300 apartments coming for one of Boise’s last big open lots on the Bench
AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom.
- Roundhouse filed for permits to build 15 apartment buildings on 18 acres at 2521 W.
- Ten 24-unit and five 12-unit three-story buildings are planned around the property.
- Plans include a 9,000-square-foot clubhouse and a network of paths to public streets.
Some 300 apartments are coming to the one of the last large lots within the city of Boise — one piece of plans that could bring thousands of people to an open triangle of land in the Vista neighborhood of the Bench.
Boise developer Roundhouse recently filed for a batch of building permits to construct 15 apartment buildings across 18 acres between Victory Road and the New York Canal, marking the latest move to build up a remnant chunk of agricultural Boise at 2521 W. Victory Road.
The Victory would sit adjacent to the proposed 44-acre Vista Point project, which envisions 800 units on another field immediately to the east.
Roundhouse aims to break ground on construction this fall, managing director Patrick Boel told the Idaho Statesman in an email.
The final design arrays 10, 24-unit buildings and five, 12-unit buildings around the property in what Boel described as a “garden style” complex. Each three-story structure includes a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom market-rate apartments, according to the plan.
At the core, Roundhouse will build a 9,000-square-foot clubhouse and a network of paths linking up with public streets and sidewalks, according to Bozeman, Montana, architect Doug Minarik, whose firm worked on the site design.
“This allows for a porosity that is part of, rather than distinct from, adjacent neighborhoods and future developments,” Minarik wrote of the site plan in his application to the city.
One such development is Vista Point. City officials approved an agreement underpinning the massive plan in 2022, around the same time that Victory — then pitched in a different form as Seasons on the Bench — took shape on farmland next door.
For now, both addresses are still open fields.
Welltower, the Ohio developer behind Vista Point, is “actively working” through its own development process, Boel told the Statesman in March. The property at 2017 W. Victory Road is owned by a holding company that shares an address with Welltower’s Toledo headquarters, according to state and county records.
Roundhouse’s plan aims to align streets with future development to the east, Minarik shared in a February presentation to Boise’s Design Review Commission.
Boel did not immediately respond to questions from the Statesman about rents or construction time.