After a five-year limbo, plans revive for apartments near Boise Towne Square
A California developer is reviving housing plans on a vacant lot next to the Boise Towne Square mall — this time with close to 100 more apartments.
Temecula-based Kal Pacific and Associates filed an application with the city of Boise to build 224 apartments at 580 N. Cole Road and 7315 W. Denton St., doubling down on developing a site that has seen plans stall since at least 2021.
The application comes just over a year after Kal Pacific defaulted on those two lots, as well as a third on Denton Street, the Idaho Statesman reported in June 2025.
Now, Kal Pacific and principal Don Veasey are coming back to Boise with a six-story concept with five floors of apartments atop ground-floor commercial space and basement parking, according to documents filed with the city.
The new design tears up a 2021 development agreement that called for a five-story structure with 136 apartments, the Statesman reported at the time. Boise’s updated zoning code now allows for greater density and taller buildings in the area, Grant Seaman of HURAA Architects said in the application to the city, rendering the old deal obsolete. Kal Pacific’s application would take advantage of the city’s MX-3 code, which allows buildings up to 70 feet with no density restrictions, according to the application.
The new design envisions 100 studios, 71 one-bedroom, 28 two-bedroom and 25 three-bedroom apartments — adding “much needed housing units to the Boise Towne Square area,” Seaman wrote. Seaman did not return a call and email for more information on the plan, or on possible rents.
“The project strengthens the emerging urban framework of the Boise Towne Center area by delivering housing density, resident amenity and recreation space, off-street parking, and retail uses,” he wrote.
The layout, which doglegs around the Mattress Firm store on Cole Road, also includes 254 parking spaces.
California developer revives second project
The Cole Denton apartment block is the second stalled project that Kal Pacific’s Don Veasey is trying to reboot in Boise.
In December, Seaman filed an application on behalf of Urban Capital Partners of Murrieta, California, filed an application Friday to build 185 apartments at 2850 W. Fletcher St. between Fairview Avenue and the I-184 Connector west of the Boise River. It’s the same site where Kal Pacific tried to build a three-building campus with 358 units and an office tower in 2021. And, Seaman told the Statesman late last year, it’s the same development group; Veasey set up a new corporation to spearhead the scaled-back project, Seaman said.
The original 27th & Fairview Apartments never broke ground. In November 2024, the commission denied Kal Pacific’s request for an extension, with commissioners saying they wanted a “fresh set of eyes” on the project, since it had taken so long to progress, the Statesman reported.
That project is still working through Boise’s planning process.