‘Once in a lifetime’ site for future Boise development. Corey Barton houses. Coming near you

The latest proposed developments, housing and other construction projects, and new businesses around Idaho’s Treasure Valley:

Boise

Claire Smarda of Breckon Land Design has filed a request for a permit to construct 33 single-family town houses at 6776 E. Warm Springs Ave., east of the Boise River Greenbelt.

The Woven Subdivision would be built on 3.2 acres, according to the application.

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Developers have taken strong interest in the former Idaho Transportation Department headquarters campus on State Street west of downtown Boise.

The state has received nine offers for the property at 3311 W. State, the Idaho Business Review reports.

“This once-in-a-lifetime offering is the largest developable parcel in Boise’s downtown, west or north end markets — fronting bustling State Street/Hwy 44 and directly on the shoreline of the gleaming waters of Esther Simplot Pond,” wrote TOK Commercial, the listing agency, in a May invitation for offers.

The department moved in 2022 to the former Hewlett Packard campus 11311 W. Chinden Blvd. that the state bought in 2018.

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A new skate park opened this month at Molenaar Park in Southwest Boise.

The 15,000 square-foot park at 2815 S. Maple Grove Road includes features for beginner-through-advanced skaters. It has a “mini bowl, several banks, handrails and ledges, as well as transitional terrain,” according to the city’s website.

The park was designed by Grindline Skateparks Inc. in partnership with the Boise Skateboard Association. The same designers also designed Rhodes Skate Park downtown, underneath the Interstate 184 Connector.

A $1 million donation from the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation allowed the skate park to be built sooner than expected, according to the city’s website.

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Eagle

The Eagle City Council has approved a proposal by Challenger Development Inc. to build a 400-house subdivision.

The Cascade Springs Subdivision is set to be built on 139 acres of farmland at 755 and 833 N. Palmer Lane. The site on the west side of Palmer just south of its intersection with West Nordic Drive, about half a mile north of West State Street (Idaho 44) and half a mile east of the Emmett Highway (Idaho 16).

Challenger’s president is Corey Barton, the owner of Corey Barton Homes Inc., Idaho’s largest homebuilder.

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Meridian

Starbucks wants to build a new store at the corner of Eagle and Victory roads.

The coffee shop would be located at 3232 E. Victory Road. Starbucks already has 11 shops in Meridian, including some that are inside grocery stores like Albertsons and Fred Meyer, according to its store locater.

The building permit was first reported by BuildZoom.

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The Cleaning Authority, a house cleaning service in Boise, wants to construct a 3,927-square-foot commercial building between Interstate 84 and East Overland Road near Cinemark Majestic Cinemas.

The site at 2240 E. Cinema Drive would have 66 parking spots, according to a permit filing.

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Caldwell

Full Circle Health, a community health center with locations in Boise, Meridian and Nampa, opened a new family medicine clinic across the street from West Valley Medical Center.

The new clinic is located at at 315 E. Elm St. on the second floor of the Family Medicine Center building, according to a news release.

Full Circle was formerly the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho.

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Roderick Enterprises plans to build a $2.5 million, single-story, 41,000-square-foot concrete warehouse and office building at 1509 Aviation Way. BuildZoom first reported the building permit.

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Around Idaho

Terry Reilly Health Services is opening a new clinic in Homedale offering medical, dental, behavioral health and pharmacy services.

The clinic, at 108 E. Idaho Ave., will fill a growing need in the community, the health center said in a news release. Homedale’s population has grown from about 2,000 people when Terry Reilly Health Services opened its first clinic in 1981 to about 3,000 today, it said.

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Notable

2022 brought a slowdown in office development in the Boise area, thanks to rising interest rates, high construction costs, and economic uncertainty as inflation rose. But development has picked up again this year, says TOK, a Boise commercial real estate agency.

The amount of completed, newly constructed office space has already surpassed 2022’s total, with 391,000 square feet delivered by builders, TOK said in its July market update.

More than 590,000 additional square feet is under construction, with most set to be finished by the end of the year.

The coming completions include St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center’s long-delayed ambulatory care hospital, TOK said. The four-story, 400,000-square-foot hospital is at 2525 W. Fairview Ave., west of downtown.

St. Luke’s first planned the building to become an orthopedic hospital and later changed its focus to ambulatory care. A new parking garage accompanies it.

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New industrial space is coming fast to the Treasure Valley too — at a record pace, with 2 million square feet delivered already this year in the Boise area and 1.8 million more expected by year’s end, TOK said.

Most of it has been built on speculation, without signed tenants. Speculative new business parks include the 440,000-square-foot Fuller84 Business Park and the 345,000-square-foot Madison Logistics Center, both in Nampa.

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After a dramatic runup, the price of commercial land in Ada County plunged in the second quarter, reports Colliers, the commercial real estate agency.

The average price per acre listed for sale fell to $678,936, Colliers said in its latest land report. That’s down from a peak of $904,322 in the first quarter. The price was a little as $488,471 in the third quarter of 2021.

In Canyon County, the runup continued, with the average price $491,142, up from $467,923 in the previous quarter and $348,586 in the third quarter of 2021.

Commercial land includes retail, office and industrial lots and land that is subdivided, zoned or expected to be zoned in the future for residential development.

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Saint Alphonsus Health System unveiled COVID-19 memorial gardens at its hospitals in Boise, Nampa, Ontario and Baker City.

The gardens commemorate those who died from COVID-19 and honor the health care workers who tended to them. Saint Alphonsus colleagues came up with the idea, and the Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center Foundation funded it, according to a news release.

The memorials are inspired by the Emily Dickinson poem The Gentian Weaves Her Fringes and were designed to give staff hope and a place for reflection.

“The pandemic had such a profound impact on our communities and on health care that we felt it important to create lasting memorials at each of our hospital campuses to honor lives saved and lost and dedicated Saint Alphonsus colleagues who cared for them and the families that were affected by this tragic time in our lifetime,” Odette Bolano, president and CEO of the health system, said in the release.

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