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San Francisco Bay Area residents looking for the unicorn that affordable housing has become in the region now have one more option thanks to the Boise-based Guerdon,  the Portland, Ore.-based Bridge Housing, and Ankrom Moisan Architects. The developer and architecture ...

When it comes to the health of workers, building construction can be as big a factor as sleep, diet or exercise. New research on health and construction is influencing project designs. Buildings with sustainable elements have been shown to improve ...

Panera Bread is in the city permitting process to become part of the Pioneer Crossing development in downtown Boise. The national sandwich chain would fill a 5,000-square-foot freestanding structure at Myrtle and 11th Street within the Gardner Company development. The ...

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Streets in the northern tier of Ada County will see chipseal road treatment work from June 7 into early September as the Ada County Highway District carries out its annual low-cost road maintenance work. The chipsealing will address 550 lane ...

Officials in Oregon have approved construction permits for the first all-wood high-rise building in the nation. Construction on the 12-story building, called Framework, will break ground this fall in Portland’s trendy and rapidly growing Pearl District and is expected to ...

Boise’s visitor center has headed back to center stage. After seven years tucked under a garage at Front and Ninth streets, the visitors center opened June 5 to the right of the main Boise Centre entrance on the Grove Plaza. ...

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Linden, Utah-based Sunroc Building Materials opened its second Idaho store in May in Idaho Falls. Sunroc is largely a lumber yard offering trusses and framing components along with insulation, timbers, siding, windows, doors, millwork, hardware, decking, and railing materials. Sunroc ...

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The five-year-old My Place hotel chain is eyeing all corners of Idaho for new hotels. My Place, an extended stay chain based in South Dakota, opened its first Idaho hotel on April 10 in Meridian and started construction on a ...

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The five-story, 150-room Hyatt Place opened May 31 at Bannock and 11th Street. Rooms were already sold out May 31 for June 5 and June 6. The hotel will help accommodate visitors to the Council for State & Territorial Epidemiologists ...

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Ada County’s smallest city is awaiting its first national hamburger chain. Annelise and Corey Phillips expect to start construction in mid-June on a 2,900-square-foot, 47-seat Dairy Queen on State Street. Annelise Phillips expects to be serving burgers and Blizzards by ...

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