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U.S. homebuilders are feeling more confident about their sales prospects, reflecting strong demand for newly built homes with existing homes in short supply. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index released May 15 rose two points to ...

The Idaho Central Credit Union is constructing a three-story building in Coeur d’Alene that will also include office functions. Lisa Davis, social media strategist for the Chubbuck-based institution, said the new location will have more work space than the existing ...

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Boise apartment developer Dave Scaggs expects to finish his first Twin Falls project by early July and he already has two more Twin Falls projects in mind. The 80-unit Canyon Falls Townhomes, comprised of 20 four-plexes, sits in the Canyon ...

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Dozens of residential streets in Rupert will be rebuilt or repaved this summer as the city wrestles with extensive flood damage from February 2017 and a road maintenance backlog of a dozen or more years. “This road construction season will ...

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Construction is not a game of inches – not by a long shot. Rather it’s more like a contest to see who can whittle their tolerances down to the nearest millimeter or less. At least that’s the intent of Portland, ...

Commercial Creamery started the latest expansion May 7 of its powdered cheese factory in Jerome. Every few years, Commercial Creamery has added another building to its property near downtown Jerome. The company now has more than 10 buildings, the oldest ...

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Jumping out ahead of the rest of the country, California on May 9 moved to require solar panels on all new homes and low-rise apartment buildings starting in 2020. The new building standard — unanimously approved by the five-member California ...

The Idaho Public Utilities Commission has signed off on a plan to move Idaho Power customers who generate their own solar electricity to a new rate class. The regulatory commission also on May 9 ordered Idaho Power to study those ...

The Wassmuth Center for Human Rights will add an outdoor classroom to the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial at Capitol Boulevard and the Boise River in Boise. The classroom construction will also entail the return of six stone limestone tablets ...

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Buhl-based Clear Springs Foods is ramping up to produce nearly all the trout eggs for its world’s largest rainbow trout farm with a year-old trout egg farm in Mackay. Clear Springs in early 2017 started producing eggs at its Clear ...

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