Boise-based anti-fraud technology company Kount could have easily relocated into some anonymous office building in some anonymous business park in the suburbs. That would not have suited CEO Brad Wiskirchen. He wanted a new space that matched the company’s culture, ...
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August 23, 2018
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Creating apartments for downtown living drove Mike Allen in recent years to buy the historic Montgomery Ward and Rogers Hotel buildings that are across the street from each other in downtown Idaho Falls. Allen since October has been renovating the ...
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August 10, 2018
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Offices and a restaurant or two could soon fill the historic Odd Fellows building in downtown Idaho Falls, long home to an antiques shop. Local farmers Kris and Tasha Taylor bought the 1908 Romanesque Revival structure in summer 2017 and ...
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Sitting empty since 2006, the original four-level brick Montgomery Ward building in downtown Coeur d’Alene will be largely filled up by tenants by the end of summer. Three Coeur d’Alene businesses teamed up to buy the 27,000-square foot Wiggett Building ...
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July 7, 2017
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Eagle-based Alturas Capital has acquired the iconic Adelmann building with the corner turret that stands between Boise City Hall and the Capitol. Alturas bought the building from Maverick Investments of Long Beach, Calif., which had owned the 1902 structure since ...
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December 5, 2016
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All Craig LaVoie wanted to do was remove the decades-old yellow-red-orange tiles and slap a more modern facade on his Largent’s Appliance store front in downtown Lewiston. The tiles started coming off Nov. 2. Immediately, history emerged: the original round ...
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November 19, 2015
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The historic Perrault-Fritchman building that defines Old Boise has passed out of the Fritchman family hands for the first time since 1926. Jay Story, who buys and sells commercial real estate with his Story Commercial at the west end of ...
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