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A 90-ton crane sits just outside the concrete footprint of what will be the Idaho Central Credit Union Arena on the University of Idaho Moscow campus. On May 29, it swung its massive arm above the soon-to-be basketball court to set the first 35-foot-tall wood column, culminating nearly ...

After closing its Boise branches inside Fred Meyer grocery stores in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus, JPMorgan Chase Bank is now building a new branch — across the street from a Fred Meyer grocery store in which one of those branches ...

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Ada County plans to gut and renovate its zoning ordinances. This little news gem was buried deep inside a May 29 news release from the county’s planning and development department on a different but related matter. An Ada County news ...

The city of Kuna’s economic development committee is in the beginning stages of a “retail village” to let small businesses get off the ground without the expense of a storefront. “While we have a number of businesses in our downtown, ...

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A similarly named bank in the same geographic region turned out to be just too big a hill to climb for Alpine State Bank. Instead, the new bank, the first in Idaho in some years, will be known as Bright ...

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Ball Ventures Ahlquist and Idaho Central Credit Union liked working together on ICCU’s Eagle View Landing building so much that they decided to do it again, this time in Boise. The two companies are partnering to construct a 16-story mixed-use ...

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The coronavirus pandemic has caused more than one out of four contractors to halt or delay work on current projects, according to a survey by the Associated General Contractors of America. The survey results show how quickly market conditions have ...

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A $150,000 grant from the Sunderland Foundation will help support the second phase of renovations at Idaho State University’s health campus in Meridian. ISU started a $2.3 million renovation at the Sam and Aline Skaggs Health Science Center in Meridian ...

May marked the announcement of first-quarter earnings for many of the nation’s retailers, which has uncovered a lot of the damage done by shutting down non-essential commerce. Post-pandemic bankruptcy filings to date include a number of well-known brands: Hertz, J. ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home building plunged in April to the lowest level in five years, taken down by the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that ground breakings plummeted 30.2% last month to a ...

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