For years, Boyz’s West End neighborhood has seen a promise after promising that vacant, polluted and weeded batches on Avenue Fairu or Mine Street will become something new and exciting.
They can become new apartments, new shops and hotels and cafes and restaurants, the developers said.
Many of these dreams have faded or pauses. By squeezing Fairview or Main, you are still facing the same empty batches that dominated the area in 2016, when investors and developers said they were hoping to see the area thrive within the next decade.
Empty batches continue to dominate sections of Avenue Fairview and Main Street in the Boise’s West End neighborhood, with the former 3150 W. Main St.
But a key project to unlock West End and something that could catalyze the development of these still blank batches is to root: the rare neighborhood. The developers, investors and stakeholders hosted an innovative ceremony on Monday to start construction for a 10-Decare of 3150 W. Main St.
The developers promise 220 city houses and apartments, 125-bedroom home apartments from the Hilton Hotel, 20,000 square meters of retail space and a parking garage with 640 list. Most of all, they have long promised the Boise Campus sought for the West Aidaho College.
“This milestone has been over a decade in the creation,” says Gordon Jones, CWI president, in a news message. “We acquired this land in 2015 with a vision to expand our impact and service of the Community in new and meaningful ways. The river neighborhood reflects our commitment to invest in the future of Idaho through education, opportunities and innovations.”
This proposed plan on the site shows the academic building on the right, with the rest of the commercial and residential spread to other buildings.
CWI hires buildings throughout the treasure valley. The river area will bring many of its programs, such as computer science, cybersecurity and business, under one roof in a four -storey academic building with an area of 101,000 square feet.
The site – the former car dealership of Bob Rice Ford cars in the northwestern corner of the main and Weitwater Park Boulevard – rests on the Boyz River and has been acting as a parking lot for people using the Quinn pond and Witwotre Park for years.
“This is an ideal setting for a thriving mixed use that enhances the quality of life in Boise,” says Tommy Alquist, founder and executive director of the Meridian Ahlquist development company, in the edition.
The 10 -acre site sits near the Boyz Greenbelt River and Quinn on the pond and has easy access to the interstate connector 184, Garden City and Downtown Boise.
CWI had planned to use the whole site for its campus when it bought the property for $ 8.8 million. But the plans fell apart after voters in 2016 rejected a $ 180 million bond measure to build it.
Eight years later, CWI agreed to a public-private partnership with Ahlquist. The partnership allowed the college to build a new campus with money from its own construction fund, donors and expected revenue from business without asking for tax money voters.
Lieutenant Scott Bedke spoke during the innovative event, along with Boyz Mayor Lauren McLean, Tommy Alquist and others from the development team.
Ashley Smith, a spokesman for CWI, told State Idaho’s state man in March that the academic building should cost $ 38 million.
“The purpose of CWI was always to have a facility in the center of Boyz to serve our students in Ada County, and we are still able to do it,” Smith said then.
Plans require a four -storey academic building for the West Idaho College College, as shown in this depiction.
CWI and Ahlquist brought several partners, including Wisconsin -based Raymond Management Co., Sun Valley’s Centered Wellness Clinic, Boise’s Hummel Architects, Eagle’s Paradigm Construction Co. and Meridian’s Engineered Structures, Inc. Raymond Management also built Home2suites Home2suitis Home2suites in Homptownes Home2suites.
Ahlquist told the statesman in 2024 that the campus would look and feel of the village in Meridian.
“I think they will have an inherited site here,” Ahlquist said then. “This will be a wonderful place to live.”
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