Hundreds of houses. A Foothills trailhead with parking. Tire stores. Coming near you
The latest proposed developments, other construction projects and new businesses around the Treasure Valley:
Boise
Ball Ventures Ahlquist has installed outdoor artwork at its Pioneer Crossing complex at 13th and Myrtle streets in downtown Boise.
The artwork is a double archway, titled Roads East, Roads West, designed by Jordan Yankovich and Tara Garrett of KovichCo LLC, an interior-design company in Boise. It represents a gateway into the western edge of downtown.
The artwork was dedicated to the late parents of Scott and Amy Kreiling, BVA said in a news release. Scott Kreiling is a Boise health-insurance executive.
The 5-acre Pioneer Crossing includes a Hilton Garden Inn, an office building, Panera Bread and an 828-stall parking garage.
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Agri Shore LLC is seeking a permit to demolish a 10,000-square-foot office building at 1401 W. Shoreline Drive, next to the Boise River Greenbelt.
The company has not indicated what it plans to do with the property, but it may become part of a larger development that Boise developer Derick O’Neill is working on for a group of investors in that area, just north of the Boise River and east of Americana Boulevard.
That development would include land now occupied by an old Kmart store at Americana and Shoreline, later used by St. Luke’s Health System and recently rented to Tandem Diabetes for a call center.
O’Neill’s River Shore Development shares a building with Agri Beef’s headquarters at 1555 W. Shoreline, west of the building to be demolished. Agri Beef CEO Robert Rebholtz is an organizer of Agri Shore LLC.
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The Boise City Council voted to extend expanded patio dining and parklet dining options until the end of 2021, expanding the popular program started earlier this year to help restaurants socially distance patrons.
“We can give our businesses some certainty leading into the coming year,” Council Member Holli Woodings said after the vote. “They can make some wanted and needed investments in their extended patio spaces and really beautiful our downtown.”
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Over the past decade, an undeveloped area of hills just north of Boise’s North End has become an increasingly popular place to hike, mountain bike, and walk dogs as hawks float overhead. Now the city is building a trailhead at its entrance, complete with 25 paved parking spaces, a two-stall bathroom, three loop-style bike racks, and a drinking fountain with a bottle station and dog bowl.
The trailhead at the Hillside to Hollow Reserve will be built on 8 acres in Harrison Hollow that Boise acquired last year from Healthwise Inc. for $435,000, using voter-approved Foothills Levy funds. Healthwise, a nonprofit health-information service, has its headquarters a few hundred feet south on North Harrison Hollow Lane, just off Bogus Basin Road.
Housing developments encroached on the area for years, and additional development seemed likely. In 2011, the nonprofit Land Trust of the Treasure Valley acquired 58 acres to protect them. Two years later, the city bought 258 adjacent acres with levy funds.
The land trust and the city Parks Department manage all 324 Hillside to Hollow acres together. They have upgraded old trails and added them to the Ridge to Rivers trail system.
“It’s so rewarding to see how popular the Hillside to Hollow Reserve has become,” Parks and Recreation Director Doug Holloway said in a news release. “To acquire the eight acres from our partners at Healthwise and then convert the area into a state-of-the-art trailhead is an incredible addition to one of the most popular recreation assets we have in our trail system.”
Meanwhile, upscale houses are still being built in the Foothills north of the reserve.
Trailhead construction is expected through the winter and into the spring.
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Terry Reilly Health Services is seeking a permit to expand its clinic at 300 S. 23rd St.
A portion of an existing break room and office would be renovated to create a small pharmacy. The clinic would also add an exterior shelter to screen patients before they go inside.
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Tire Choice Auto Service Centers of Rochester, New York, is seeking certificates of occupancy at 1404 S. Orchard St. and 10611 W. Fairview Ave.
Superior Tire formerly operated tire stores at both locations.
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Whitewater Park Apartments at 265 N. Whitewater Park Blvd. is seeking a permit to conduct repairs on 39 balconies.
The work includes demolition of the existing second- and third-floor balconies and replacement.
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Conger Management Group is seeking a permit to demolish two unusually shaped houses and a garage at 9933 W. Victory Road, in the new Music Subdivision.
The Statesman wrote in August about the subdivision after neighbors objected.
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Long Range America is seeking an occupancy permit for an office at 33 N. Phillippi St. The company modifies vehicles for long-range travel.
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Melissa M. Cory Counseling is seeking an occupancy permit at 4222 W. Emerald St.
Hand in Hand Behavioral Health formerly occupied the office.
Eagle
Steve Hart, owner of Eagle’s Urban Solutions LLC, a development and consulting firm, proposes to develop a 113-house subdivision called Stags Crossing on 67 acres south of the Beacon Light Road and west of Lanewood Road.
Hart wants Eagle to annex and rezone the property to allow the development, which is in a rural-urban transition zone. It would be built just east of the proposed Belvoir Estates subdivision of 913 homes on 372 acres that the city of Eagle has not approved. A smaller subdivision, Brookway, also west of the Stags Crossing site, has been approved but not built. It would have 106 houses on 61 acres.
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Hart also seeks to develop a 58-home subdivision on 21.6 acres.
The Moss Creek Subdivision would meet at the end of West Escalante Drive and North Tempsford Way where they intersect with 5806 W. State St.
A public hearing is scheduled at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, at Eagle City Hall. The commission plans to take public testimony remotely via WebEx, accessible at www.cityofeagle.org/1698/Virtual-Meetings.
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Notable
Albertsons Cos. has announced it will pay shareholders 10 cents per share as a dividend for the third quarter of 2020.
It’s the first dividend since the Boise grocery chain went public in June, following 14 years of private ownership.
The dividend, approved by the company’s board of directors, will be paid Nov. 11. it will go to shareholders of record as of Oct. 26.
