Apartments near Boise River. An RV park. Restaurants. What’s coming to your neighborhood
The latest proposed developments, other construction projects and new businesses around the Treasure Valley:
Garden City
Patrick Hugens of Hutchinson Smith Architects is requesting a pre-application conference and design review approval for The River at Parkway Apartments, a multifamily development near the intersection of East 43rd and North Adams streets.
The proposed development, which would replace a mobile home park, would be 4 stories tall and would have 70 units. The building would be structured around an internal parking structure that would be three levels and have 158 spaces. It will have extended patios and balconies that overlook the street.
The apartments would be split up into eight one-bedroom units, 58 two-bedrooms and four three-bedrooms.
A date for a hearing on the project has not been set.
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Mark Grove of Tamarack Grove Engineering is seeking a design review meeting for a commercial loft space at 3801 W. Chinden Blvd.
As proposed, the building would be about 8,600 square feet.
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Boise
Locus LLC, owned by Missy Cory and Guy DeKlotz, is seeking a conditional use permit at 4222 W. Emerald St. to open a restaurant in a residential zone in the Central Rim neighborhood.
According to the application, the 637-square-foot space would serve as a coffee shop and a public house. Boise’s Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval the project, saying in its letter that the restaurant is compatible with other land uses in the area and would not create an undue burden on traffic other services in the vicinity.
The Central Rim Neighborhood Association also sent a letter of support for the shop.
The Boise City Council plans to hold a virtual public hearing on the project at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 19.
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A 120-unit recreational-vehicle park would be built southwest of Costco Wholesale under a proposal reviewed by the Ada County Highway District.
Dale Pipken, of Pipken Construction, proposed the Boise Travel Park at 7801 W. Lemhi St. between Saturn Way and Skillern Drive and immediately north of two proposed industrial flex-use warehouses named Pioneer Creek Flex-Tech.
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The Boise City Council plans to consider an amendment to the city development code to clarify existing regulations and to refer to newly adopted floodplain maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The change amends the code to change freeboard elevations — any requirement to elevate the first floor of a building — to 1 foot in the Foothills gulches and to 2 feet along the Boise River.
A virtual public hearing on the proposed changes was canceled Tuesday, May 5, because of technical problems.
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Tandem Diabetes Care is seeking a permit to make exterior improvements to its leased building at 1500 W. Shoreline Drive. The work at the 94,695-square-foot building would include installation of a new electrical generator, new doors and patching and painting of the exterior. The work would cost an estimated $375,275.
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Meridian
GFI Meridian Investments, a company controlled by Trevor and Derek Gasser of Bountiful, Utah. applied to annex and rezone 42 acres in Ada County for a future commercial and high-density residential development at the northeast corner of North Ten Mile and West Franklin roads.
The project, called Gateway at 10 Mile, would include office and retail space. The developers are also proposing to keep the Ten Mile Creek waterway open, to be used as a natural amenity on the site.
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Gem Prep looks to annex 8 acres at 5390 N. McDermott Road for a second Meridian campus for the Gem Innovation School, a charter school with an existing campus at 2750 E. Gala St. in Meridian, as well as campuses in Nampa and Pocatello.
The new school would be a one-story 42,408 square-foot building, and would also include recreational play fields. The building would be surrounded by parking lots.
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The Meridian Little School, which has operated since 2018, requested a conditional use permit to allow for 25 students at its day care center at 2208 N. Linder Road, an increase from the current maximum of 12. The school is in the home of Darla Hammer.
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Todd Campbell Construction seeks to annex 10 acres of land at 5885 N. Locust Grove Road, south of Chinden Boulevard, to build a 50-house subdivision called Allmon. The houses would be between 1,400 and 2,000 square feet each.
Eagle
Bella Biscotteria, an Italian bakery managed by Adrian and Robyn Kutch, is opening a brick-and-mortar store at 190 W. State St. in downtown Eagle.
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A new coffee shop, as well as a home decor store called Deja Vu Decor, are going in at the southwest corner of Idaho 55 and Hill Road, at 36 N. Echohawk Way.
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A restaurant called the Squeeze In Cafe is opening at 228 E. Plaza St., Suite F, at the former site of Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt.
The store previously said on its Facebook page that it was aiming to open Friday, May 1. More recent pictures from the Facebook page show the restaurant still under construction.
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Notable
Workers in the Boise area had an average hourly wage of $22.68 in May 2019, up 3.8% from a year earlier but still about 12 percent below the nationwide average of $25.72, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says.
The Boise area’s year-earlier average was $21.86. Wages for doctors and other highly paid workers raised the average wage significantly above the median wage, which is the point where half of all earners earn more and half less. The area’s median wage in 2019 was $17.62, up 3.9% from $16.96 a year earlier.
According to the bureau:
▪ No Boise-area wages were higher than their respective national averages in 22 major occupational groups, and 18 groups had significantly lower wages than their respective national averages, including management, legal, and computer and mathematical.
▪ Boise had 19,360 jobs in construction and extraction, accounting for 5.8 percent of local employment, significantly higher than the 4.2-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $20.41, significantly below the national wage of $25.28.
▪ When compared with the nationwide distribution, Boise-area employment was more highly concentrated in five of the 22 occupational groups, including construction and extraction, office and administrative support, and management. Seven groups had employment shares significantly below the national averages, including transportation and material moving, educational instruction and library, and food preparation and serving.
▪ The highest paying local occupation was “physicians, all other, including opthalmologists except pediatric,” averaging $112.11 per hour.
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This story was originally published May 6, 2020 at 4:00 AM.
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