A dairy family aims to replace pasture with houses. A 20-story building. Coming near you
The latest proposed developments, housing and other construction projects, and new businesses around Idaho’s Treasure Valley:
Boise
As part of a major plan to overhaul several blocks on the west side of downtown, Boise’s urban renewal agency, Capital City Development Corp., agreed to a real estate swap with the Treasure Valley YMCA.
It’s part of the agency’s Block 68 project. Under the deal, the YMCA will receive 421 N. 10th St., a property that includes the former Idaho Sporting Goods store; while Capital City Development Corp. will receive a parcel with a one-story YMCA building at 419 N. 11th St. and a parcel with a YMCA parking lot at 1111 W. State St.
Plans for the Block 68 project include a 20-story apartment building at 10th and Jefferson streets and a seven-story building at 11th and State streets, accompanied by ground-level stores and parking. The urban renewal agency hopes the new housing and retail will energize that part of downtown.
Capital City Development Corp.’s new parcels are planned for one of the new residential buildings. The YMCA’s new property would be adjacent to its existing property, allowing for an eventual new YMCA.
Since the Capital City Development Corp. parcel was valued at $3.1 million and the YMCA parcels at $4.5 million, the urban renewal agency agreed to pay more than $1.3 million to the YMCA to make up the difference.
The exchange is planned to take place in mid-2023. The delay is meant to avoid a situation in which the agency is stuck with a property it doesn’t want in case either side changes its mind about the deal. Capital City Development Corp. board members explained the delay at their July 11 meeting as a contingency in case a problem arises. The YMCA board also approved the agreement.
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Adler Industrial now has the green light to develop 80-plus acres of land scattered among a dozen parcels owned by the Boise Airport, west of the airport and south of Interstate 84. The parcels are on the north and south sides of Victory Road just east of Cole Road.
Adler entered a master development agreement with the city of Boise, according to a news release.
Adler plans to build more than 1.1 million square feet of industrial space for warehouse, distribution and manufacturing companies, the release said. Adler is partnering with Ball Ventures Ahlquist and Sawtooth Investment Management.
This development is separate from the proposal to develop an industrial park on 153 acres of airport-owned open space south of the airport that has received pushback from residents living on South Umatilla Avenue and the Indian Lakes Subdivision. Adler was selected by the city as the preferred developer for that project, which is scheduled to go before City Council on Aug. 16.
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A three-story building with 48 apartments on the west side of downtown, intended to offer affordable housing, is on budget, and its construction is on time, its developer says.
SMR Development’s Shellan Rodriguez plans an early 2023 opening, she said at the July 11 Capital City Development Corp. meeting.
The building, at 1721 W. Idaho St., is being named The Martha and will mostly serve “workforce” people earning between 80% and 120% of the area median income. That translates to between about $60,000 and $80,000 per year, Rodriguez said.
The building is on the southeast corner of North 18th and West Idaho streets, north of an alley separating it from the New Life Apostolic Church.
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Meridian Development LLC is making plans to build 20 apartments in a building at 1526 N. Steelwood Ave., off West Fairview Avenue and west of North Five Mile Road in West Boise.
Each unit of the Steelwood Apartments is planned to have two bedrooms and two bathrooms, according to an application filed with the city.
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Nampa
A longtime dairy family wants to develop its land into homes, according to the family’s application to the city of Nampa.
The Wagers family wants to build 68 single-family homes on 20 acres on 16645 Portner Road and 11568 Moss Lane.
The Wagers Dairy Subdivision would have 20 acres in Nampa and 40 acres in Caldwell, the application said, since the land overlaps both cities’ areas of impact.
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The Caldwell City Council approved the subdivision last year, but the Nampa City Council denied it. The Wagers family wants to try again.
The family has owned the land since the 1900s. The family said that as subdivisions have sprung up around them, family members can no longer farm. They want to use the land to develop “needed housing” in the area.
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Landmark Pacific Development, an Eagle company, wants to build 20 single-family homes on five acres at 17862 Madison Ave., southeast of Madison Avenue and Conant Street.
The land is agricultural, the application said.
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“We believe the residents of this proposed development will enjoy a quiet neighborhood, with the benefit of excellent access and proximity to the surrounding commercial uses and entertainment activities,” the application narrative said.
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Meridian
Ball Management LLC, an Idaho Falls-based development company, wants to build 28 apartments near a Holiday Inn Express that is under construction.
The company wants to build the Creek View Park apartments on 942 S. Wells Street and 2920 Freeway Drive, the application said. The apartments would be a quarter-mile west of Eagle Road, north of Interstate 84, the application said.
The apartments would be in five four-plex buildings and four duplexes. Each apartment would have three bedrooms.
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Dennis Baker and Associates, which is developing the sprawling Pine 43 subdivision in Meridian, applied to build two warehouses and an office building as part of the subdivision at the southeast corner of East Pine Avenue and North Webb Avenue.
The application did not say what business would go in the buildings, but said they would be on 6.9 acres.
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The Pine 43 subdivision, which is located off Locust Grove Road, north of Pine Avenue, would be built in phases. It would have 196 single-family homes and 159 town houses.
It is also expected to have businesses and office space, BoiseDev reported. The whole project would cover 43 acres, the Pine 43 website said.
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The two commercial buildings would be called the Pine 43 Animal Farm Subdivision.
The Meridian City Council is scheduled to hear the proposal at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 26, at Meridian City Hall.
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Blitmore Co., a Meridian home builder, applied to build a 5,862-square-foot office building at 4667 Summit Way.
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This story was originally published July 19, 2022 at 4:00 AM.
