Twin Falls Reformed Church to spend $1.4 million on addition
POSTED: Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 11:00 AM PTBY: Blair Koch
The Twin Falls Reformed Church is spending $1.4 million for an additional worship center wing. The 15,600-square-foot, two-story addition will house Sunday school classrooms for children through the fifth grade, allowing all young children to be in the same building as their parents during services. The worship center now has a nursery for youngsters up [...]
Agriculture provides diversity in Twin Falls economy 
POSTED: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 11:00 AM PTBY: Blair Koch
Tags: Chobani Yogurt, Southern Idaho Economic Development Organization, University of Idaho Extension
It’s hard to drive anywhere in south-central Idaho without passing fields of corn and truckloads of freshly harvested russet potatoes. Twin Falls County is one of Idaho’s leading agricultural producers. According to the University of Idaho Extension, the county has 1.2 million acres, and about one-third of that land is used for agriculture. Although nonfarm [...]
Ski resorts look beyond snow season
POSTED: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 10:20 AM PTBY: Blair Koch
Although snow sports continue to be ski resorts’ bread and butter, operations like Pomerelle Mountain Resort near Albion and Magic Mountain near Hansen are diversifying their offerings. From about mid-November through March, Pomerelle’s two chair lifts carry skiers and snowboarders 9,000 feet to the top. In the late spring and summer months, mountain bikers, archers [...]
Kimberly to get new health center this winter
POSTED: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM PTBY: Blair Koch
Early next year Kimberly residents will be able to medical, dental and behavioral health care at a new federally funded Family Health Services clinic. Construction on the 7,000-square-foot community health care clinic begins in October, and the building will be finished in 90 days, said Kimberly Planning and Zoning Director Jenny Nickerson. The clinic will [...]
Twin Falls’ Crossroads Point development stalls
POSTED: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 10:12 AM PTBY: Blair Koch
Tags: Crossroads Point Business Center, Dragt Construction
When a groundbreaking celebration was held for the Heritage Building in June 2008, Dragt Construction had verbal agreements for leasing 60 percent of it. With a hospital planned for next door, professional office space within the 13,500-square-foot, Spanish Colonial building was expected to move quickly. Dragt Construction planned a similar building on its adjacent lot, [...]
Funeral homes adapt to changing market
POSTED: Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 01:21 PM PTBY: Blair Koch
Heidi Heil stands in front of her Serenity Funeral Chapel in Twin Falls. Construction has begun to bring the facility’s two buildings together into one. The remodel will bridge the buildings together with a large, new two-story space and room for larger memorial services on the ground floor. Photo by Blair Koch. Heidi Heil is [...]
Occupancy at Magic Valley mall is highest it’s ever been
POSTED: Monday, September 24, 2012 at 05:21 PM PTBY: Blair Koch
Occupancy at the Magic Valley Mall is more than 99 percent, the highest it has ever been. The only space available is in kiosks, said General Manager Brent White. Last fall the research firm Reis Inc. reported that mall vacancy rates nationally rose to 9.4 percent, the highest recorded rate since the company began tracking levels [...]
Homeless shelter director eyes Twin Falls office building
POSTED: Monday, June 11, 2012 at 02:09 PM PTBY: Blair Koch
A county-owned former medical building in Twin Falls could become a residential drug treatment facility and homeless shelter. The office, formerly known as Doctor’s Park, at 570 Shoup Ave W., is one of several properties that reverted to county ownership after St. Luke’s Health System opened its Magic Valley Medical Center last year. The county [...]
Cassia Regional Technology Center duo heads to Ford HQ for competition
POSTED: Friday, May 18, 2012 at 02:19 PM PTBY: Blair Koch
A pair of graduating high school seniors from southern Idaho is headed to Michigan in June for a national auto skills competition that has already won them thousands of dollars in scholarships. Taylor Grisham and Slade Beck, both 18, won the May 4 Idaho state Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills competition in Boise. They earned a [...]
Commercial development restarting in Twin Falls
POSTED: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 09:26 AM PTBY: Blair Koch
Plans for a 250,000-square-foot retail center on 12 lots in Twin Falls have been dusted off and restarted, a sign of growing confidence in southern Idaho’s economic recovery. The Twin Falls City Council this month approved a zoning map change to allow the development of Canyon Park on the Snake River canyon rim in Twin Falls. [...]
