to officially break ground. Kelly Washburn, a 17-year-old high school senior and a young woman in the Lindon Utah Stake, helped turn a shovel of dirt.

She said having a temple so close will help the youth of the area — a junior high is within walking distance. “It’s so amazing that it will be even more accessible to us. We are learning every single day how to become better and how to be more like Jesus Christ,” said Washburn.

“All of us are looking forward to coming together and working together in the Lord’s work,” she said, adding how when she makes an appointment in the Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple right now, she feels as if she is making a doctor’s appointment, and the Lord is the Master Physician.

Eduardo Silva, an elders quorum president in the Lindon Utah Central Stake, grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and spoke about how he and other Church members saved and sacrificed to make the 14-hour trip to the São Paulo Brazil Temple.

When he moved with his family to Utah 21 years ago, he was amazed to have more temples nearby. Now he is thrilled to have a temple even closer to his home.

“We expect to be here as often as we can,” he said, and urged others to make the temple a part of their lives and never take it for granted: “I know temples are sacred.”

Although it was cold and windy, and a light drizzle threatened to fall, Elder Pearson noted the enthusiasm and even deep emotions from people who had come to watch the groundbreaking, including those who stopped alongside a nearby trail. He highlighted the faithfulness of the people in the Lindon, Orem and Pleasant Grove stakes who live in the temple district.

“We are living in the time when temples would dot the earth,” said Elder Pearson. “It’s evidence of both the faith of the people and the Lord’s love for us, and the desire that all of His children would have the blessings of the new and everlasting covenant. To get those blessings, you have to have a temple.”

The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced groundbreaking dates for the Lindon Utah and Farmington New Mexico temples.

A General Authority Seventy will preside at each invitation-only event — Elder Kevin W. Pearson at the Saturday, April 23, groundbreaking for the Lindon Utah Temple, and Elder Anthony D. Perkins at the Saturday, April 30, groundbreaking for the Farmington New Mexico Temple.

Lindon Utah Temple

President Russell M. Nelson announced a temple for Lindon, Utah, in the October 2020 general conference — one of six temple locations identified at that time. The Lindon temple is one of 28 for the state of Utah that are dedicated, under construction or announced.

The site for Lindon temple was released less than three months later, on Dec. 12, 2020, and the exterior rendering six months later in June 2021.

The rendering shows plans for a three-story temple of approximately 81,000 square feet, located at the site near 800 East and Center Street in Lindon.

Utah currently has 17 dedicated temples, with 14 operating, and three — the Salt Lake, Manti Utah and St. George Utah temples — closed for major renovations. The Lindon temple will join seven temples in the state under construction — in Layton, Orem, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, St. George (the Red Cliffs temple) and Taylorsville, Tooele (the Deseret Peak temple). The three announced are the Smithfield, Heber Valley and Ephraim temples.

More than 2.1 million Latter-day Saints comprising 600-plus stakes reside in Utah, with 10 missions based in the state.

Farmington New Mexico Temple

During the April 2021 general conference held less than 10 months ago, President Russell M. Nelson announced Farmington, New Mexico, as one of 20 sites for new temples.

The Church identified the Farmington temple’s site location on June 23, 2021, and released an exterior rendering of the temple on Oct. 19, 2021.

Projected to be a single-story temple of approximately 25,000 square feet, the Farmington New Mexico Temple will be built on a 6.62-acre site at the intersection of College Boulevard and Windsor Drive. A meetinghouse also is planned to be built on the site.

The temple will be the state’s second, joining the Albuquerque New Mexico Temple, which was dedicated in March 2000. Nearly 70,000 Latter-day Saints reside in New Mexico, spread across some 140 congregations.

| Updated: Feb. 11, 2018, 11:14 a.m.

Lindon • Utah County’s high-tech revolution is spreading down Interstate 15.

In this small town between Orem and Pleasant Grove, real estate firm Newmark Grubb Acres is marketing a $200 million “Mountain Tech” commercial and industrial development.

Two multi-story buildings already have popped up on the west side of I-15 at the 600 North/Pleasant Grove boulevard exit.

“We feel we’re the next step in the expansion of Silicon Slopes,” said Newmark senior vice president Ben Richardson, using the nickname for the proliferation of technology companies in recent years in Lehi, nine miles to the north.

