Idaho Business Review IBR

This is the golden age for retail in Idaho, whether that’s a chain store or an independent, downtown or in a mall. National and regional retailers continue to discover the Treasure Valley, local merchants are thriving, downtowns are being energized ...

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Toledo, Ohio-based Marco’s Pizza took its first bite in Idaho in January with a shop in northwest Meridian at Ten Mile and McMillan roads. Now, the seventh largest U.S. pizza chain is looking for franchisees to add five more Marco’s ...

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Here’s something you don’t see every day: a new proposed affordable housing apartment complex, let alone an attempt to build affordable housing without federal low-income housing tax credits or other incentives. Wendy Klahr wants to build a 17-unit, three-story apartment ...

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Shoshone Fire Protection District No. 1 will build a new headquarters fire station in Osburn with a $1.9 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development. Osburn is 43 miles east of Coeur d’Alene on Interstate 90. The ...

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Business parks mean business. Ten Mile Crossing’s first year in Meridian played out in just that manner with the openings of benefits administrator AmeriBen and human capital management company Paylocity. Ten Mile Crossing’s developer, Tommy Ahlquist, however, has never totally ...

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The Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing by Sears Holdings Corp. on Oct. 15 includes the closure of the Sears store at the Boise Towne Square mall. The two remaining Kmarts in Idaho in Twin Falls and Lewiston were not on ...

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Public charter school Gem Prep Pocatello will fill the former Sears space at the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck that has been vacant for four years. Gem Prep is in a lease-to-own arrangement with Building Hope, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit ...

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Boise-based anti-fraud technology company Kount could have easily relocated into some anonymous office building in some anonymous business park in the suburbs. That would not have suited CEO Brad Wiskirchen. He wanted a new space that matched the company’s culture, ...

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The Boise nonprofit that funds the operations of new charter schools has received a $17.1 million federal grant that could fund up to 19 new and expanding charter schools that focus on disadvantaged and rural students. The amount of the ...

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Median home prices in Ada County tumbled $15,410 from August to September to $318,990, while Canyon County median home prices at $229,900 came within $45 of the all-time high in July, according to Intermountain Multiple Listing Service statistics. The September ...

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