Two Boise affordable housing developers and a third from Coeur d’Alene are vying to redevelop the historic Bonneville Hotel in Idaho Falls. Thomas Development, The Housing Company, both of Boise, and Widmyer Corp. in Coeur d’Alene responded to a Feb. ...

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Developers have seen the demand for rooms in Idaho Falls, and they’re responding with new hotels. Salt Lake City-based Woodbury Corp. started construction on its second Marriott-branded hotel in Idaho Falls in mid-May. The 124-room Springhill Suites by Marriott will ...

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The Idaho Falls Auditorium District is in the home stretch of a nine-year quest to build a multi-purpose event center. Idaho Falls-based Kevin DeKold at CRSA Architects of Salt Lake City has completed schematic drawings for a 4,000-fixed-seat event center, ...

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Idaho Falls is giving its residents and visitors a “to-do” list with about 150 wayfinding signs that will be installed in the next couple of months. These signs will point the direction to a combined 50 attractions reachable by car ...

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The Grand Teton Council of the Boy Scouts of America is turning into a major landlord in Idaho Falls with its acquisition last year of the former Melaleuca corporate headquarters. The council presently occupies 20,000 square feet of the 80,000 ...

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Northwest Cosmetic Labs in Idaho Falls expects to more than double in the next five years after coming off a nearly 500 percent growth rate over the past five years. To that end, construction recently started on a 78,000-square foot ...

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Jan Rogers paints a picture of eastern Idaho as the state’s education, research and high-tech powerhouse. “We own higher education,” said Rogers, executive director of the newly established Regional Economic Development Eastern Idaho, a merging of the economic development agencies ...

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The Museum of Idaho in Idaho Falls plans construction that will keep the museum open year-round and get its prize display, a 14-foot-tall Columbian mammoth, out from where it’s hidden  behind a tarp. The library is three buildings in one: ...

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Boise-based Thornton Oliver Keller Commercial Real Estate opened an office March 2 in Idaho Falls with brothers Brent and Brian Wilson. TOK is the only major Boise commercial real estate firm with an office in Idaho Falls. This is the ...

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The Idaho Falls Redevelopment Agency is seeking proposals to redevelop the historic Bonneville Hotel and a vacant downtown lot that was once the site of the Savings Center. The ambition is to find proposals to convert both properties into downtown ...

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