An Amazon delivery station is finished, but future use is in question. Coming near you
The latest proposed developments, housing and other construction projects, and new businesses around Idaho’s Treasure Valley:
Meridian
Will Amazon actually use a newly built last-mile delivery station in western Meridian?
The Boise builder of the station says the answer to that question is “still not clear.” And Amazon isn’t responding to Idaho Statesman inquiries.
Amazon said this spring that it had overbuilt and has excess capacity now that the pandemic-induced online-buying frenzy has eased. Adler Industrial President Michael Adler told the Statesman that it’s “still not clear” whether Amazon intends to occupy the Meridian station after putting many of its new occupancies on hold.
The 140,000-square-foot station is at 2316 W. Franklin Road, near Ten Mile Road in western Meridian. The building was to have become Amazon’s third delivery station in the Boise area.
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Amazon signed a 15-year lease on the building. A June 29 news release from Cushman & Wakefield, a commercial real estate agency, announced that Adler had sold the station to Carter Exchange of Tampa, Florida, a real estate firm. Michael Adler said the sale simply shifts Amazon’s lease from his company to Carter.
Elsewhere, Amazon is looking to sublease or vacate space, Bloomberg reported in May. If it subleases the Meridian station, Amazon might find eager tenants: The industrial-space vacancy rate in the Boise area is “a tight 1.4%,” Cushman & Wakefield says.
Calls to Carter Exchange and Amazon were not returned.
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Derek Gasser, of DFG Development, a Utah development company, wants to build a dessert drive-thru building at 3333 W. Chinden Boulevard.
The drive-thru would be on 0.9 acres. The drive-thru window would be located north of the building, with parking spots included in the project, the application said.
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Green Avenue Books & Publishing LLC, which describes its business as “an online bookstore that meets your low-vision needs,” plans to open a physical store.
The business leased 1,000 square feet of retail space at 29 E. Fairview Ave., Cushman & Wakefield reports.
Green Avenue is governed by Maria Green, of Meridian
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Boise
Three buildings with 14 town houses could be coming to Southeast Boise.
A development called Greenheads End Townhouses has been proposed at 273 W. Highland St., east of Broadway Avenue. It would have 14 car garage spaces, one for each residential unit.
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An escape room business is making plans to come to Boise.
Labyrinth Escape Games, which has a location in Nampa, applied to open downtown at 168 N. 9th St. near the southeast corner of West Idaho and North 9th streets. The space would be used for “themed team building activities for small groups (normally fewer than eight people).”
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The Chabad Jewish Center is preparing expansion and renovation of its building in West Boise.
Plans for the center, at 1803 S. Maple Grove Road, call for a Jewish ritual immersion pool, kosher kitchen, children’s library, playground, upgraded lobby and social hall and other improvements. The Chabad Jewish Center opened in 2004 and acquired the Maple Grove property in 2017.
“This is the beginning of a new and exciting era for Judaism and the Jewish community in Idaho,” said Rabbi Mendel Lifshitz, director at the Jewish Center, in a news release.
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Nampa
Development company Left Right Center LLC wants to build 20 town houses on the south side of Greenhurst Way.
The subdivision, Parker Estates, would include 10 town houses and eight single-family homes, the application said. The subdivision would be located at 525 E. Greenhurst Way.
The application said the town houses would be sold separately, and their owners could decide whether the units would become rentals or not.
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Breeze Laundry has chosen Nampa as the site of its third laundromat.
Breeze, owned by Eyal Goldman, of Bend, Oregon, has opened two laundromats in Boise, the latest in April at 4026 W. State St. Now it has leased 4,800 square feet of retail space at 1311 12th Avenue Road, where it plans an opening this summer.
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Star
Owners of a Carlsbad, California, automotive repair business, Royal British Motorcars, want to open a new location in Star.
Elizabeth and Tyrone Flower operate Carlsbad British Motorcars, their application said. They seek to open a 9,050-square-foot car-repair shop at 11220 and 11230 W. Hercules Drive.
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Caldwell
A Sport Clips haircuts franchise store owned by Jason Bowman has opened 5210 Cleveland Blvd. in the Clearwater Plaza retail center.
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Notable
Rents in Boise increased 1.2% in June, according to a report from Apartment List. That’s a 5.4% increase from this time last year.
Median rent is $1,211 for a one-bedroom apartment and $1,431 for a two-bedroom. After a decrease in February, it’s the fourth straight month rent has increased.
Rents in Boise are still lower than in many bigger cities. The median two-bedroom rent in San Francisco is $2,636, nearly double the cost in Boise.
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Canyon County ranked as the second least-affordable county in the country in the second quarter of this year, according to a new report.
ATTOM, a provider of real estate and property data, ranked 575 counties and defined affordability for “average wage earners by calculating the amount of income needed to meet major monthly home ownership expenses on a median-priced single-family home.”
The only county with a worse affordability index was Clayton County, Georgia, outside Atlanta. Clayton’s index was 47 while Canyon’s was 48. Anything under 100 is considered less affordable than the historic average.
ATTOM used $43,121 as the typical annual wage in Canyon County and $425,000 as the median sales price of a home in the second quarter. The median home price grew 13.3%, compared with a 5.7% increase in wage growth.
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This story was originally published July 6, 2022 at 4:00 AM.
