This restaurant’s impact on Boise? ‘Unbelievable.’ Decades later, it’s closing

When P.F. Chang’s opened in Boise as part of a $60 million redevelopment of the former 8th Street Marketplace, its economic impact felt like it rattled the sidewalks for blocks.

“I’m up huge. It’s unbelievable,” a nearby Irish pub owner told the Statesman in 2005, pausing as he cleaned a table. “I’m getting P.F. Chang-ed!”

Equally hard to believe 20 years later? P.F. Chang’s, an anchor of what is now downtown Boise’s BoDo district, is closing…

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