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This is the second in a four-part series on downtown surface parking lots. Boise started going vertical in 1900 with the Idanha Hotel and a string of others for the next 15 years, but six stories was the ceiling at ...

This is the first in a four-part series on downtown parking lots. Downtown Boise is one big surface parking lot. A map of surface parking lots shows downtown awash in car-bedecked asphalt and dirt. If you mass all the surface ...

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Woodgrain Millwork, Fruitland’s largest private employer, has acquired two Boise Cascade sawmills and a particleboard facility in eastern Oregon. Woodgrain took over operations Nov. 5 of the Boise Cascade sawmills in Pilot Rock and La Grande and the particleboard operations ...

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The five-year journey to a “new” St. Luke’s McCall Medical Center awaits McCall city approval of design documents that St. Luke’s Health System submitted Oct. 23. Construction is anticipated to start in spring or early summer on a two-story, 50,000-square-foot ...

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The fire came days after ski season closed in April at Sun Valley Resort. Fire, water and smoke extensively damaged the resort’s Warm Springs Lodge at the base of Bald Mountain. The fire – still of unknown cause – started ...

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BVR Burgers leased the former Gyro Shack space at 2817 W. Overland Road in Boise. Bob Mitchell, CSM, and Holly Chetwood, CCIM, of Thornton Oliver Keller Commercial Real Estate facilitated this transaction. Northwest Fire & Security leased 2,260 square feet ...

A Berkshire Hathaway entity has assembled long-term, fixed rate financing to pay off construction costs of two hotels in downtown Boise that are roughly a year old. Berkadia, a joint venture of Berkshire Hathaway and Jefferies Financial Group, on Oct. ...

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Before you can build, you need a road. Olympus Drive now reaches north into the ambitious Northgate development that proposes as many as 10,000 new homes and a 1-million-square-foot technology park along with an array of retail and office opportunities ...

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By the end of the year, Boise-based Episciences Inc. will be able to triple production of its skin care products with the opening of a new manufacturing center across the street from its current property on Emerald Street. Episciences is ...

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For the second time, the American Theatre Wing has awarded a $10,000 National Theatre Company Grant to Boise Contemporary Theater, the area’s year-round professional regional theater company. The American Theatre Wing is the same organization behind the Tony Awards for ...

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