For many years, the Bois West End neighborhood promises the promise that free, dirty and weed -filled batch along the Fairview Avenue or Main Street will become something new and interesting.
The developers said they could become new apartments, new shops, hotels, cafes and restaurants.
Many of those dreams faded or paused. While driving a Fairview or Main, you are still in the same empty battles that dominated 2016, when investors and developers said they expected the area to flourish over the next decade.
Empty parties continue to dominate the Fairview Avenue and Main Street sections in the Boise West End neighborhood, such as the former Bob Bob Rice Ford Car Representation 3150 W. Main St.
But one main project to unlock the West End and what could encourage the development of those still empty parties: the river district. Creators, investors and stakeholders organized an innovative ceremony on Monday to start construction for 10 acres of 3150 W. Main St.
The developers promise 220 city houses and apartments, 125 -room homewood apartments created by Hilton Hotel, 20,000 square feet of retail space and 640 quarters parking lots. Most importantly, they promise the long -sought Bois Township at West Aidah College.
“This phase is for more than a decade,” CWI President Gordon Jones said in a press release. “We have purchased this land in 2015, with vision to expand our impact and serve the community in new and meaningful ways. The river district reflects our commitment to invest in Aidah’s future through education, opportunities and innovations.”
This proposed area plan shows the academic building at the bottom right, while the rest of the commercial and residence is distributed among other buildings.
CWI rents buildings throughout the treasure valley. The river district will provide many of its programs such as informatics, cybersecurity and business, under one roof four -storey, 101,000 square feet in the academic building.
The living room is a former Bob Rice Ford car trading spokesman in the northwestern Main and Whitewater Park Boulevard – Boise River Greenbelt and has been operating for many years as a parking lot for people using Quinn Pond and Whitewater Park.
“It is an ideal environment for prosperous and mixed use that improves Boise’s quality of life,” said Tommy Ahlquist, founder and CEO of Meridian Development Company Ahlquist.
The 10 -acre site is near Boise River Greenbelt and Quinn pond, and it is easy to enter Interstate 184 Connector, Garden City and Downtown Boise.
CWI planned to use the entire site in her town when she bought property for $ 8.8 million. USD. However, plans collapsed after 2016 Voters rejected a $ 180 million bond measure to create it.
Eight years later, CWI agreed with the public -private partnership with Ahlquist. The partnership allowed the college to build a new town from its construction fund, sponsors and expected business income without asking for voter taxes.
Lieutenant Gov Scott Bedke spoke during an innovative event together with Boise Mayor Lauren McLean, Tommy Ahlquist and others.
Ashley Smith, CWI spokesman, March. Aidah’s statesman said the academic building costs $ 38 million.
“The goal of CWI was always to have an institution in the center of Bois to serve our students in Ada County, and we can still do it,” Smith said.
As shown in this conveying, the plans require a four -story academic building at Western Aidah College.
Cwi and Ahlquist have brought several partners, including the Wisconsin Raymond Management Co., Sun Valley’s Centned Wellness Clinic, Boise’s Hummel Architects, Eagle’s Paradigm Construction Co. and Meridian’s Enginered Structures, Inc. Raymond Management also built Boise’s Home2Suites and Hampton Inn & Ides.
Ahlquist 2024 Agreed to the statesman that the town would have the appearance and sensation of the village of Meridian.
“I think they will have an old site here,” said Ahlquist then. “It will be a wonderful place to live.”
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