“We’re in the chase for companies of the Amazon-type culture,” he added.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Newmark Grubb ACRES commercial estate is marketing a $200 million development west of the Pleasant Grove Boulevard freeway interchange. The mixed-use development in Lindon is expected to eventually include office and industrial space spread over 10 buildings, including a food court off Pleasant Grove Boulevard at 600 North.

Richardson is marketing three business parks that are expected to eventually include 10 buildings with 650,000 square feet of Class A office and industrial space.

One 52,000-square-foot building is already in place, and its main tenant is Open Edge, a subsidiary of Global Payments that develops software to help clients customize and secure their payment systems.

A building just to the south will become home to Jive Communications, which provides over-the-cloud telecommunications services and hardware to companies and institutions.

“Utah is our home and Utah County is our sweet spot, our bread basket,” said Matthew Peterson, Jive’s chief marketing officer. He said 350 to 400 employees will occupy three of the building’s four stories when the consolidation of its operations is complete. The building is expected to be finished later this year.

“We had a lot of choices. … There’s awesome undeveloped property between Lehi and Spanish Fork,” Peterson said. But the Lindon property had room to grow and was just a couple of freeway stops away from the company’s primary source of employees, Utah Valley University in Orem, he said.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Newmark Grubb ACRES commercial estate is marketing a $200 million development west of the Pleasant Grove Boulevard freeway interchange. The mixed-use development in Lindon is expected to eventually include office and industrial space spread over 10 buildings, including a food court off Pleasant Grove Boulevard at 600 North.

Across a newly paved street from those two buildings, developer Mark Weldon is wrapping up approval from Lindon City for an office and warehouse complex with additional room for two restaurants. A key warehouse feature, said Newmark vice president Steve Anderson, will be its 32 feet of clearance — four feet more than the current standard height.

“We’re anticipating more companies will be requesting this kind of clearance in the future,” he said. “It allows for another complete level of pallets, increasing the storage by 25 percent. That lets companies plan for future growth.”

The buildings also are being equipped with extra electrical capacity. “We overpowered them to make sure that, if what a company does is power based, we can provide anything that tenant requires,” Richardson said.

Developer Weldon has done most of his work in Tampa, Fla., where his company, WICP Commercial Properties is based. According to its website, WICP owns and manages 750,000 square feet of warehouse space and 300,000 square feet of office space.

After buying a home in Park City, Weldon started looking around at Wasatch Front development patterns and available land. In Lindon, Richardson said, “he found a piece of bank-owned land at a very good price” and snapped it up.

Lindon City officials are encouraged by Weldon’s plan, seeing it as a catalyst for more development along the road known as 600 North west of I-15 and Pleasant Grove Boulevard to the east. Real-estate signs on multiple vacant parcels along both sides of that road indicate that the conversion of grazing fields into business complexes will be accomplished soon.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Newmark Grubb ACRES commercial estate is marketing a $200 million development west of the Pleasant Grove Boulevard freeway interchange. The mixed-use development in Lindon is expected to eventually include office and industrial space spread over 10 buildings, including a food court off Pleasant Grove Boulevard at 600 North.

“We’re excited to see some action around the [freeway] interchange,” said Lindon City Planner Hugh Van Wagenen. “Lindon and Pleasant Grove partnered to fund that interchange and both cities now are starting to see the fruits of those labors.”

The focus on high-tech companies is well placed, said Jive’s Peterson, who anticipates “a natural expansion of these types of buildings up along I-15. We pay taxes and have high-paying jobs. We expect the skyline to change around here.”

| Updated: 12:29 p.m.

Lindon Mayor Jeff Acerson easily steered through a Utah Senate confirmation hearing Friday toward becoming a new member of the Utah Transit Authority Board — vowing openness and a willingness to listen at the agency that was scarred by scandal in recent years.

He won unanimous committee endorsement, and the full Senate is expected to vote later this month on his nomination by Gov. Gary Herbert to represent Utah and Tooele counties on the three-person, full-time commission that oversees UTA. He would replace Kent Millington, whose board term expired Nov. 1.

After scandals over high executive pay, extensive international travel, questionably closed meetings and sweetheart deals for developers, the Legislature two years ago disbanded the old 16-member, part-time board that had overseen UTA and replaced it with a full-time, three-member commission to provide closer watch and control.

