It wasn’t all that long ago when the U.S. Bank Plaza in downtown Boise was the tallest building in town.
Built in 1978 and soaring 19 floors at the northeast corner of Capitol Boulevard and Main Street, according to data from Ada County Assessor’s Office , the building was joined by just a few others to dominate the skyline.
In 2013 the 18-story, 323-foot-tall Eighth & Main building, known more commonly as the Zions Bank Building, filled in a yawning pit in downtown that locals called “the hole.” Eighth & Main knocked the record from the U.S. Bank Plaza, according to We Know Boise Real Estate .
These buildings remade downtown Boise’s skyline — but the skyline edits won’t stop any time soon.
Boise commuters driving up the Interstate 184 Connector can easily spot three cranes working on the western edge of downtown, including a giant stationary crane that workers are using to build a 26-story apartment building, and smaller cranes building a hotel and another apartment building floor by floor.