The
Yard
Provo, Utah · Canyon Park Tech Center
The Brief
Canyon Park Tech Center was built in 1985 as the WordPerfect headquarters. After the Novell merger, the campus was sold off and quietly went into decline. By the time The Muller Company bought it, half the buildings sat empty.
The bones were good. Fourteen buildings, walkable footprint, proven tech-corridor location. What the campus was missing was a reason to be there — somewhere outside that didn’t feel like a leftover from another decade.
The brief was direct: backfill the offices without touching the buildings. Find the reason 10,000 daily users would actually want to be on this campus.
Every move had to land in the spaces between buildings.
Standout Features
Project Film
A campus with a pulse.
The Yard is easier to understand in motion: people crossing paths, outdoor rooms connected by one flexible core, and a campus that finally feels alive between the buildings.
Our Approach
The campus didn’t need new buildings. It needed a reason to step outside. So we treated the outdoor space like the building it was missing.
Two basketball courts and a couple of sand volleyball pits. That’s what was there before. Functional, technically. Not used. The Yard replaced them with one continuous outdoor “yard” at the campus core, balancing flexibility and structure.
We leveraged our rooftop discipline — layering functions, planning sightlines, designing for compact use without crowding. Open lawn flows into seating. Seating flows into fire and hammock zones. Both solitary recharge and collective energy live on the same ground.
The design needed to flex from weekly basketball games to food-truck dining to axe-throwing nights without a remodel. Modular layouts, resilient materials, and movable furnishings made the space adapt without losing identity.
Outdoor space isn’t a luxury here. It’s the lever that drives culture — and the lever that drives the lease.
What if your campus
became the reason they stay?
The Yard turned a forgotten courtyard into the campus heartbeat — the place where 10,000 people cross paths daily. Your buildings might be fine. The thing between them is what tenants actually choose.
Imagine This for Your Campus →The Yard at Canyon Park Tech Center is a huge hit with our tenants — gathering for a BBQ, relaxing in the hammock garden, playing fun games with friends. Loft Six Four brought creative vision, expertise in design and planning, and made the entire experience enjoyable
Sue Donahugh The Muller Company
Results
The Yard now serves as a key piece of the recent acquisition and repositioning of the office park. As a prime marketing tool, it continues to provide value to The Muller Company and their growing number of office tenants.
It has supported a dramatic increase in long-term leasing opportunities and building occupancy rates. Outdoor space became the campus’s top sales tool — the thing leasing leads with on every tour.
The Yard demonstrates how much can really be done to improve a space and create large-scale value — without ever touching the buildings.
Designing culture, not just space.
“We’re trying to create a live-work-play environment here with this campus and really tap in to that entrepreneurial spirit.”
Justin Farnsworth — The Muller Company
Your project deserves
this level of thinking.
Whether you’re a developer, architect, or builder — if your outdoor space needs to define the project, we should talk.