November 29, 2019
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With a holiday shopping season one week shorter than usual, small businesses need to promote themselves using events such as Small Business Saturday, scheduled for Nov. 30 – the day after Black Friday, the traditional beginning of the holiday shopping season. ...
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October 22, 2018
Comments Off on Old-school retail flourishes in Idaho
This is the golden age for retail in Idaho, whether that’s a chain store or an independent, downtown or in a mall. National and regional retailers continue to discover the Treasure Valley, local merchants are thriving, downtowns are being energized ...
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Mattress Firm, a Houston-based mattress chain, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but it is unclear whether any Idaho stores are slated for the first round of 210 store closures announced Oct. 5. The closure list in the bankruptcy documents includes a ...
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August 13, 2018
Comments Off on Three-suite retail strip awaits tenants in Kuna
JRW Construction of Eagle is building its first retail strip center in Kuna on a half-acre lot that owner James Wylie has owned for more than 10 years. Wylie and his sons, Jake and Erik, started construction at the end ...
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The Benchmark outdoor adventure equipment store is shutting down as soon all the inventory is sold after 31 years at the same Vista Avenue location on the Boise Bench. Owner Emil Hutton started the clearance sale April 14. “We planned ...
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February 18, 2016
Comments Off on St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store moves into rebuilt Broadway Park space
Fourteen months after a Thanksgiving weekend fire destroyed the central section of the Broadway Park shopping center in Boise, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store now is open in most of the rebuilt space. St. Vincent moved ...
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January 22, 2016
Comments Off on Offers are coming in for Boise Kmart site
The 40-year-old Big K Kmart building at 10477 Fairview Ave. in Boise likely won’t sit empty long once the retailer shuts the store in mid-March. “I can tell you, we got two offers on it yesterday (Jan. 21),” said Bob ...
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January 22, 2016
Comments Off on Broulim’s grocer opens at Sandcreek Commons in Ammon
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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November 27, 2015
Comments Off on Karcher Mall fills its last anchor with Mor Furniture
Mor Furniture for Less’s anticipated spring 2016 opening at the Karcher Mall will have all the anchor stores at Idaho’s oldest mall filled for the first time since the departure of Macy’s in 2009. “It’s a huge accomplishment,” said Jennifer ...
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September 25, 2015
Comments Off on Pawn 1 will add a Meridian store
Pawn 1, which has five pawn shops in the Treasure Valley, will not follow the obvious route to build its first Meridian shop. Owner Mark Lax didn’t bother with Meridian Road or Eagle Road, downtown or freeway proximity. He decided ...
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