More than 1,200 apartments. Subdivisions. Starbucks. A bar. What’s coming near you
The latest proposed developments, other construction projects and new businesses around Idaho’s Treasure Valley:
Boise
The University of Idaho Law School is preparing to move its Boise campus into the former Concordia University College of Law building in downtown Boise in time for the spring semester.
The move, approved by the State Board of Education in June, means the law school will leave its 11-year-old home in the former Ada County Courthouse, now called the Idaho Law Justice & Learning Center, an Art Deco building at 514 W. Jefferson St. built as a Depression public-works project.
Concordia opened its law school in 2012 and closed it in 2020. Its building, now known as 501 Front Street, is owned by Vandal alumnus Jeff Stoddard, who approached the law school about leasing there, Dean Johanna Kalb wrote in a letter to alumni and friends.
The lease will cost $600,000 per year for the first five years of the contract, with subsequent increases every five years, the State Board of Education said in a news release. The U of I has an option to buy the building every five years.
The state law library will move from the old courthouse to the new campus, the university said.
Meanwhile, the U of I has launched a housing clinic, staffed by law-student interns, at Jesse Tree, the Boise nonprofit that helps low-income people at risk of becoming homeless. Concordia ran a housing clinic too.
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Mayor Lauren McLean and City Council members helped break ground on a 205-unit apartment complex that will be the city’s first Housing Land Trust development at 203 S. Orchard St.
Developed by J. Fisher Companies, the mixed-use project will “provide housing at all price points,” according to a city news release. It will include 66 one-bedroom apartments, 118 two-bedroom apartments and 21 three-bedroom units for a total of 365 bedrooms. Space for retailers will be built too.
The Housing Land Trust uses city-owned land for affordable housing.
Construction is planned to begin in early 2022 and completed in 2023.
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Kimley-Horn, a planning and engineering consulting firm, has set up a pre-planning application meeting with city planners to discuss a proposal to build a 256 apartments at 4540 and 4550 W. Overland Road.
The site is currently home to the Country Club Reel Theatre.
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Thomas Wall of Principal Realty Group in Boise has applied to build a new subdivision at 5727 W. Hill Road.
Listed as the “Bend Subdivision,” it would have 40 single-family houses on 8.3 acres.
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Trucking company R+L Carriers is taking the next step in building its long-debated trucking terminal at 9100 S. Eisenman Road.
The Ohio-based company applied for permits to pave, landscape and add lighting and storm water management to what is currently a dirt lot.
The project, located in the Gateway East urban renewal district, would have 74,000 square feet spread across three structures, including a 60,000-square-foot freight terminal and dock, a 5,000-square-foot office building, and a 9,000-square-foot maintenance building.
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Mangum Primary Care, an independent primary care clinic, and DM Acupuncture leased office space at 3046 S. Bown Way, reported TOK Commercial.
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Happy Boba LLC leased 1,525 square feet of retail space at 6932 W. State St., Colliers Idaho reports.
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Nara Ramen leased 1,800 square feet of retail space at 7610 W. State Street, Colliers Idaho reports.
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Meridian
The city of Meridian is looking to build its long-awaited police and fire stations near Owyhee High School.
The two public safety buildings would be next to each other on 3.6 acres at 4250 N. Owyhee Storm Ave. The police precinct building would have 11,560 square feet and the fire station 11,637 square feet.
The police station would have office and meeting areas, a briefing room and intake area, an interview room, break room and fitness/locker room area.
The fire station would have living quarters, a kitchen, restrooms, office and meeting space, a fitness area and an apparatus area.
The buildings would have shared public parking and secured parking for employees.
“The proposed stations will provide essential public safety services to the community,” the application said.
The Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission is scheduled to hear the proposal at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2 in Meridian City Council Chambers.
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Josh Shiverick, of Cushing Terrell, an architecture firm in Boise, applied to build an indoor electric go-kart track in a warehouse in Meridian.
The warehouse is located at 1135 N. Hickory Avenue and would be a 50,000 square foot area.
The business, K 1 Speed, would include the track, concessions, meeting rooms and restrooms. The track would be open Monday through Thursday from noon to 10 p.m., Friday from noon to 11 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission is set to hear the proposal at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, in Meridian City Council Chambers.
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Josh Beach with Brighton Investments applied to build a 396-apartment complex, Eagle View Apartments, north of Overland Road and east of Eagle Road, on 25 acres.
Brighton is proposing the apartments in four 4-story buildings. The apartment complex would share a border on the west with Eagle View Landing and Interstate 84 on the north. It would also be next to the Rolling Hills and Jewell subdivisions on the south.
The apartments would consist of 196 one-bedroom units, 152 two-bedrooms and 48 studios, according to the city application.
Brighton also wants to build six commercial lots to make the area mixed use, the application said.
The Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission is set to hear the proposal at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2 in Meridian City Council Chambers.
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Jim Peterson, of Gold Stream LLC, a development firm in Utah, is proposing to build a Starbucks drive thru coffee shop on the northeast corner of Eagle and Victory roads in Meridian.
The project would include outdoor seating and 19 parking stalls on just over half an acre.
The Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission is set to hear the proposal at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, in Meridian City Council Chambers.
