In an effort to improve its infrastructure to attract business, Kuna is looking at a number of mechanisms to raise funding, including resurrecting an urban renewal agency. Kuna set up the urban renewal agency in 2011 in response to bills ...

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With 30 years of official urban renewal ended Sept. 30 in the heart of downtown Boise, the Capital City Development Corp. is now simultaneously embarking on two new, very different urban renewal districts. CCDC by the end of the year ...

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An $10 million overhaul of the 1927 Bonneville Hotel in downtown Idaho Falls is due to start in September, nearly two years after Boise-based The Housing Company was awarded the development agreement. The Idaho Falls Redevelopment Agency is purchasing the ...

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Ammon plans to establish an urban renewal district on various patches of vacant land in the northwest corner of the city that borders Idaho Falls. The area under consideration falls in the two-mile stretch from Lincoln Road in the north ...

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In 30 years, the downtown core of Boise has evolved from what was famously described in Harper’s magazine as “an exceedingly tidy bombing raid” to a city that magazines now routinely rank in the Top 10 or Top 20 best ...

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A prominent Twin Falls restaurateur plans a brew pub for an historic building in the city’s spiffed-up downtown. Ketchum-based Summit Creek Capital acquired the two-story, 33,000-square-foot Elks Lodge building at Shoshone Street and Second Avenue North in September. The development ...

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Caldwell began construction April 10 on its Indian Creek Plaza downtown revitalization. The project should be ready for winter use before the end of the year. Indian Creek Plaza will serve as a setting for outdoor ice skating setting in ...

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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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