Cushman & Wakefield has announced that the firm has served as the exclusive advisor to Hawkins Companies in the procurement of $56 million in construction financing for the development of Canyon Ridge, a five-building 287-unit multifamily community located off Gowen Road in Boise. The lender is Sunwest Bank. Hawkins Companies is headquartered in downtown Boise with an additional office in ... Read More

OGDEN — Ambitious plans to reimagine and redevelop a nearly 30-acre downtown Ogden swath encompassing Union Station are out of the starting block. McWhinney of Loveland, Colorado, and J. Fisher Cos. of Centerville, have been picked to draw up the development scheme for the 29.6-acre piece of property, which sits on the west side of Wall Avenue, extending from 22nd Street south to 27th Street. ... Read More

SOUTH WEBER — The nearly completed upgrade of U.S. 89 through northern Davis County may allow for smoother, less stop-and-go traffic along the new section getting attention. Reach the northern endpoint of the improved road section on the periphery of South Weber and Uintah, though, and the story changes. Northbound motorists will "travel along 89 at a quick speed, but they'll still come to an ... Read More

Jan. 27—As an ambitious proposal to build a $98 million multi-use recreation center on the Billings South Side moves forward, residents recently got a peek at updated renderings of what the facility could look like. The 177,000 square-foot facility would include an ice sheet for hockey and skating, a leisure and activity pool for families, a 50-meter competition pool, four sports courts, open ... Read More

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has announced the award of $30,304,970 in construction grants to nine drinking water and wastewater systems across the state as part of the American Rescue Plan Act funds directed by Gov. Brad Little. According to Little, these investments from last year could potentially keep property taxes low. “Property taxes are determined locally,” ... Read More

Design of the expanded terminal at the Northern Colorado Regional Airport is more than halfway complete, but new questions over funding could mean another delay for the project. This month,Fort Collins officials nixed a plan to raise its anticipated $1 million contribution through debt financing, but agreed to explore other funding options as long as conditions are attached. “What we heard ... Read More

For years, trailer parks set up on state-owned land have offered the workers who plow Colorado's highways and maintain many of its scenic byways one of the surest ways to gain a stable footing in wildly expensive mountain housing markets. "I was part of the one in Avon," said Joseph Bajza, who was starting a family with his wife when the Colorado Department of Transportation hired him eight ... Read More

Construction companies are counting on a surge in public works projects to keep them busy this year as higher interest rates cause private real estate investment to dry up. “Contractors are optimistic about the construction outlook for 2023, yet they are expecting very different market conditions for the coming year than what they experienced last year,” said Stephen Sandherr, CEO of the ... Read More