Two planned residential housing facilities will no longer be part of downtown Boise’s future.
Capital City Development Corporation (CCDC) moved to terminate contract agreements for a mixed-use housing development next to the new YMCA and a workforce housing project on an adjacent block in a board meeting earlier this month. The move, which was first reported by BoiseDev , terminates plans that were looking to incorporate an exterior block of the Boise downtown area into an urban renewal district.
Though a parking structure — located adjacent to the new YMCA site — will continue to be developed with revenues from CCDC’s parking system, the residential plans that were initially intended to reshape the complexion of the area will no longer be moving forward.
A prior agreement between CCDC and partner developers set a deadline for the workforce housing project to be completed by September 2025. Though an extension was provided in December of last year, “this summer it be(came) clear the project would not be advancing,” Lana Graybeal, CCDC’s director of external affairs, said in an email statement. Plans for a residential housing project for seniors, that was to be located above the planned parking garage were similarly halted in a prior board meeting.