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Want an affordable apartment, 2 blocks from Capitol? Big Boise project offers hope David Staats, The Idaho Statesman
Mar. 9 A plan is afoot to make a downtown Boise block the site of one of the biggest urban-renewal construction projects ever undertaken in Boise.
The goal: to create more affordable housing. But Boise officials, who are barely into the project s discussion stage, already have doubts about how many of the possible 500 new apartments could or should actually be affordable to people earning modest wages.
The apartments would be built in buildings up to eight stories tall on the block bordered by State, 11th, Jefferson and 10th streets. The block is across State Street from the Downtown Boise YMCA and just two blocks west of the Capitol.
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More housing will come to downtown Boise’s western edge, but what it will look like is still undecided.
On Monday, Boise’s urban renewal agency Capital City Development Corporation’s board heard presentations from three developers looking to build income-restricted housing on Idaho Street. Two of the proposals are for 17 units, the maximum allowed on the .4 acre site, but the third hopes to develop nearly the whole block with 45 units by acquiring nearby parcels.