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Payette City leaders say they’re optimistic about a plan to build their community’s first chain hotel, after a favorable feasibility study. Fifteen miles to the north, officials in Weiser are also encouraged by the findings of the Payette study, believing ...

Over the next two years, Power County Hospital will shed its 1961 ambience to line up with modern sensibilities in a $14.95 million renovation and 15,000-square-foot expansion that will reconfigure the American Falls hospital for the future. Some early 1960s ...

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Backed by $1 million in donations, St. Luke’s Health System will build a 5,235-square-foot respite house in Fruitland for cancer patients traveling from hundreds of miles away for radiation treatment. The $1.6 million respite house will have four guest rooms ...

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Downtown living in Coeur d’Alene will include 46 new upscale apartments this fall on Mullan Avenue across the street from City Hall. The Lake Apartments will have three buildings that are linked on the second floor. The front building will ...

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U.S. homebuilders sharply curtailed the pace of construction in June as housing starts plummeted 12.3 percent. The Commerce Department said July 18 that housing starts fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.17 million from 1.34 million in May. ...

Developers of senior housing describe a saturated market in much of the Treasure Valley. Jeremy Garner, president of Veranda Senior Living, said several new providers – many without experience – have entered the local market to serve the seniors expected ...

Structural work started in mid-June on a 96-room Staybridge Suites in Coeur d’Alene. The $18 million, five-story extended-stay hotel will be part of a complex with the Regal Cinemas Riverstone 14-screen movie theater, condominiums, shopping and restaurants in the five-year-old ...

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Buck Swaney believes high-density, multifamily developments contribute to thriving urban centers, reduce sprawl and provide more cost-effective housing options for the public. Be that as it may, the Utah-based land developer – who is expanding into Eastern Idaho to capitalize ...

The 10-year saga of the Auberge Resort Sun Valley hotel in Ketchum could continue through 2021 after hopes for a December 2018 opening washed away in winter 2016-17. The Ketchum City Council on June 6 granted developer Jack Bariteau a ...

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With new tariffs imposed on imported steel and aluminum, the cost of construction materials rose again in June. The cost of inputs to the construction industry increased by 9.6 percent on average from June 2017 to June 2018, according to ...