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Though prices of construction materials such as steel, lumber and concrete have been trending upward, that changed recently. But those price drops could be only temporary, industry experts say. An analysis of prices carried out by the Associated Builders and ...

Three years in the works under two successive development groups, the 192-unit Skyline Apartments started construction in late July on Federal Way in front of the Overland Post Office. Skyline Apartments upon completion in October 2019 will sit at the ...

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Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra is preparing to pitch a $21 million school safety initiative — Keep Idaho Students Safe, or KISS — to the Legislature in January. The Idaho Press-Tribune reported the initiative would, among other things, ...

Jack Harty has a mixed message for clients who approach him about building revenue-generating properties. Though interest rates have been creeping up, the principal of Harty Mortgage Advisors in Boise assures borrowers that rates “are still at a virtually 40-year ...

A 225,000-square-foot expansion at The Village at Meridian is in the planning and design stages with a potential construction start in the second or third quarter 2019, General Manager Hugh Crawford said. The expansion was first announced in May 2016, ...

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Caldwell may get a new hotel  on the site where the Saratoga Hotel burned down in 1990. The Gardner Company’s Boise office is negotiating to build a hotel and separate retail space, plus office or residential, on 1.4 acres owned ...

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Ammon has installed its city-owned fiber optic system in the first 300 homes in this eastern Idaho city. Since 2011, Ammon has brought municipal fiber optic cable to nearly all city facilities. City-owned fiber optic also serves dozens of businesses ...

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The Museum of Idaho became a downtown Idaho Falls showpiece in 2003 when an expansive, rounded glass façade tied together the 1916 Carnegie Library and the similarly aged Masonic Lodge nearby. For the past 15 years, though, the museum’s interior ...

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Home Depot handily beat expectations during the second quarter, bouncing back from a slow start to the year when terrible weather cooled construction projects. The world’s biggest home improvement retailer boosted its full-year profit and revenue forecasts August 14. Higher ...

Idaho Falls Zoo Director David Pennock stands inside the large, open Hamilton Building at the neighboring fairgrounds and paints an invisible picture with his hands. “Imagine a pride of lions in here,” Pennock said, “You’d be able to view them ...

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