A controversial Boise apartment complex. An indoor pickleball court. Coming near you
The latest proposed developments, housing and other construction projects, and new businesses around Idaho’s Treasure Valley:
Meridian
Jim Conger wants to build 62 single-family homes and one apartment building on 21 acres near Franklin and Black Cat Roads.
The apartment building would have 216 units, according to the application. The development, called Newkirk Neighborhood would be located at 4250 W. Franklin Road.
“Newkirk will provide much needed housing options for future residents who are looking for a centrally located neighborhood that is highly amenitized,” Conger said in the application.
The development would have a one-acre park and over a mile of pathways.
The Meridian City Council is scheduled to hear the proposal at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 11, at City Hall.
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Centurion Engineers submitted its final plans for a new subdivision near the southeast corner of Meridian Road and Chinden Boulevard.
The Friendship Subdivision would include 38 houses at 6168 N. Elk Ranch Lane. The homes would be built on 10 acres. Mike Homan, the owner of Boise-based Homan Land Development, originally applied to build 41 houses in the subdivision.
The Meridian City Council is scheduled to hear the proposal at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, at City Hall.
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The Hickory Warehouse in Meridian, home to an indoor electric go-kart track, looks to modify its hours of operation.
The warehouse requested to change its hours to 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. seven days a week and to allow additional recreational use on the property, specifically for an indoor pickleball court, according to a conditional use permit filed with the city.
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Mandie Brozo, of CSHQA, an architecture, engineering and design firm, applied to build an Orchard Park Market at 1316 W. Orchard Park Drive. The 3,800-square-foot building would house a restaurant, according to a permit filing.
Boise
Glenn Walker with ADP Architects has filed a request for a permit for Adler Industrial to occupy a new 84,000-square-foot facility at 2700 S. Beverly St., located east of Cole Road and north of West Victory Road.
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Connie St. George with GGLO has filed a request for a permit for the construction of a new five-story apartment building at 3922 W. State St., north of Veterans Memorial Parkway.
The 132,534-square-foot multi-family project at State and Arthur would include “102 affordable units, 28,477 square feet of parking garage and 2,602 square feet of vanilla shell space for future tenant,” according to the application.
Pacific West Communities, Inc., of Eagle, is the developer.
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Ethan Heiner with Studio 333 has filed a request for a permit for the construction of a new 2,968-square-foot America First Credit Union Branch at 1625 N. Steelwood Ave., west of North Five Mile Road and north of West Fairvirew Avenue.
The facility would include “self-service and staffed teller space, lobby space, offices, restrooms, break room, storage and three-lane remote drive-thru,” according to the application.
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Macy Lui with The Land Group, Inc. has filed a request for permit on the behalf of AMH Development LLC for the Monitor Way Subdivision, 2484 S. Monitor Way, north of West Victory Road and east of South Five Mile Road.
The project would include 48 residential single family homes and five common lots for a total of 53 lots/units, according to the final plat application.
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The Boise City Council voted to approve a 130-unit apartment building on Ash Street, after choosing to reconsider the project last month when funds for some affordability provisions were called into question.
After some debate, the council voted to uphold its initial decision from February, with an added condition of a new sidewalk easement to assist with infrastructure improvements downtown on 11th Street.
The council previously voted to approve the building, at 672 S. Ash St., in February, with the understanding that the city’s urban renewal agency, the Capital City Development Corp., would provide funds to ensure that 13 units would be affordable.
The affordable units would be for households making less than 100% of the area median income, which in Boise is $70,026 for a two-person household.
At the site, there are now 16 “naturally occurring” affordable apartments, meaning the owners charge less than market rates but are not required to be affordable.
The council debated whether to add some affordability provisions, and city planning staff members suggested that they designate two more units as affordable at a lower threshold: 60% of area median income.
A current tenant at the site testified that the designated-affordable units would be allowed to charge about $400 more in rent than he was now paying for a 2-bedroom apartment.
The developer, Dean Papé of deChase Miksis, made it clear at the hearing that the owner was not interested in additional affordable units, and, if imposed, would instead delay the development until after the city’s zoning code rewrite, which would likely then allow the proposal to be built without any affordability requirements. The zoning rewrite is expected to be taken up by the council later this year.
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An apartment complex in Northwest Boise can move forward as part of a larger subdivision that was approved in 2019.
Called Prominence subdivision, the project located at 8133 N. Bogart Lane was approved in 2019 to include more than 200 units that are a mix of single-family homes, town homes and apartments. The apartments were required to come back for approval at a later date because of concerns the council had about fire risk in the area, though the other parts of the subdivision have not yet been built either, according to city planning staff.
The Northwest Neighborhood Association has vehemently opposed the subdivision, which is located near one of the more rural parts of Boise that was annexed less than a decade ago. The neighborhood association has taken the issue to the Supreme Court, which has not yet issued a ruling.
At an appeal hearing on Tuesday, Richard Llewellyn, the president of the neighborhood association, argued that the developers had so far failed to comply with their written plans for a pathway along an adjacent canal, called the Spoil Banks Canal.
Jeff Bower, a lawyer for the developer, Trilogy Development, disagreed, noting that the pathway has been required all along as part of the project and is expected to be built this year.
Multiple neighbors testified about concerns for wildlife that access the canal and their wish to retain access to a walking path.
Council Member Jimmy Hallyburton said that the city needs to focus more resources on involving the public in envisioning the expansion of pathways around the city, which the Spoil Banks Canal is part of.
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El Korah Shriners leased an 807-square-foot office space at 1755 N. Westgate Drive, according to a news release from Colliers Idaho.
Caldwell
Bob Unger, of Meadowdale Investments LLC, wants to build 39 town houses near the corner of Madison Street and Illinois Avenue.
The town houses would be in nine four-plex buildings and one tri-plex building on 4.5 acres.
The Caldwell City Council is scheduled to discuss the application in a council meeting this month.
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Edward D. Jones & Co., a financial services firm headquartered in Missouri, leased a 1,208-square-foot office space at 310 Cleveland Blvd., according to a news release from Colliers Idaho.
Nampa
Advanced Prosthetics & Orthotics, a private health care organization, leased a 3,492-square-foot industrial space at 16071 N. Franklin Blvd., according to a news release from Colliers Idaho.
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IPV Fire & Mechanical, a Washington-based company, leased an 8,000-square-foot industrial space at 8840 Grizzly Lane, Colliers Idaho reported.
Garden City
North Glenwood St. Warehouse bought a 20,886-square-foot industrial space at 5307 N. Glenwood St., according to a news release from Colliers Idaho.
