GBAD district gets two new board members
POSTED: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 02:29 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: convention center, election, Greater Boise Auditorium District
The Greater Boise Auditorium District board has two new members after the May 21 election, with firefighter Jim Walker and business consultant Steve Berch taking over the seats held by Rob Perez and Stephanie Astorquia, according to Ada County’s unofficial results. Peter Oliver also won with a slim 19-vote lead after all precincts had reported [...]
Much is at stake in GBAD board election 
POSTED: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 01:40 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: convention center, election, Greater Boise Auditorium District
The polls open for the Greater Boise Auditorium District May 21, giving voters the chance to put in their two cents about how the district should spend an estimated $45 million. The district, a Legislature-created entity that manages revenues from a 5 percent tax on hotel rooms in much of the Boise Metro area, is [...]
GBAD candidates reveal positions on convention center expansion
POSTED: Friday, May 10, 2013 at 04:06 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: Boise Hawks, convention center, election, Expansion, Greater Boise Auditorium District
Candidates for the Greater Boise Auditorium district aired their sentiments on the future of the organization in their first public forum May 9, giving their impressions of how to spend an estimated $40 million available to the district. Seven candidates appeared before a crowd at the event, sponsored by the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce. [...]
GBAD names Peter Oliver as new board member
POSTED: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 04:56 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: Boise Hawks, Greater Boise Auditorium District, Peter Oliver, Rob Perez, Thornton Oliver Keller
The Greater Boise Auditorium District board chose real estate broker and developer Peter Oliver as its newest member Jan. 15. Oliver, a founding member of Thornton Oliver Keller, the largest commercial real estate broker in the Treasure Valley, will serve on the board until elections can be held in May. Oliver will seek election to [...]
GBAD backs off convention center plans, has $30 million it can spend on Boise
POSTED: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 03:23 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: baseball stadium, Boise Hawks, City of Boise, convention center, Greater Boise Auditorium District, JUMP project
The Greater Boise Auditorium District board has switched gears after more than a decade of trying to develop a new convention center, voting last month to open up its nearly $30 million in available funds to an array of possible projects. The board has $11 million in available cash for a capital project and bonding [...]
Panel rejects Dunkley Music building as a potential convention center site
POSTED: Monday, March 19, 2012 at 03:25 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: Boise Centre, convention center, Dunkley Music, Greater Boise Auditorium District
A proposed new Boise convention center won’t be located on a two-block stretch along Capitol Boulevard after Greater Boise Auditorium District board members excluded the site in a March 19 meeting. Board members voted unanimously to scrap the site, which would have cost nearly $10 million to acquire, according to a feasibility study commissioned by [...]
Perez set to replace Fitzgerald on auditorium district board
POSTED: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 10:13 AM PTBY: Brad Iverson-Long
Tags: Boise Centre, Elliot Werk, Greater Boise Auditorium District, hotels, Hy Kloc, Idaho Legislature, Judy Peavey-Derr, Mike Fitzgerald, Rob Perez, taxes, Western Capital Bank
Restaurateur Mike Fitzgerald is resigning from the Greater Boise Auditorium District (GBAD), since work has taken him to eastern Idaho. On March 19, the board is set to nominate Rob Perez, the president and CEO of Western Capital Bank in Boise, to serve out Fitzgerald’s term, which runs through mid-2013. “If I’m nominated, then I [...]
Tough road for proposed Hawks stadium
POSTED: Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 12:45 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: Better Boise Coalition, Boise Hawks, Capital City Development Corp., Greater Boise Auditorium District, Multi-Use Stadium
Supporters of a potential new Hawks stadium are now calling for progress by this summer, or the people of Boise could face consequences. With the promise of losing the Cubs franchise and, if any hope of a new facility fades away, eventually losing baseball altogether, it’s time to look into the strategy laid out on Feb. [...]
What was that? GBAD calls on pros to record meetings
POSTED: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 01:30 PM PTBY: Jay Patrick
Tags: BCVB, GBAD, Greater Boise Auditorium District
Anyone who has been to a meeting of the board of the Greater Boise Auditorium District lately knows the proceedings are convoluted, cacophonous affairs, with multiple lengthy motions and amendments. All sorts of back-and-forth goes on, and the body doesn’t always adhere to proper rules of order. Apparently it has all become a bit too [...]
Boise’s uncertain convention biz future could firm up with May 17 GBAD election
POSTED: Friday, May 13, 2011 at 07:14 AM PTBY: Jay Patrick
Tags: Greater Boise Auditorium District
Uncivil. Ugly. Goofy. Embarrassing. Sad. Those are among words some candidates for the Greater Boise Auditorium District Board use when discussing the group’s operation over the last couple years, including the battle over cutting funding for the Boise Convention and Visitors Bureau. The election for two seats on the five-member board, which oversees Boise Centre and [...]
