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Provo’s Wasatch Elementary School welcomes students to new facility after 2-year rebuild
Wasatch Elementary School ushered in a new era as doors opened at the new $44 million campus Wednesday. The school moved locations from its original site at 1080 N. 900 East in Provo right across from Brigham Young University, where it sat since 1949, to a new facility just east of there at 1006 Locust Lane. In 2021, the Provo City School District entered into a land-swap agreement with BYU, selling the aging Wasatch building in exchange for land that already was owned by the university. Construction on the new Wasatch campus began in late 2022. “It's something that we've talked ...