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If there was an overriding theme to the recent Eastern Idaho Outlook economic summit, aside from a consensus that things are going better than anyone could have expected in a state where the economy is firing on all cylinders, it’s that now ...

Wright Bros. The Building Company sure is versatile. The firm had three projects selected as finalists for the Idaho Business Review’s 2018 Top Project Awards: a school, an apartment building and a waste water treatment facility. Now its crews are ...

Eagle-based Alturas Capital is growing its presence in Idaho and Utah. The commercial real estate investment company recently acquired a 78,000-square-foot office complex in Chubbuck that is fully occupied by an Allstate Insurance Company contact center. In an April 22 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices increased at a slower pace in February, a sign that several years of outsized gains in home values have created affordability challenges in many metro areas. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index ...

Idaho Falls residents clamoring for a Costco store have finally gotten their wish. A 150,000-square-foot Costco and a 15-30 pump fueling station were approved by the city of Idaho Falls on April 25, according to a news release. The City ...

The flagship in a sea of red brick buildings, the new Center for the Visual Arts at Boise State University (BSU) is nearing completion. Construction began two years ago and the building is scheduled to be finished this spring and ...

Smart Parts Inc. purchased 1.47 acres at 14987 Sunny Slope Road in Caldwell. Anmol Rattan of NAI Select represented the landlord. Tom Higgins of Capital Group represented the buyer. Capital City Auto Boise renewed its lease of 1,577 square feet ...

A peculiar thing happened as newcomers fled to Boise’s suburbs seeking to escape urban cores filled with apartments: Those suburbs started getting apartments themselves. Last year, just one of every five new multifamily units in the Treasure Valley was built ...

Icon Credit Union is opening a Weiser branch inside the Ridley’s Family Market currently under construction — the community’s first credit union since 2015. The full-service branch will let customers open new accounts and apply for consumer, mortgage and business loans. ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of new U.S. homes increased 4.5% in March, the third straight monthly gain as the housing market appears to be cautiously recovering from a mortgage rate spike last year that caused homebuying to slump. The Commerce ...