Big development off I-84 east of Boise. New highway. Apartments. What’s coming near you
The latest proposed developments, housing and other construction projects, and new businesses around Idaho’s Treasure Valley:
Boise
A $100 million, seven-story downtown building with 334 apartments just received an assist from downtown property-tax payers.
The Broadstone Saratoga building on West Grove Street between 12th and 13th streets will be eligible to receive about $1.3 million in reimbursements for public improvements from Boise’s urban renewal agency, assuming the developer builds it as planned.
Capital City Development Corp.’s board voted Monday, Aug. 8, to approve the payments. The Broadstone Saratoga is on track to be built at 1210 W. Grove St., taking up the block between 12th and 13th streets and from Front to Grove streets. Daily Front Street commuters would see it prominently.
The building is planned to have studios, one-bedroom and two-bedroom residential units that would rent for $1,500 to $2,000 per month, plus ground-floor commercial space. It’s expected to cost $100 million, according to Capital City Development Corp. Construction is planned to begin in November, and completion is scheduled by the end of 2024.
Scottsdale, Arizona’s Alliance Residential Co. is developing the project. The Owyhee apartments are kitty-corner to the northeast across Grove Street. The Hotel Renegade is being built just south of the Owyhee, too.
The public improvements are about $1 million for streetscape upgrades and $300,000 for utility upgrades.
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Boise development company Roundhouse plans to build another apartment building between Broad and Myrtle streets in downtown.
The next building would be between 4th and 5th streets, where a surface parking lot is now. It would be between the Fowler and Hearth on Broad, two other buildings Roundhouse developed.
The company is applying for a rezoning of five parcels to allow a similar type of building to be built. The address used in the application is 411 S. 4th St.
“The existing zone limits the height and density and includes setbacks which will not allow the kind of mixed use development envisioned in Boise’s planning documents, including Blueprint Boise and the Central Addition Master Plan,” Roundhouse’s application said.
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A developer wants to build a two-story building with office and storage space at 787 E. Parkcenter Blvd in Southeast Boise.
The property is vacant. It’s owned by Parkcenter Lots LLC, according to the Ada County Assessor’s Office. That company’s registered agent is Shannon Cook of Eagle.
Hatch Design Architecture’s Jeff Hatch met with city planners for a pre-application conference. Hatch also applied for a neighborhood meeting list to inform nearby residents of a future neighborhood meeting about the proposal.
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The Idaho Transportation Department voted to sell its State Street headquarters Friday, Aug. 5, marking the next step in the department’s departure from its 61-year-old building.
The board’s vote means the building at 3311 W. State St. will be handed over to the Department of Administration, which will be in charge of having it appraised and sold.
ITD spokesperson Reed Hollinshead told the Idaho Statesman that he expects many developers will be interested in buying the 45-acre property.
ITD first moved its state office in January, after the State Street building suffered extensive flood damage. The new headquarters is the 200-acre site of the former Hewlett-Packard campus at 11311 W. Chinden Blvd., purchased by the state in 2018.
The board has since decided to make the move permanent.
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Nampa
The Idaho Transportation Department’s work on the Idaho 16 extension is underway.
The extension will run north to south from U.S. 20/26 to Interstate 84, west of McDermott Road between Ada and Canyon counties. It will tie into the existing Idaho 16 route to Emmett.
Work crews will rebuild the intersection of U.S. 20/26, or Chinden Boulevard, and Idaho 16 and will build a new Idaho 16 interchange on I-84.
ITD warns motorists of the areas that will be closed. Here’s what the agency said in a news release:
On US-20/26 and McDermott Road:
- Access to and from McDermott Road at U.S. 20/26 was closed permanently on Aug. 8. McDermott Road is open to local traffic between McMillan Road and U.S. 20/26.
- McDermott Road is closed for utility work between Ustick and McMillan roads through Friday, Aug. 12.
- The number of lanes on U.S. 20/26 and the existing Idaho 16 route will be reduced through next year as the intersection is reconstructed.
On Interstate 84 and Flamingo Road:
- Drivers on I-84 should expect reduced speeds and overnight lane restrictions between the Black Cat and Robinson Road overpasses. Crews are continuing to build the bridge foundation for a future interchange connecting I-84 to the Idaho 16 extension.
- A portion of Flamingo Road south of I-84 will close until December. Crews are relocating utilities and realigning the road around the new I-84 interchange.
See a map and details about the Idaho 16 corridor at itdprojects.org/sh16corridor.
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DD’s Discounts, a unit of Ross Stores that sells clothing, bed & bath goods, kitchen & dining goods, and home improvement items, has leased 26,200 square feet of retail space at District 208, the former Karcher Mall, TOK Commercial reports.
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Ashley Furniture has opened a 28,000-square-foot store at 16390 N. Marketplace Blvd. in the Treasure Valley Marketplace, TOK Commercial reports.
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Meridian
Codale, an electrical-supply distributor based in Salt Lake City, plans to develop a 24,000-square-foot warehouse at 71 N. 13th St.
Build Zoom first reported the application.
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Ada County
Eleven custom homes are planned on West Victory Road, along with a private road.
The lots are located in a rural part of Ada County, west of Meridian and near the Willowtree subdivision.
Epic Development applied to the county for a preliminary plat.
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Twelve apartments are planned for South Maple Grove Road, in southwest Ada County.
Maple Grove Development LLC, the company listed on the application, initially proposed building 22 apartments on two lots, but that proposal received pushback from neighbors, according to a staff report from Ada County’s Community Planning Division.
The three-story building, at 6162 S. Maple Grove Road on the corner of West Lake Hazel Road, would have 28 parking spaces, according to the report.
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Matrix Construction Inc. wants to build 16 apartments along South Cloverdale Road.
Four buildings, each two stories in height, would have four apartments, according to a staff report from Ada County’s Community Planning Division.
The development would have 36 off-street parking spaces, according to the report.
The land, which is north of the intersection with West Lake Hazel Road at 5971 S. Cloverdale Road, is slated for commercial development.
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Garden City
Flourish Bakery LLC, whose bakers are Danielle N. Burns and Sarah Davis, leased 1,216 square feet of retail space at 3203 W. Chinden Blvd. , Colliers reports.
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Around Idaho
A big planned community southeast of Boise is moving ahead.
The development, Mayfield Springs, is a 760-acre project north of Interstate 84 east of the Ada-Elmore county line.
Westpark Cos. Inc., which owns the development, is making plans to reuse water to irrigate common areas throughout the development and fields at schools.
A wastewater treatment plant is planned in the southwest corner of the development. A company called the Mayfield Sewer and Water Corp. would operate the collection system, groundwater recharge basins and irrigation distribution system.
The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality is seeking comment through the end of August on a draft water reuse permit for the development. The DEQ staff recommended the six-year reuse permit be issued to Mayfield Sewer and Water Corp.
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