couple of updates in this week's Idaho Statesman:
1 - the Avens on the west end of downtown is about to break ground. image from the Statesman:
the city is hoping this is one of many projects that will spur development in the West End, which has long been an area of blight and empty surface lots for years. there are multiple other residential proposals for the area; the Avens is the first to move forward.
2 - Boise State has plans to construct an on-campus, 8-floor student dorm that would be 100ft tall. No details, including location and timing, have been revealed.