For the past five years, we’ve tried to maintain a running list of well-known businesses in the Boise area that have closed their locations permanently. As 2025 comes to a close, we’re looking back at nearly 50 businesses that closed for good this year.
Some of the closures on this list were the result of a parent company filing for bankruptcy, sometimes for a second time in recent years. There are several vacant JOANN Fabric locations across the Treasure Valley after the brand moved forward with plans to close all locations nationwide. Boise’s Federal Way location became a temporary Spirit Halloween store this fall. The location in Milwaukee is set to become a Slick City Action Park. It appears the space that the craft store used to occupy at District 208 in Nampa is still for lease.
Rite Aid also went through a second bankruptcy which resulted in the final Idaho locations closing for good.
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While those closures shouldn’t have come as a surprise, there were a few closures that stunned Treasure Valley residents. Boise Towne Square Mall lost one of its major anchors when Kohl’s announced the closure of 27 stores early in the year…