Idaho Business Review IBR

Editor’s note: This is the final installment in a four-part series on the gig economy.  Monday through Wednesday, Jason Pease’s day starts at 3 a.m. Pease hits the road in the dark in his 2015 Toyota Prius, listening for the ...

The era of the 15-year Taco Ball Arena will end soon and a new name will be hoisted in its place: The ExtraMile Arena. Boise State University on May 22 said it has a deal with ExtraMile Convenience Stores LLC ...

The Gem State might be tops on a lot of recent “best of” lists, and the latest U.S. News and World Report best state rankings sees Idaho making a respectable showing. In its third annual survey published May 14, the ...

As WinCo Foods readies to build a second Meridian store, the company continues to grow its market share in other Western states, bringing its famous low prices to the competitive grocery industry. Employee-owned WinCo opened the first of two newly ...

One of Boise’s oldest hotels will get a $10 million makeover and new branding as an upscale hotel. The seven-story Red Lion Downtowner, which opened in 1960 and was last remodeled in 2006, will see each of its 182 rooms ...

Zions Bank has created a separate North Idaho region that could presage the bank’s expansion in the area. Currently, the bank, which is based in Salt Lake City, has two branches in the region: Lewiston and Moscow. That could change, ...

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The specter of an upcoming recession loomed over the recent Capital Connect Conference, put on by the Idaho Technology Council as a snapshot of the year’s entrepreneurial activity, but results are pretty good, for now. It’s hard not to think ...

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A Utah-headquartered mortgage lender is looking to get a slice of the home financing market in the Boise area. Castle & Cooke Mortgage has expanded its operations in the Treasure Valley, opening its second location in Idaho at 512 N. ...

Washington Federal Bank’s headquarters will remain in Seattle, but the bank is expanding back-office operations in Idaho because of lower costs. “The bank realized that continuing to house our back-office operations in Seattle was not going to be cost-efficient,” said ...

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  Investment deals dropped to $1.73 billion in 2018, compared with $2.04 billion the previous year, but showed an 11% increase in the number of deals, according to the Deal Flow Report released May 8 at the Idaho Technology Council’s ...

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