Acerson was a member of that former, now-disbanded UTA Board, and more recently has served on a new part-time UTA Advisory Council of local mayors and other political leaders.

“I always want to have our meetings open,” he told senators Friday. “I want to make sure everyone has a voice and not just a voice, but that they have the opportunity to share their opinion or insight or ask their question in a way that they’re not threatened.”

He vowed that his door will always be open to the public or UTA workers with concerns. Acerson said he learned as a mayor that issues can become “emotionally charged because [people] don’t feel that they’re being listened to.”

He added, “I’m not coming in with a preconceived idea that I’ve got the solutions. I try to talk to people. I try to include people, and I try to be supportive of the organization. … I’m open to recommendations, suggestions, conversation. And I think I think we make better decisions the more inclusive we are.”

The only member of the public speaking on Acerson’s nomination was Andrew Gruber, executive director of the transportation-planning Wasatch Front Regional Council.

He praised Acerson for being “very involved in transit issues and a collaborative worker with the other communities,” and said he “understands the value of transit to the future of the region.”

The other current members of the full-time UTA Board are Chairman Carlton Christensen, who represents Salt Lake County, and Beth Holbrook, who represents Davis, Weber and Box Elder counties. Board members are paid a $140,000 salary annually, plus benefits.

After Latter-day Saint leaders announced the site of the Lindon Utah Temple on Monday morning, Mayor Jeff Acerson looked out the window of his sunroom at the property and talked about the area’s history and the significance of the arrival of a temple in his city.

“We feel that communities are stronger as they focus on serving others, and I think The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints represents that and really matches well with our community,” said Acerson, a church member who previously served as president of the Rome Italy Mission.

The temple site will be built on the Southeast corner of 800 East and Center Street in Lindon, the First Presidency announced in a brief news release. The Murdock Canal Trail winds along the site’s east border and will give those who walk and bike on the trail a magnificent view of the temple, Acerson said.

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The property once was owned by the late Leon R. Walker, who served the church as a regional representative, president of the Concepción Chile Mission and president of the Missionary Training Center in Lima, Peru.

The site is about 14 acres, Acerson said, and currently includes two homes and farmland that has been used to grow tomatoes, zucchini and other crops each summer.

President Russell M. Nelson announced the Lindon Temple two months ago during the church’s fall general conference.

The temple will be constructed adjacent to Oak Canyon Junior High School and in the vicinity of Rocky Mountain Elementary. It also will be near a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse and a few blocks from the church’s Lindon Shared-Stake Family History Center.

The church release stated that the temple will be approximately 81,000 square feet. It did not issue a rendering of the exterior, but the release said one will be shared later.

A groundbreaking date has not been set.

Acerson said church and city officials will meet Tuesday to begin to coordinate construction planning.

The mayor resigned during his first term to serve as the Rome Italy Mission president and said he was there when the late President Thomas S. Monson announced the Rome Temple.

“For the Italians, it was one of those marvelous experiences. It was as if they had won World Cup in soccer,” he said. “It’s a wonderful day for Lindon now. We’re excited. I don’t know how many times I can say we’re excited.”

Hopes of a possible temple in Lindon initially seemed to dissipate in October 2019 when President Nelson announced a temple in neighboring Orem.

“When he said Lindon we were blown away,” Lindon Utah Stake President David Rutter told the Deseret News after the Lindon Temple announcement two months ago, “especially because we just had the announcement for the Orem Utah Temple last year, which is the district we were told we would be in. So yes, we were very humbled and grateful.”

The Orem Temple groundbreaking was held on Sept. 5 and construction is underway for what will be Utah County’s seventh temple.

Acerson said it soon became clear the church was looking for an additional temple site in Lindon for an eighth temple in the valley.

Utah now has 17 operating temples with five more under construction in Layton, Orem, Saratoga Springs, St. George (Red Cliffs Temple) and Taylorsville. Two additional temples in the state have been announced in Syracuse and Tooele Valley.

The church’s release said temples “differ from meetinghouses or chapels where members meet for Sunday worship services. Each temple is considered a house of the Lord where Jesus Christ’s teachings are reaffirmed through baptism and other ordinances that unite families for eternity. In the temple, church members learn more about the purpose of life and make covenants to follow Jesus Christ and serve their fellow man.”