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The city of Boise has agreed to pay five homeowners $275,000 to settle a lawsuit filed after a hillside started sliding and destroyed the homes. City spokesman Mike Journee tells the Idaho Statesman in a story on April 27 that ...

Love it or hate it, much of the iconic black-and-white tile of the Capitol Terrace will be going away as the building façade undergoes a $2 million renovation this summer. The 1988 building will be rebranded Main + Marketplace. In ...

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Combine a longtime shortage of skilled workers with advancements in robotics technology, and construction firms may be poised to change how they do business altogether. Since the end of World War II, construction has consistently proved to be one of ...

The design process for a new Highlands Elementary School on Bogus Basin Road will continue through August with construction scheduled to start in June 2019. The new school is expected to open in August 2020. The Boise School District on ...

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Smoky Mountain Pizzeria Grill is the newest popular brand to commit to rapidly growing Kuna, a city just now passing 20,000 residents and planning for 30,000. Smoky Mountain plans to build a pizza shop next to the Merrell Towne Center ...

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Eighth Street is getting a spring makeover before the Capital City Development Corp. hands over ownership of its two-block stretch of the downtown event street to the city of Boise. CCDC is focusing on the furnishings area between the sidewalks ...

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International architect Moshe Safdie designs on the grandest scale: Raffles City in Chongqing, China; Marina Bay Sands in Singapore; and dozens more. Architectural Digest spotlighted 11 iconic Moshe Safdie buildings in 2016. And now the Somerville, Massachusetts-based Safdie Architects is ...

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U.S. officials have approved two high-voltage transmission line routes in southwestern Idaho aimed at modernizing and improving reliability of the Pacific Northwest’s energy grid. The U.S. Department of the Interior’s approval is for the two final segments of the Gateway ...

Architects, general contractors and developers still steeped in traditional methods turn to Boise’s Prefab Logic for guidance in building multi-story modular structures such as hotels, apartments and offices. Prefab Logic is one of only about a half dozen companies in ...

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The market-rate, 81-unit Fifth and Idaho Apartments in downtown Boise are on schedule to open about October, the developer said. Construction at Fifth and Idaho streets started in late June and the work is now in the structural framing stage, ...

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