This is the first in a four-part series on downtown parking lots. Downtown Boise is one big surface parking lot. A map of surface parking lots shows downtown awash in car-bedecked asphalt and dirt. If you mass all the surface ...
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September 25, 2018
Comments Off on PARK(ing) Day sprouts in Boise, Pocatello and Coeur d’Alene parking lots
The third Friday of September is circled on calendars around the world as PARK(ing) Day, an event that highlights “the need for new approaches to making the urban landscape.” There’s nothing official about PARK(ing) Day, but since San Francisco art ...
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Construction start is about a month away for the new seven-level, 546-space parking garage slated for Front Street between Fifth and Sixth streets. “We have a grading permit to start excavation as soon as the utility work is completed,” said ...
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As Boise law firms flee downtown parking woes, the Angstman-Johnson law firm is moving downtown from its long-time Lakeharbor Lane location near Collister Road. Angstman-Johnson bought the entire 11,000-square-foot second floor of the Chase Bank Building on Capitol Boulevard for ...
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Downtown Boise attorneys are moving out of town, and they say parking is one reason why. MSBT Law, which has been in the Banner Bank building at 10th and Bannock since 2006, is moving when its five-year lease is up, ...
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May 18, 2018
Comments Off on Ketchum reduces most of its paid parking rates
After fielding complaints when it started charging for parking in November, the city of Ketchum mostly scaled back its parking rates in early May and restored some free parking in its two downtown parking lots. The city had asked drivers ...
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May 3, 2018
Comments Off on Twin Falls eliminates downtown parking passes
Twin Falls is scrapping its paid parking pass program in order to double the number of free, three-hour parking spaces in the seven city-owned downtown parking lots. The move will increase the number of three-hour parking stalls from 230 to ...
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A three-week curbside drop-off and pick-up zone will be tested in April in front of four neighboring Main Street bars in the Old Boise sector of downtown Boise. Parking meters will have signage indicating the new passenger loading zone on ...
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January 22, 2018
Comments Off on Coeur d’Alene becomes third Idaho city to build public parking garage
Coeur d’Alene started construction in December on the city’s first parking garage, a 360-space downtown structure along Coeur d’Alene Avenue between Third and Fourth streets. Coeur d’Alene will be only the third city in Idaho with a public garage along ...
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January 8, 2018
Comments Off on To park or not to park: That is the question CCDC wants people to ponder
Even with three new parking garages on the horizon, downtown Boise workers should still be thinking of alternatives to driving, says Max Clark, parking and facilities director at the Capital City Development Corp. CCDC owns six public garages in the heart ...
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