Idaho technology companies aren’t the only ones looking to Silicon Valley for inspiration. Two years ago, a team of leaders from the Idaho Youth Ranch, which helps pay for its social services programs through revenues from its two dozen second-hand ...
Read More »Intermountain Gas headquarters: Boise’s mid-century masterpiece
No site in Idaho has been as lauded for architectural design and significance as the Intermountain Gas headquarters complex in Boise, completed in 1966 on what was then the western edge of the city. The four-building complex, designed by architect ...
Read More »A word with Lee Gientke about real estate capital 
Lee Gientke is the managing partner at Pontifex Capital, a Boise firm that develops and manages real estate and serves as a real estate-focused private equity firm. Geintke was a history major at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where ...
Read More »A word with Eric Davis of Retail West 
Commercial real estate developer Eric Davis grew up near Cleveland and studied construction technology and business at Ferris State University in Michigan. He spent six months working as an engineer in a power plant before moving in 1978 to Homart, ...
Read More »A word with Ryan Stoa of Concordia University Law School 
Ryan Stoa is a lawyer who teaches property law, administrative law, natural resources law and environmental law at Concordia University Law School in Boise. Stoa grew up in Minnesota, spending summers with his mother’s family in France, before studying international ...
Read More »A word with Doug Covey, state director of Idaho SBDC 
Doug Covey became the director of the Idaho Small Business Development Center in July after working as southwest regional director of the organization for three years. Covey is an Arizona native who earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in natural resource ...
Read More »Nonprofit hopes new program will add 500 nursing assistants to Idaho workforce
Certified nursing assistants, the workers who help elderly and disabled patients in long-term care with their daily routines, face an emotionally and physically demanding job with pay that hovers at $8 to $15 an hour. These workers are in short ...
Read More »This is what progress looks like
When I started working at IBR in 2010, there were so many empty parking spaces in BoDo that you could have parked a semitruck and trailer parallel to the sidewalk on Broad Street at midday. Back then, positive business stories ...
Read More »A word with Diane Bevan, first CEO of the Idaho Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Diane Bevan is the first full-time CEO of the 11-year-old Idaho Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Nampa-based networking organization. The chamber has 125 members and a 14-member board; Bevans is its only employee. Bevans, a native of Nowata, Oklahoma, was ...
Read More »Albertsons reports year-over-year financial improvement
The Boise-based Albertsons Companies, Inc. on July 16 reported improved results for its fiscal first quarter. Albertsons posted a quarterly loss of $17.7 million for the 16 weeks ended June 16, compared with a loss of $204.9 million a year ...
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