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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A proposal that lawmakers are mulling on urban renewal could have prevented large-scale projects that have redefined Idaho Falls and Twin Falls, the leaders of those cities say. “Without urban renewal, I hate to think where we would be,” Twin ...

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In the past year or so, Sandcreek Commons in Ammon has transformed from 40 mostly undeveloped acres to eastern Idaho’s second-largest shopping center. Broulim’s Fresh Foods, an eastern Idaho supermarket chain, opened its 60,000-square-foot store Dec. 21 to become Sandcreek’s ...

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