Boise commercial real estate listings rarely get better than this: downtown retail and office space for lease, two blocks from the Capitol with an unobstructed view of the statehouse dome. The sweet spot is that there is parking. The catch is ...
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Federal Reserve Bank to sell Idaho bond holdings 
Now that financial markets have mostly recovered from the economic disruption caused by COVID-19, the Federal Reserve Bank announced on June 2 that it will now sell its stash of corporate bonds in timed increments through the rest of 2021. ...
Read More »Daher’s Kodiak airplane takes flight in Sandpoint 
The Daher presentation at this year’s I-90 Corridor Aerospace Conference really took off to make the point that there’s a great short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft being manufactured in Sandpoint. The single-engine Kodiak 100 can seat up to 10, ...
Read More »Which Idaho companies were named to the Fortune 500? 
The king of all business rankings, the venerable Fortune 500 list, was updated for 2021 on June 2. Three Idaho companies made the list: Albertsons, Boise Cascade and Micron Technology Inc. This is the 67th year that Fortune has issued ...
Read More »Voith Hydro hired for contentious Cat Creek project 
The controversial Cat Creek Energy and Water LLC (CCEW) hydroelectric project in Elmore County took a step forward recently while its opponents continue to try to push it several steps back. On May 25, the appeal of the lawsuit aimed to ...
Read More »Anderson Ranch Dam expansion project takes next steps 
Getting federal funding for a dam project isn’t usually viewed as a problem, unless that money needs to be spent before a project is ready to roll. This is what happened with the Anderson Ranch Dam expansion after Congress allocated ...
Read More »Public survey asks, ‘What should we do with Expo Idaho?’ 
Ada County wants to know what the public thinks about the fate of the Expo Idaho site. To do that, the county commissioners have posted a new survey on the splash page of the county’s website. The survey asks a ...
Read More »COVID-19 causes liquid waste cleanup delays at INL 
COVID-19 introduced months of delay for the treatment of stored liquid wastes left over from processing spent nuclear fuels at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The delay was discussed at the most recent meeting of the Leadership in Nuclear Energy ...
Read More »Boardwalk riverfront mixed-use project coming to Garden City 
The Boardwalk, a riverfront luxury apartment and retail project, is coming to the greenbelt in Garden City. The project developer, Vida Properties of Boise, broke ground today, with Garden City Mayor John Evans being one of the shovel-wielders. “This is ...
Read More »Kootenai County wake law repeal makes waves 
In a 2-1 vote, the Kootenai County Commissioners repealed the year-old 150-foot excessive wake rule for three waterways on May 24. In a packed room, over 80 citizens attended a public hearing on the fate of Kootenai resolution 2020-38, while ...
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