You might say Weber State University is now après-ski.

The Utah university has held property at Powder Mountain Ski Resort since the 1980s. But it is officially selling off its parcels.

Weber State announced the deal Thursday during its monthly board of trustees meeting. Mark Halverson, vice president of administrative services for the Ogden school, said he has helped secure the $3.2 million sale for the university’s two parcels.

“That’s well above market value,” he said.

The university came to own the 3.46 acres, Halverson noted, after a wealthy family donated them. The intention was to turn the land — about 21 miles to the northeast of campus — into a science station or night-sky observatory.

But complications over time — and now light pollution in the area — have upended those plans. The effort was also made harder, Halverson said, because the land is split over Cache and Weber counties, which both have different building regulations. The site has also been plagued by legal issues involving water-piping and easement disputes, which have also slightly lowered valuations.

“We have been sitting on that property for a long time,” Halverson said.

The school worked with descendants of the original donors while negotiating the sale to the Summit Mountain Holding Group that manages the resort’s land. The deal has been tentatively signed by Brandi Hammon, the president of that group and the resort.

The resort, itself, is majority-owned by Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and run under a unique public-private business model.

The trustees voted to support the sale unanimously. It goes next to the Utah Board of Higher Education for final approval.

Weber State hopes to reinvest the money from the sale into its current efforts to open up a science field station near Yellowstone National Park.

“It’ll be great to have those resources for that property,” said trustees Chair Keith Titus.

The school has previously said it hopes to build out its vision for research labs, classrooms and dorms on a 47-acre plot near Henry’s Lake in Idaho, about 16 miles from Yellowstone. The price tag for that land is about $980,000.

The school has additionally fundraised more than $2.5 million to construct facilities there. It will be Weber’s first field station, and the idea is to have students from all fields be able to study there, including astronomy, zoology and literature.