I-84 widening. The latest from Amazon, In-N-Out. Apartments aplenty. Coming near you
The latest proposed developments, housing and other construction projects, and new businesses around Idaho’s Treasure Valley:
Boise
A developer wants workers to begin site preparation soon on a big apartment complex in Southwest Boise that drew opposition from neighbors but ultimately won the Boise City Council’s approval.
Layton Construction Co. LLC, of Sandy, Utah, is preparing to build Victory Flats, a $65 million development at 8373 W. Victory Road that Layton previously said would have about 300 apartments and town houses. Neighbors opposed it, citing traffic and density.
Layton plans one-, two- and three-bedroom units on the property, which sits between South Trabuco Avenue and South Milwaukee Lane and north of West Junior High School.
It is just north of the city-owned Murgoitio parcel, an undeveloped site long planned for a park that became controversial in 2021 after city officials considered it for an affordable-housing project.
Layton’s filing of a request for a city site-preparation permit was first reported by BuildZoom.
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Kimley-Horn, an engineering and design firm, is representing a developer planning to build what an application calls the Medistar NuTex Micro Hospital at 8764 W. Hackamore Drive, near Maple Grove and Overland roads.
The hospital would have a full emergency department with eight exam rooms including one trauma room and one isolation room; a full imaging department, and six overnight patient beds.
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A permit has been filed for the demolition of the old Pier 1 store building outside the Boise Towne Square mall to allow for construction of the In-N-Out Burger restaurant planned for 140 N. Milwaukee St.
The In-N-Out is designed to have a drive-thru and a patio.
The popular In-N-Out chain also has a restaurant in the works at The Village at Meridian.
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Plans are moving forward for the Allumbaugh Apartments, two 12-unit, three-story buildings with 24 apartments at 408 N. Allumbaugh St.
Developer Jim Merkle, with Milstick Properties, first filed an application in April for the project where a health clinic existed on the Bench. It is still pending review.
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Retail space at the Boise Towne Square mall will be remodeled for EntertainMart, whose website describes the business as a one-stop-shop for all things entertainment and pop culture.
EntertainMart has stores in Idaho Falls, Coeur d’Alene and Utah. It sells video games, music, movies on DVD and Blu-ray, posters, toys and other items.
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Erstad Architects has filed plans to convert an assisted living center, Arbor Village, to apartments at 1093 S. Hilton St., Boise.
The proposal requires a reduction in units from 115 residences to 77 apartments.
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Pivot North Architects requested a list of neighbors to contact for a meeting about a developer’s plan to build 170 apartments in a six-story complex on the western edge of the Boise Bench just south of the Interstate 184 Connector.
A Pivot North architect met with city officials in the spring to discuss an “active adult community” at 60 N. Cole Road, the southeast corner of Cole and West Bethel Street. The proposal asked for a height exemption allowing the building to be 68.5 feet tall.
City staff members recommended that some units be rented out at affordable rates to support the height variance request and a proposed reduction in the city’s minimum required number of parking spaces.
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Amazon has launched a 31,000-square-foot air cargo center at the Boise Airport.
The Amazon Air gateway will handle packages for customers throughout the region, Amazon said in a news release. It will operate once a day, with flights in and out of the airport between 2:54 and 4:24 p.m., according to the release.
The Seattle-based company’s expansion into Idaho intends to connect fulfillment centers and delivery networks for faster deliveries.
“This new gateway ensures we can deliver on our customer promise of fast, free deliveries,” Amazon Air Gateway Operations Director Chris Preston said in the release.
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Adler Industrial proposed a 92,750-square-foot industrial building at 2545 S. Fry St., just northwest of the Boise Airport. It is planned as a shell and core structure now, with no tenants.
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Wesley Steele of Steele Architecture New plans to construct a 33,752 square-foot industrial building for D&A Door Co. on the vacant portion of a lot at 2667 S. Victory View Way near Victory and Maple Grove roads.
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Boise plans to add Wi-Fi to three downtown parks by next fall in an effort to provide more services for residents without data plans.
The $2.3 million project, most of which is funded using federal COVID-19 stimulus money, will bring internet hotspots to Julia Davis, Ann Morrison, and Cecil D. Andrus parks.
Underground cables must first be installed at the parks, Doug Holloway, Boise’s director of parks and recreation, told the Idaho Statesman by phone. The work would provide Wi-Fi at shelters and other high-use areas. It is expected to be completed by fall 2023.
WiFi is now available at Boise libraries and City Hall.
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Meridian
Matt Schultz, of Schultz Development LLC, and Percy Farms LLC, owned by James Percy, plan to build 226 homes on 37 acres on South Meridian Road.
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The Allure Subdivision would be at 5385 Meridian Road, between East Amity and East Lake Hazel roads. Its homes would include 72 single family homes, 51 duplexes and 104 town houses.
It would be built in five phases, according to the application.
