Idaho Business Review IBR

Boise Cascade Corp., Idaho’s second-largest company in terms of sales, weathered last year’s economic storms reasonably well, and sees brighter days ahead, a corporate spokesman says.“We’re in a good position … we feel good about the way our businesses are ...

Plans have been filed with the City of Boise to build a 13-building storage facility on a nearly 4-acre vacant parcel on West Fairview Avenue between Wild Wood Street and Five Mile Road.The applicant, Chip Gallagher of Planned Storage LLC ...

The Collister Shopping Center at Collister Drive and State Street in Boise is nearing the completion of a nearly year-long renovation by on-site owners who hope to revitalize the 40-year-old, 8.5-acre mini-mall. The renovation, estimated at about $300,000, started in ...

Analyst Bob Toomey believes Albertson’s Inc. stock will perform well in the next year.Toomey, a Seattle-based managing director and securities analyst with RBC Dain Rauscher, met with about 50 members of the firm’s Private Client Group at the DoubleTree Downtown ...

Bolo’s, a Treasure Valley-based pub and grillhouse, plans its second restaurant in early March at Eighth and Idaho streets in downtown Boise, formerly home to Doughty’s Bistro.Brad Bolicek, a Boise resident who opened the first Bolo’s Pub & Eatery in ...

Caldwell-based Farm & City Supply plans this spring to add stores in Eagle and northeast Nampa.Construction began recently on a metal building of 13,000 square feet on Franklin Road south of the Idaho Center, Nampa, company owner Carl Woodburn said. ...

While some high-end homes – over $300,000 – took longer to sell last year than in previous years, the upper end of the housing market continues to expand, according to Boise-area real estate professionals. Homes that sold for $300,000 or ...

Western Electronics wants to do more than contract manufacturing.The Meridian company, which anchors a building of 107,000 square feet on Overland Road just west of the Meridian Road interchange with Interstate 84, recently started becoming a complete “supply-chain management” company.New ...

A new device for detecting weakening at the molecular level could virtually eliminate uncertainty about the durability of many critical construction and mechanical components, a Boise startup company says. The technology, developed at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratories ...

A Meridian company has contracted with a Chinese firm to be a supplier for construction of 1,100 log homes near Beijing – planned as part of an “Olympia Villas” development for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.Precision Craft Log Structures, ...