New downtown Boise housing. More houses, apartments, fourplexes. What’s coming near you

The latest proposed developments, other construction projects and new businesses around the Treasure Valley:

Eagle

Steven E. Roth requested design review approval to build a 13,572-square-foot, mixed-use three-story building on a 0.4-acre parcel at 79 East Aikens Road, near the intersection of East Aikens Road and South 1st Street.

The building would include 8 residential units and three commercial spaces that could be used to house artist studios, office space, a small restaurant, or retail.

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Paradigm Construction requested design review approval to build a 2,500-square-foot multitenant office building at 553 South Fitness Place, off State Street.

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Boise

The board of Boise’s urban renewal agency, the Capital City Development Corp. voted to buy a 0.4-acre vacant parcel on a residential block at 1715 W. Idaho St. for $605,000. CCDC plans to release a request for proposals in the coming months to develop housing on the site.

Previously, Mussell Construction had planned to build 17 residential units there, eight of which could have been short-term rentals. But the developer’s plans fell through, prompting CCDC to buy the property.

“The currently vacant and underutilized parcel is located within CCDC’s Westside District and has some redevelopment barriers, such as encroachments and soil remediation,” CCDC said in a news release.

“I think this is a key in connecting what has become a more developed side of downtown and the West End,” said CCDC board Chair Dana Zuckerman. “I’d love to see housing and development continue down this corridor.”

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The Boise City Council approved a rezone of 4.3 acres at 9000 W. State Street from R-1A (single-family residential with 2.1 units per acre) to R-3D (multi-family residential with design review, allowing for 43.5 units per acre).

Developer Kelly Kitchens seeks to build 60 apartments on the property, split between six two-story buildings. The site right now has a farmhouse built in 1940 and an old silo.

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Dean Pape of Ash + River Investments LLC is seeking a permit to add a coffee shop to a vacant building shell next to the Ash Street Townhomes at 501 S. Ash St. The building has 470 square feet.

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Hothead Headliners, a Meridian company founded by Mark Ambrose that makes headliners (interior roof and window liners) and sound insulation for Jeeps, has leased 10,500 square feet of industrial space at 8068 W. Woodlark St., near Maple Grove and Victory roads in southwest Boise, according to TOK Commercial Real Estate.

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Mod Salon is seeking an occupancy permit for a hair salon at 106 N. 6th St. The space formerly housed a different salon.

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Fussy Hussy is seeking a permit to turn a house at 4916 W. State St. into a retail shop.

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Nampa

Schultz Development of Boise and Brandt Agency Inc. of Nampa applied to build 121 single-family houses on 39 acres at the southeast corner of Middleton and Greenhurst roads.

The subdivision, located south of Red Hawk Golf Course, would be called Herron Ridge.

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Kurt Smith of Melba applied to build a 8 fourplexes, totaling 32 units, on a 3-acre parcel 2000 S. Midland Blvd., south of Iowa Avenue and north of Greenhurst Road.

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IndieDwell, a Boise company that makes affordably-priced homes from steel shipping containers, has plans to build a duplex at 624 7th Ave.

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Meridian

Meridian-based developer Ball Ventures Ahlquist is building a 33,430-square-foot, two-story mixed-use office building at 5490 W. Chinden Blvd., as part of the Central Valley development. The project is slated to cost $2.5 million, according to BuildZoom.

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Notable

The city of Boise has selected Stephanie Inman, a local artist, for Boise City Hall’s Suffrage Public Art project.

Inman will makE a “suffrage quilt” designed to celebrate the successes of Boise’s suffragists. It will have a timeline at the bottom to tell a broader national story.

According to the Boise Department of Arts and History, the quilt will remain unfinished “to illustrate that these successes did not secure the voting rights for all women, and even today there is still work to do.”

The artwork will be located on the southern side of Boise City Hall, although fabrication and installation are on hold due to COVID-19.

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This story was originally published June 11, 2020 at 4:00 AM.

Kate Talerico

Idaho Statesman

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Kate reports on growth, development and West Ada and Canyon County for the Idaho Statesman. She previously wrote for the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Providence Business News. She has been published in The Atlantic and BuzzFeed News. Kate graduated from Brown University with a degree in urban studies.

John Sowell

Idaho Statesman

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