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Charles Rausch, the owner of a five-acre property, plans to develop 15 single family homes at 2707 S. Stoddard Road.
Houses in the Slatestone Subdivision would have 1,900 to 3,000 square feet each, the application said.
The Meridian City Council approved the application on Tuesday, Nov. 1.
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A two-story building with an upstairs open-patio restaurant and bar may be built on Linder Road near West Ann Taylor Street.
Teton at Sawtooth Village would occupy the 7,274-square-foot, multitenant building on a vacant lot at 4610 N. Linder Road owned by T S Development LLC, a Boise company managed by Thomas M. and Susan K. Bevan, according to an application to the city.
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Kuna
The Kuna Fire District just won voter approval to build a new fire station.
Kuna voters on Tuesday, Nov. 8, passed a $750,000 annual tax levy for a budget increase and a $6 million bond for the district to accommodate growth.
The bond will result in a tax of $7.20 per $100,000 of taxable assessed value, per year, the district said. The levy would have in a tax increase of $16.34 per $100,000 of taxable assessed value, each year, based upon current conditions.
Combined, the levy and bond would cost $6.79 per month, or $81.45 per year, for an owner of a $346,000 home with Idaho’s homeowners exemption on primary residences, the district said in a news release before the election. The $346,000 figure is average for the area, the district said.
The fire district levy passed with 71% of the vote, according to unofficial results from the Ada and Canyon county elections offices.
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Ada County
Ada County plans to buy a property near the airport to serve as a home for its new drug treatment court.
The Ada County Commission voted on Nov. 3 to approve the purchase of a building and land at 3220 W. Elder St. in Boise, according to a resolution.
The drug court is now located at 400 N. Benjamin Lane, which commissioners have said is not adequate. The commission also thinks having the treatment center at the same building as county election, driver’s license and other county servies is “not preferred,” according to the resolution.
The new location was bought for $5.8 million in October.
Nampa
Melba Valley Martial Arts LLC leased 2,938 square feet of retail space at 1225 12th Ave., TOK Commercial reported.
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Starbucks leased 2,225 square feet of retail space at Northside Boulevard and 6th Street North, Cushman & Wakefield reported.
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Caldwell
The Idaho Transportation Department plans to widen Interstate 84 between the Centennial Way and Franklin Road interchanges in Caldwell.
The improvements include widening I-84 to three lanes in each direction, replacing the 10th Avenue interchange, adding a traffic signal at the Centennial Way westbound off-ramp, building a sound wall along Hannibal street, and rehabilitating the pedestrian bridge over the interstate, the department said in a news release.
The department seeks comments at itdprojects.org/projects/i-84-centennial-way-to-franklin-ic.
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Around Idaho
The company that owned a Pocatello semiconductor-chip foundry in Pocatello for more than a decade has sold it.
Onsemi, formerly ON Semiconductor, sold the the plant to LA Semiconductor, according to a news release form Atreg Inc., a Seattle business that helps companies “divest and acquire infrastructure-rich advanced technology manufacturing assets.”
The plant had been owned by Phoenix-based ON since 2008, when it bought the parent company of the former owner, AMI Semiconductor. The plant makes application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, for various commercial markets.
Onsemi still owns a smaller plant in Nampa that it bought from Aptima Imaging in 2014., and it has a design and engineering office in Meridian.
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Notable
Idaho’s wine-grape growers reported higher-than-average yields this year despite a cool and wet spring.
The Idaho Wine Commission said warm weather through summer and much of October helped fruit ripen, resulting in a later-than-usual harvest.
“Cellular development in grapes occurs in spring, and we had a cool spring, leading to bigger berries and more fruit,” Jake Cragin, of Skyline Vineyards in Nampa, said in a news release. “With the warm summer and fall, the grapes were able to bake in the oven just right for really great quality.”
Parts of Idaho’s Snake River Valley American Viticultural Area are in the Treasure Valley. So is the Eagle Hills AVA north of Boise.
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Idaho homeowners are still “equity rich,” though not as rich as they were three months months ago, a national real estate data firm says.
Idaho had the steepest decline in owners’ equity in mortgaged homes from the second quarter of 2022 to the third, falling from 695% to 65.8%, said ATTOM said in a news release.
ATTOM said a homeowner is “equity rich” when the estimated amount of the homeowner’s loan balance secured by that home is less than 50% of the home’s estimated market value.
It’s especially good to be a homeowner in Central Idaho’s Blaine County, the home of Ketchum, Sun Valley and Hailey. ATTOM said 84.4% of Blaine County’s homes were equity-rich — the third-highest among 1,627 counties with at least 2,500 mortgaged homes nationwide.
And the equity-richest of them all are homeowners in Hailey zip code 83333. ATTOM said 87.7% of them were equity rich — the highest percentage among all 8,716 U.S. zip codes that had more than 2,000 mortgaged homes.
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This story was originally published November 10, 2022 at 4:00 AM.
