After 28 years, all the buildings are now in place to fully encircle the Grove Plaza and erase a four-block vacant lot created by 1960s-70s urban renewal demolition. The Boise Centre East expansion project reached its “topping out” day Feb. ...

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Four months of heavy lifting wrapped up Sept. 22 at the nine-story Clearwater Building that is taking shape at City Center Plaza in downtown Boise. Tall building construction projects typically have a “topping off” ceremony with dignitaries when work reaches ...

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Pat Rice has long hoped to see a full-service convention center headquarters hotel in downtown Boise with 425 or so rooms. That would serve the Boise Centre, where he is executive director. Instead, it looks like he’s going to get ...

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The newest design for the Boise Centre concourse includes a first-ever large “Boise Centre” sign for the main entrance of the 25-year-old convention center. The sign came into play as an elevated concourse walkway was scaled back from across the ...

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The long-dormant Parcel B is warming up for the Greater Boise Auditorium District, which bought the 5.02-acre dirt lot at Myrtle, Front and 11th streets in 2000. Gardner Company, owner of downtown Boise’s two tallest buildings, expressed an interest on ...

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The Boise Centre – 25 years old this January – was the focal point for the modern Boise downtown that has emerged since redevelopment flattened a four-block area along Eighth Street in the 1960s and 1970s. The convention center, opened ...

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