5-story apartments. 150 houses. A historic church converted to a house. Coming near you
The latest proposed developments, other construction projects and new businesses around the Treasure Valley:
Meridian
Builders First Source applied to demolish a building at 632 N. Main St. in downtown Meridian, a lumber shed located across from City Hall.
It’s the site where the Galena Opportunity Fund, a Boise developer, has applied for a conditional use permit to build a mixed-use apartment complex with ground-floor retail.
Builders First Source has been leasing the land from Union Pacific, which has controlled the land along the railway tracks in downtown Meridian.
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The city of Meridian will host a grand opening for its new fire station, the city’s sixth, at West Overland Road, just east of Linder Road, on Thursday, March 12.
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Todd Campbell Construction of Boise is requesting approval from the city of Meridian for the final plat of the Silver Springs subdivision. The project includes 48 houses on 20 acres between Locust Grove Road and Meridian Road south of East McMillan Road.
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Toll Brothers, a national homebuilder based in Horsham, Pennsylvania, is requesting approval from Meridian for the final plat of the sixth phase of its Oaks North subdivision, which would add 36 houses on 14 acres. The subdivision is located between McDermott and Black Cat roads north of McMillan Road.
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The West Ada School District is renovating its Achievement House at Meridian High School, 1720 W. Pine Avenue. The Achievement House is a school for special-needs students who require a small-school setting.
The project is estimated to cost $960,991.
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The Idaho Foodbank, 3630 Commercial Way, is adding a second floor on top of its warehouse. It’s also adding 14,400 square feet of office space, conference rooms, a teaching kitchen and a volunteer center.
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Clean Juice, which bills itself as the first and only USDA-Certified Organic juice bar franchise in the U.S., has opened at 3505 E. Monarch Sky Lane, No. 100, in The Village at Meridian.
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Boise
King Building & Remodeling is seeking a permit to convert The Collective Church building at 1723 W. Eastman St. into a home. It would have four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms.
The project would also add a 350-square-foot garage to the home. The church has moved to 2590 N. Bogus Basin Road.
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Missy Corey and Guy DeKlotz are seeking a special exception permit to operate a coffee house and neighborhood meeting place in an old house at 4222 W. Emerald St.
Cory said five generations of her family have lived in the neighborhood, beginning with her great-great grandfather, who operated a farm off Orchard and Morris Hill streets in 1919. A hearing on the conditional use permit will be held before the Boise Planning and Zoning Commission at 6 p.m. on Monday, March 2, at City Hall, 150 N. Capitol Blvd.
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Phenix Salon Suites is seeking a permit to remodel a tenant space for a hair salon in the Northgate Shopping Center, 7048 W. State St.
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Le Soleil Daycare is seeking a permit to remodel a former medical office at 302 W. Idaho St. into a day care center for up to 40 children.
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WildEarth Guardians, an environmental group based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has leased office space at 910 W. Main St. reports Cushman & Wakefield Pacific.
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Nampa
Nampa’s economic development department has applied to annex and rezone 15 parcels, totaling 355 acres, for future industrial development..
The parcels, bordered by Cherry Lane on the South, Ustick Road on the north, Midland Boulevard on the west and Northside Boulevard on the east, are owned by seven companies. They include Tuft Wayne LLC, JAG Investments LTD, Corey Barton, Adler Industrial and JRL Properties LP.
Annexation is the first step to bring utilities to the properties. All the properties are now farmland. They would be rezoned for industrial use.
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James Newell is requesting a zoning change from residential professional to community business to operate a used car lot at 924 16th Ave. S., southwest of the intersection of Garrity Boulevard and North Sugar Street near Mason Creek.
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Jim Payne is asking for a conditional use permit to sell firearms, ammunition, and accessories at a new gun store called Jim’s Guns, Amo and Repair at 1527 N. Park Centre Place, located north of Caldwell Boulevard to the east of Midland Boulevard.
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Eagle
Mustang 35, a company managed by real estate agent Mark Bottles, applied to build a 67-house subdivision on 30 acres on West Breanna Drive, north of the Flint Estates subdivision.
Around Idaho
An Eagle company that operates nursing homes has acquired a struggling assisted-living and nursing home in Bellevue, in Blaine County, through a bankruptcy auction. Cascadia Healthcare, through its Cascadia Real Estate LLC unit, bought Bell Mountain Village and Care Center from Pocatello’s Safe Haven Health Care.
Cascadia’s Treasure Valley operations include Shaw Mountain of Cascadia and Cascadia of Boise, both in Boise; The Orchards, Cascadia of Nampa, and Wellspring Health and Rehabilitation, all in Nampa; and Caldwell Care and Canyon West, both in Caldwell.
Safe Haven filed for bankkruptcy in 2018. It also operated Safe Haven Hospital of Treasure Valley, a psychiatric hospital at 8050 W. Northview St. in Boise. That hospital has since been sold to the nonprofit Lifeways Inc. and renamed Lifeways Hospital.
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One Magic Valley fish-farming business has just bought another. Riverence Holdings LLC has bought Clear Springs Foods Inc. of Buhl.
Riverence says the purchase makes it the largest land-based producer of trout in the Americas. The combined companies employ more than 450 people. Existing brands, employees and markets will be maintained, Riverence said in a news release.
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Idaho State University plans to build a new technical education center on its Pocatello campus to train students in diesel power generation systems. The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration awarded Idaho State $2.3 million, to be matched by the university and donors.
The university says all of its graduates from the diesel-technology find jobs, as industry demand exceeds the number of graduates. Students graduate with associate’s degrees after two years of study.
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Notable
Nampa has a new city councilwoman, Jean Mutchie.
Mutchie was appointed by Mayor Debbie Kling on Tuesday, Feb. 3, after Councilman Rick Hogaboam stepped down in January to take a job at City Hall as Kling’s chief of staff.
This story was originally published February 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM.
