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Boise Towne Square mall has reduced its hours in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, with a number of stores shuttering temporarily to slow the spread of the outbreak. The mall’s management posted a message online earlier this week indicating that the ...

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As Idaho Business Review works around the clock to keep our business community informed on the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, we are also committed to preserving the health and safety of our state at large.  In light of ...

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HAYDEN — Frontier Communications, the financially troubled telecommunications company, is selling its Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington operations in a $1.35 billion transaction to Northwest Fiber, which will operate the company as Ziply Fiber. The company’s Idaho office will be based ...

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With COVID-19 cases continuing to rise each day, realtors in hard-hit states are adjusting their practices to slow the spread of the illness. By the second week of March, nearly one in four home sellers nationwide had reported that they ...

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Marking the end of a decade-long effort, construction crews placed the last steel beam for the office building at 11th & Idaho during a topping-off ceremony on March 17. The event was attended by employees of general contractor ESI Construction, frame assembler ...

Over the weekend, the Federal Reserve Bank took bold action in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, including cutting interest rates to 0% — a move a number of regional finance experts said should help the economy. “The actions by the FRB will benefit ...

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Affordable housing innovator indieDwell Holdings Inc. has a new CEO. The company announced on March 10 that Christina Ortiz-Bluth will take over as CEO from co-founder Scott Flynn who will transition to a new role, Chief Impact Officer. Prior to ...

Milk consumption has dropped throughout the country and many family dairy farms have gone out of business. Yet Reed’s Dairy is expanding. Reed’s Dairy is a family-owned business located on U.S. Highway 20 next to the Idaho Falls airport. The company ...

A Boise investment fund is telling startups how to fail, in hopes that they will succeed. Sage Growth Capital, a revenue-based fund paid back from revenues of the companies it invests in, held a seminar, Funding Fails, at Trailhead on ...

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Meridian has a new fire station to serve the southern portion of the city. The City of Meridian held a ceremonial uncoupling of a fire hose on March 12 to mark the grand opening of their new fire station No. ...