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May 21, 2015

Space going fast in City Center Plaza, a $75M complex in downtown Boise

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Building permits were obtained less than a month ago for the 370,000-square-foot complex, yet only about 1,500 square feet is still available.

Gardner Co. isn't having any trouble filling space in its $75 million project in downtown Boise called City Center Plaza.

Building permits were obtained less than a month ago for the 370,000-square-foot complex, yet only about 1,500 square feet is still available, according to Dave Wali, executive vice president at Gardner.

Wali said Clearwater Analytics has signed up for 110,000 square feet, the city's convention center is taking 100,000 square feet, Boise State University wants 50,000 square feet for computer science classrooms and labs, Buffalo Wild Wings is building a restaurant and three other tenants have signed letters of intent.

The project consists of a nine-story office and retail building connected by a skybridge to a five-story building with retail, two levels of parking, and a commercial kitchen, meeting space and ballrooms for the convention center.

The convention center is across a circular pedestrian plaza from the new buildings.

CenturyLink Arena and Grove Hotel on top of the arena face the plaza that is between the convention center and new buildings.

The new meeting and ballroom space will connect into the third floor of the arena, and a future skybridge will connect the arena to the convention center.

Another skybridge will link the second floor of the garage to US Bank Center, which is also owned by Gardner.

The project site was a parking lot that sat above an underground parking garage. The garage will be retained as part of an underground transportation hub operated by Valley Regional Transit.

The general contractor is Engineered Structures Inc. of Meridian, Idaho.

Crews have built about three floors of the taller building and have finished the 25-foot-deep hole for the other building, which will sit atop the transportation hub. The shell and core, along with several tenant spaces, are expected to be finished in June 2016.

Babcock Design Group's Boise office is the architect. Other firms on the team are: KPFF Consulting Engineers, structural; PVE Inc., mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineer; Horrocks Engineers, civil; Spectrum Engineers, lighting designer; and Baer Design Group, landscape architect.

The project is expected to be a catalyst for downtown development.




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