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Josh Beach, with Brighton Corp., applied to build the second phase of the firm’s Hill’s Century Farm Commercial Subdivision. The subdivision would be located on the southeast corner of Eagle and Amity Roads.
The phase would include four commercial lots.
The Meridian City Council is set to hear the proposal at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 23, in Council chambers.
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Mike Homan, with MH Land Development LLC, is looking to build 41 homes and seven common lots in the southeast corner of Meridian Road and Chinden Boulevard.
Homan wants to build Friendship Subdivision on 10 acres.
The Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission is set to hear the proposal at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 6, in Meridian City Council Chambers.
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A large development is in the early application stages in Meridian.
A mixed use development, with retail, town houses and apartments was proposed on 10 acres at the southwest corner of Eagle and Ustick Roads in Meridan.
The application says there is a proposal for a 40,000 square foot retail tenant and a 5,000 square foot retail tenant along Ustick Road. There would be 18 town houses and 96 apartments.
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Construction is starting on an Idaho Central Credit Union at 6348 N. Linder Road in the Orchard Park (formerly Linder Village) development on the corner of Linder Road and Chinden Boulevard in northwest Meridian.
BuildZoom reported the construction-permit application.
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Caravel Autism Health has opened a therapy center at 1905 S. Topaz Way, Suite 100, for children on the autism spectrum.
Caravel previously opened a therapy center for children at 220 W. Georgia Ave. in Nampa.
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Eagle
William and Angela Ziebell are requesting an appeal of the Ada County Highway District’s decision to approve Lennar Homes of Idaho’s preliminary plat application for Skyview Subdivision.
The subdivision would consist of 125 houses, 16 common lots and one commercial lot on 19 acres northwest of the intersection of Park Lane and State Highway 44.
The Ziebells are concerned about the safety risks traffic from this subdivision would bring to pedestrians and drivers.
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Caldwell
Brady Lasher, of Lasher Enterprises, is looking to build a single-family, multifamily and commercial subdivision near intersection of Idaho 55 and Midway Road.
The proposed development consists of 96 single-family homes, one multi-family lot comprised of eight buildings with 204 apartments, two commercial lots including a retail/service development and a mini-storage facility, one lot designated for RV parking, and 15 common lots.
The properties are located 1,500 feet west of the intersection of Idaho 55 and Midway Road on the south side of Idaho 55.
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The Inland Group is looking to build that Timbergrass Apartments, an apartment complex, on 16.6 acres.
The apartments would be located approximately 350 feet southwest from the intersection of 10th Avenue and Ustick Road.
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Open Door Rentals LLC is looking to build 56 apartments on the northwest corner of Idaho 20/26 and Ward Road.
The Virginia Park 4-Plexes, would have 14 residential buildings and 13 common lots.
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Nampa
First Street Property LLC is looking to open a bar in downtown Nampa.
“The concept of the Sick Stag will be a light-hearted cocktail lounge in the basement of a popular street on 1st St. in Nampa,” Derek Cooper wrote in the project narrative. “Our goal is to create an environment where you can go have a really well-executed cocktail in a quiet, intimate setting that will give the city of Nampa a different experience than what is currently available.”
Cooper said the bar plans to also offer appetizers and main courses.
The bar would be located at 1215 1st St.
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Monica Salazar is looking to build a 19-house subdivision, Salazar Point, on 7 acres north of Lake Lowell Avenue, south of Roosevelt Avenue, west of South Middleton Road and east of Midway Road.
The subdivision would have two common lots and one shared driveway lot. The average lot size would be 10,575 square feet, with the smallest lot being 6,442 square feet.
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Around Idaho
The Nez Perce Tribe bought 358 acres of farm, range and development land adjacent to, and north and east of, the tribe’s Clearwater River Casino & Lodge on U.S. 95 in Lapwai.
“The completion of this purchase will allow us to continue moving forward in our economic growth and provide opportunities for possible future development that will complement our existing enterprises,” said Tribal Executive Committee Chairman Samuel Penney in a news release.
Plans for the property have not yet been drafted, but the purchase will provide additional space for the construction of a highway interchange project, the tribe said.
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Boise development company Galena Equity Partners has unveiled a $12 million building in Twin Falls.
Located at 160 Main Ave. S., the six-story, 15,000 square-foot building, still under construction, will be named Main Avenue Loft. Once complete, it will be the first large-scale, mixed-use building in Twin Fall’s growing downtown, the developer said.
The project will include office, retail and restaurant space. It will also feature 44 apartment, of which “20% will be rent restricted at U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development affordable rental rates and leased to households making 80% of the area median income or less,” according to a news release.
The anchor tenant that will be renting the first floor and part of the second will be local company Kickback Points LLC. The company has created a program in which customers earn points by shopping at participating businesses. Other spaces will be filled by Mountain West Bank; Modi, a nonprofit that provides loans; and a 2,800-square-foot restaurant space.
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Notable
Zumper, an apartment-listing service, says Boise’s median rent for two-bedroom apartments in September was at $1,570, a 22% increase from the same month last year and a $70 increase from August.
The median for a one-bedroom in Boise was $1,400, up $20 from August, says Zumper, which bases its prices on its own and some other sources’ current listings. These increases placed Boise as the 34th most expensive rental market in the country, Zumper says.
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This story was originally published November 11, 2021 at 4:00 AM.
