Townhouses. Condos. Houses and more houses. Shops. What’s coming to your neighborhood
The latest proposed developments, other construction projects and new businesses around Idaho’s Treasure Valley:
Boise
Boise’s Planning and Zoning Commission approved an application for townhouses at 3435 N. 33rd Street for the Forsythia Commons subdivision.
The commission also recommended that the Boise City Council approve the developer’s request for a rezoning and a subdivision.
The project is from Wiseco LLC, a company registered to Tyson J. Wise of Boise. It would includes 14 townhouses on 0.9 acres. Each building would be two stories tall, and each unit would be three bedrooms with roof decks and two-car garages.
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Boise Mobility LLC leased 1,395 square feet of retail space at 339 N. Milwaukee St., Colliers International Idaho reports.
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Boise Rock School bought 6,895 square feet of retail space at 5022 W. Fairview Ave., where Pleasure Boutique operated until its recent closure, TOK Commercial reports.
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Sound engineer Charlie Hewitt, a 25-year veteran of the audio business, has opened Mirror Studios, a post-production audio studio, at 3380 W. Americana Terrace, Suite 300.
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Boost Media, a Boise marketing business, has opened a studio that people can book for photography and videography. The studio is inside Boost’s office at 609 W. Main St. in Old Boise.
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Culligan Water is seeking a permit to create 9,710 square feet of warehouse space and 2,199 square feet of office space at 12323 W. Franklin Road.
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Twisted Sugar, a cookie restaurant, is seeking a permit to make alterations to a bakery shop at 10804 W. Fairview Ave. The work will include floor and wall refinishing and the addition of cabinets, countertops, a display case and a sliding window. The space was previously operated by Sugar Rush.
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Developer Bill Hon is seeking to modify a previous approval for a condominium building at 132 W. Main St. Included in his request is a reduction in height, removal of architectural details and a change to the materials used.
The condos would go in next to a historic home at 2nd and Main streets. According to previous Statesman reporting, Hon originally planned to tear that home down, but he was stopped by the Boise City Council when it enacted an emergency ordinance to block the demolition. The council later enacted a permanent ordinance.
The proposed three-story building would have seven units, three two-bedroom condos and four one-bedroom units. An interior garage would have room for seven cars and 13 bicycles.
Boise’s Historic Preservation Commission has scheduled a public hearing on Hon’s request at 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25, virtually at cityofboise.org/virtual-meetings and in person at Boise City Hall, 150 N. Capitol Blvd.
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Kuna
Primary Health Medical Group has opened its newest clinic, its 21st and its first in Kuna, at Deer Flat and Meridian roads.
“Kuna has perhaps been our most requested location in recent years, and we broke ground just days before the first COVID-19 case was discovered in Idaho last March,” said Dr. David Peterman, Primary Health’s CEO, in a news release. “Since then, we have had to change nearly everything about the way we care for patients in order to keep them safe, while also protecting our staff and providers.”
Primary Health has also broken ground on a new Boise clinic at Cole and Victory Roads, expected to open this summer.
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Garden City
Madrid Barber, a family owned and operated, luxury, one-chair barbershop in the Owyhee Plaza apartment building in downtown Boise, has leased 467 square feet of retail space at 405 E. 42nd St., Unit 4, reports Colliers International Idaho.
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Meridian
The Meridian City Council voted unanimously to approve a 254-house development south of West Overland Road and east of South. Ten Mile Road.
The development, the Southridge South subdivision, would be on 84 acres
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Brighton Development seeks to build 59 single-family homes on 11.7 acres on the south side of West Chinden Boulevard, about one-third of a mile west of North Ten Mile Road.
The Meridian City Council plans a hearing on the project at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26.
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Doug McMaster of T&M Holdings seeks to build 42 houses on 5 acres north of West Franklin Road and east of North Black Cat Road.
The Meridian City Council will hold a hearing on the project at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26.
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Wellness Fusion Med Spa is seeking to turn a former golf pro shop into a medical spa at 6800 N. Spurwing Way.
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Idaho LeanFeast LLC has leased 1,362 square feet of retail space at 2830 N. Eagle Road, Suite 120, reports Colliers International Idaho.
