If you've spent any time around BYU, you know Wymount Terrace — the cluster of low-slung brick apartment buildings on the northeast edge of campus that has housed married students and young families for generations. It's about to look very different.
BYU has announced that it will deconstruct nine aging buildings on the south side of Wymount Terrace and replace them with 11 new apartment buildings holding 240 apartments. It's one of the larger on-campus housing investments the university has made in years, and it lands in the middle of a Provo housing market where anything near campus is in short supply.
Here's what's actually being built, when, and what it means if you're a student, a family, or just someone watching how fast this corner of Utah Valley is changing.
What's Being Built
The project targets the south section of Wymount Terrace. Nine of the existing buildings there — most of them constructed in 1962 — are being taken down and replaced by 11 new buildings. The new apartments will come in two- and three-bedroom floor plans aimed at families, which is exactly who Wymount serves.
That age is the whole point. Wymount has been a fixture of BYU student-family life for more than six decades, and buildings from the early 1960s are simply due for replacement rather than another round of patching. BYU's administration framed the rebuild as protecting what makes Wymount valuable in the first place — keeping it an affordable, supportive place where student families can "thrive," in the words of Steve Hafen, the university's CFO and administration vice president.
Todd Fischio, BYU's director of residence life, pitched the upgrade in terms of both the buildings and the community around them — better, more energy-efficient apartments while "fostering Christ-centered communities." In plain terms: newer, more efficient units, and a living environment built around the campus's family-ward culture that a lot of Wymount residents specifically move there for.
The Timeline (and the Families Already Moved)
Construction is expected to begin in July 2026, with an estimated two-year build — so a realistic finish is somewhere around 2028, with the usual caveat that big construction projects slip.
The most immediate question for anyone connected to Wymount is what happened to the families living in the nine buildings coming down. BYU has said it already relocated all affected families to comparable housing for the duration of the project. So this isn't a case of residents being displaced with nowhere to go — the moves were handled ahead of demolition.
For prospective residents, the practical takeaway is that Wymount's south section is offline for a while. If you're looking at BYU family housing over the next couple of years, the other on-campus family option — Wyview Park, on the northwest side of campus near the football stadium — and the off-campus family market are where that demand will land in the meantime. Our married and family student housing guide walks through all of those options in detail.
Why This Matters: Provo's Housing Crunch
To understand why a university rebuilding some apartments is genuine local news, you have to understand how tight housing is near BYU.
The university enrolls roughly 32,000 students, a huge share of whom need housing within walking or biking distance of campus. That demand runs headfirst into a simple constraint: Provo is a hemmed-in valley city with limited land, and the blocks immediately around BYU are already built out. The result is a market where student apartments stay full year-round, rents hold stubbornly high, and — for BYU family housing specifically — there's often a waiting list just to get in. It's a recurring theme in local coverage of the Provo rental market, where students and young families alike describe fierce competition for anything close to campus.
The Wymount rebuild doesn't erase that pressure overnight — during construction it briefly removes on-campus family units from the pool. But over the next few years it modernizes and rebuilds capacity on that section, and it signals that BYU intends to keep meaningful family housing on campus rather than letting the aging stock quietly dwindle.
Part of a Bigger Building Wave
The Wymount project isn't happening in isolation. Near-campus development has picked up noticeably, and student housing is at the center of it.
The clearest example: in late 2025, Utah homebuilder Cole West announced it had acquired the site of the long-abandoned Park Plaza apartments at 910 North 900 East — a three-story, 44-unit building from 1965 that the city had flagged as an eyesore. Cole West plans to demolish it and redevelop the site into student housing within easy walking distance of campus, with design details and a timeline to follow city approval. It's a smaller footprint than Wymount, but it's the same story: old, tired near-campus stock getting torn down and rebuilt for students.
Layer these together and a pattern emerges. Between a major university-led family-housing rebuild and private developers targeting shuttered near-campus buildings, the blocks around BYU are in the middle of a slow-motion redevelopment. For a neighborhood where a lot of the housing dates to the 1960s and '70s, that's overdue — and it's reshaping what living near campus will look like by the end of the decade.
The Bottom Line
For BYU's student families, the Wymount Terrace rebuild is mostly good news on a delay: a short-term reduction in on-campus family units, traded for newer, more efficient apartments and a renewed commitment to keeping family housing on campus. For the broader Provo housing picture, it's one more data point that the near-campus market is finally seeing real reinvestment after decades of aging in place.
If you're navigating student housing yourself, start with our guides to married and family student housing at BYU and finding student housing in Provo and Orem, plus our rundown of the best apartments near BYU. And for the wider view on where prices and demand are heading, see our look at the Provo real estate market in 2026.