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Online retailers are finding growth opportunities in an unexpected place: the traditional brick-and-mortar retail store. After years of dire predictions about the future of actual stores, Marc A. Menick, president of the KLNB commercial real estate company in Washington, D.C., ...

The Bridges at Lakemoor, ostensibly a planned retail-heavy center, started construction in 2016 with the new corporate headquarters for the swiftly growing tech start-up TSheets. The first two retail buildings, each 11,000 square feet along a pond and Eagle Road, ...

Tagged with: Commercial Real Estate Hawkins Companies

U-Haul, the Phoenix-based moving and storage company, has bought the former Kmart buildings in Idaho Falls and Ammon to convert into the company’s largest climate-controlled self-storage centers in Idaho. The Ammon sale closed August 15 for an undisclosed price and ...

Tagged with: Idaho Falls Kmart Thornton Oliver Keller U-Haul

On June 21, the U.S. Supreme Court upended the online retail industry, giving states the power to force online retailers to collect sales tax from sales to consumers. The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Wayfair overruled 50 years of precedent ...

Multi-generational family households are making a comeback. Now homeowners are creating a second dwelling unit on their property called an Accessory Dwelling Unit or ADU.  In most residential properties, building code allows for it. Whether that unit is separate or ...

No matter where the real estate conversation starts, it always seems to turn to the subject of multifamily housing. There’s just so much to talk about. First, there’s the fact that so many people who used to live in single-family ...

Developers of senior housing describe a saturated market in much of the Treasure Valley. Jeremy Garner, president of Veranda Senior Living, said several new providers – many without experience – have entered the local market to serve the seniors expected ...

Idaho is growing. Are we growing up? The U.S. Census reported that Idaho was the fastest growing state last year, at 2.2 percent. But Idaho’s nearly 37,000 new residents in 2017 aren’t many compared with the U.S. as a whole, ...

Buck Swaney believes high-density, multifamily developments contribute to thriving urban centers, reduce sprawl and provide more cost-effective housing options for the public. Be that as it may, the Utah-based land developer – who is expanding into Eastern Idaho to capitalize ...

I have noticed a recent uptick in questions from my clients about steps that can be taken to limit their potential liability associated with either designing or building condominium projects. These questions are spurred by an increasing market for condos, ...