The company is managed by David Musgrave, formerly of Post Falls, now of San Jose, California; and Jose Cong, of San Jose. LeanFeast is a chain of franchised restaurants that provide for pickup or delivery.
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Eagle
Urban Solutions, an LLC registered to Steven Hart of Eagle, seeks to build a 113-house subdivision called Stag Crossing on the south side of West Beacon Light Road.
The project also would have 22 common lots. Included in the application is a request that Eagle annex from Ada County the 67 acres the project would sit on, an associated rezone, a conditional use permit and preliminary plat approvals.
The Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously recommended approval of the project.
The Eagle City Council has scheduled a public hearing at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26. Testimony will be accepted only remotely via WebEx. Information on how to sign up and log in to the meeting is available at www.cityofeagle.org/1698/Virtual-Meetings.
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Around Idaho
The state and the city of McCall are considering relocating nearly 2-1/2 miles of Idaho 55 from away from downtown, creating a bypass that would cost about $17 million, reports The Star-News in McCall.
The state and city commissioned a study of a proposal to trade ownership of parts of two city streets and the state highway. An average of 11,000 vehicles pass through downtown McCall daily, up from 8,800 20 years ago, said the study, conducted by Horrocks Engineers of Meridian.
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Notable
Now that 2021 is here, one question in Boise’s tech sector is: Will Clearwater Analytics go public?
Barron’s, citing unnamed sources, reported last fall that the Boise investment-data analytics company was preparing for an initial public offering of stock this year. That preparation included the acceptance by Clearwater’s majority shareholder, a New York buyout firm, of minority ownership by two other investment firms in a deal that valued Clearwater at about $3 billion.
An IPO would let Clearwater’s investors cash out some or all of their investments.
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a New York buyout firm that took a majority stake in Clearwater in 2016, hired an investment bank to review options for the company, two unnamed sources told Reuters last August. In October, Clearwater announced an unspecified investment by the Permira, Warburg Pincus, Dragoneer Investment Group and Durable Capital.
The Clearwater Building at 777 W. Main St., a nine-story building adorned with the company’s logo, is perhaps how Clearwater is best known to most Boiseans. It has served as the company’s headquarters since 2016.
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Micron Technology Inc. , Idaho’s largest for-profit employer, reported fiscal first-quarter net income of $803 million and revenue of $5.77 billion.
On a per-share basis, the Boise company, said it had profit of 71 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 78 cents per share.
For the current quarter ending in March, Micron expects its per-share earnings to range from 68 cents to 82 cents. The company said it expects revenue in the range of $5.6 billion to $6 billion for the fiscal second quarter.
Micron shares have climbed since the beginning of the year, reaching $79.05 on Jan. 7, an increase of 36% in the last 12 months.
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The Boise City Council has voted to move forward an ordinance that would offer developers a “housing bonus” if they meet certain qualifications.
By encouraging projects that offer affordable housing, exist near an activity center or preserve historical structures, the city hopes to fill the gap between the housing that exists and what is needed over the next 20 years. Projects that meet certain requirements can be eligible for denser development, more floors or fewer parking spaces than city code would otherwise permit.
Opponents worry that the bonus would leave the power with developers or otherwise do too little to increase affordable housing. People also had concerns over the ordinacne’s “streamlining” of projects, which some felt would reduce the chance for the public to weigh in.
The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended unanimous approval of the ordinance during its hearing on the ordinance last month.
Council President Elaine Clegg proposed several changes, including:
- A monthly report to the council about how many applications are coming through.
- A requirement to notice administrative approvals.
- A limit on zones where the affordable housing bonus could be used.
- A report on the applications that have gone through using this ordinance at the six.-month and one-year marks.
Those changes will be included at the ordinance’s first reading, scheduled for the council’s next meeting at noon Tuesday, Jan. 26. An ordinance must be read three times for approval.
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Elaine Clegg, Boise’s longest-serving council member, was elected to another year as the Boise City Council’s president. Lisa Sánchez was elected unanimously to be council president pro tem.
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The Meridian City Council voted unanimously to approve Councilman Treg Bernt as council president. Councilman Brad Hoaglun was elected vice president.
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The Associated Press contributed.
This story was originally published January 14, 2021 at 4:00 AM.
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