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The Salvation Army’s sale of its 1928 Booth Marian Pritchett School property on the North End closed on Sept. 28 for $2 million after a prolonged approval process, the Salvation Army reported. Even under new ownership, the Salvation Army’s School ...

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Idaho state lawmakers decided two years ago to buy the former Hewlett-Packard campus in West Boise and make it a center for state offices, but so far no state agencies have moved in. Construction is underway, however, and the first ...

Woodland Kids in early September leased the final 12,000-square-foot space to fill up the former Kmart building on Fairview Avenue in western Boise. Kmart, which occupied the space since it was built in 1976 at what was then the western ...

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Farmers and gardeners in Kuna will no longer have to commute to Nampa or Caldwell for their D&B Supply needs. D&B Supply plans to build its first Kuna store at Meridian and Deer Flat roads, the city’s most prominent retail ...

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Downtown-worthy office buildings are on the way for the northwest corner of Meridian, where open landscape still dominates. Local developers Tommy Ahlquist and David Turnbull see the eventual extension of Highway 16 south to Interstate 84 and the relentless Meridian ...

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The Treasure Valley’s largest RE/MAX franchise is transitioning from leasing office space in Nampa to owning a newly built office on Idaho Center Boulevard. RE/MAX Executives, based in Eagle, expects to move into the new, $1.1 million, 4,500-square-foot office in ...

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The Whitetail Club private community in McCall has been spending the last couple years diversifying beyond the $2-million custom homes that established the 1,300-acre enclave in 2004. First came cabins, then cottages, and now Whitetail is adding 34 townhomes along ...

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Eighty-mile-an-hour clear sailing should return in the next week or two on Interstate 84 across the Magic Valley. Much of the last year and a half has seen 70 mph limits and, since July, just 65 mph on two-lane, two-way ...

Tagged with: Burley Idaho Transportation Department Interstate 84 Magic Valley Twin Falls

U.S. home construction rebounded in August at the fastest pace in seven months but applications for new building permits plunged, sending mixed signals for an industry that has been struggling with rising lumber costs. Housing starts increased 9.2 percent in ...

La Grande, Oregon,-based Barreto Manufacturing has purchased the 145,000-square-foot former mill site in Horseshoe Bend that Boise Cascade shut down in 1998. The purchase for an undisclosed amount closed Aug. 23. The 40-acre property includes two manufacturing buildings adding up ...

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