Micron unveils plans for large Boise Airport hangar. What’s behind the plans?
Micron is planning to build a 51-foot-tall aircraft hangar at the Boise Airport.
The memory-chip manufacturer based in Southeast Boise filed an application in late November for the proposed hangar with attached offices and supporting facilities, according to city permitting records.
The project, at 1250 W. Gowen Road, includes the hangar, a paved parking lot with 65 spaces, utility upgrades, landscaping and an aircraft apron, which is the paved area around the hangar used for parking, fueling and boarding or deplaning. No additional access to the public roads is proposed, the application said.
Micron plans to store and maintain its corporate jets at the site, which is owned by the airport, a unit of city government. The site is 4.5 miles from Micron’s headquarters.
The 43,200-square-foot hangar is set to have a 28-foot-high sliding door system and utilities for general servicing and maintenance of airplanes. The lobby and office spaces of the building would be about 7,500-square-feet and the service shop about 5,300-square-feet, according to preliminary planning documents.
The lobby and office spaces would include a passenger reception and waiting area, restrooms, individual and group work spaces, a conference room, break room, inflight kitchen, storage room and information technology room.
Micron already operates a hangar at 3800 S. Orchard St. in Boise. The proposed hangar would replace it.
A neighborhood meeting was held on Jan. 5. The city is now reviewing a planning application for the project submitted by CSHQA, an architecture, engineering and interior design firm based in Boise, on behalf of Micron.
Sanjay Mehrotra, the president and CEO of Micron, travels the globe, visiting customers and employees at plants in Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and Virginia, and dozens of offices across Europe, the U.S. and Asia. He splits his time between the company’s operations in the Bay Area in California and its headquarters at 8000 S. Federal Way in Boise. Mehrotra, who co-founded SanDisk, has a long history in Silicon Valley.
Micron is well underway on its multibillion-dollar expansion in Boise, and broke ground Jan. 16 on the $100 billion memory-chip manufacturing complex it is planning in New York state.
