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Volume 6 No. 2 April 2020 By Kim Burgess 4696 W. Overland Rd., Suite 180 A few years ago, I walked down 8th Street in downtown Boise for the first Boise, ID 83705 time. It was a perfect June evening, warm and sunny, with crowds filling the patios of trendy restaurants and people strolling on the sidewalk. Cyclists EDITOR passed by regularly, and I even spotted the now-familiar sight of the pedal- Kim Burgess — 208-639-3518 powered “Busycle,” with its cheering passengers. [email protected] I had traveled to Boise from Albuquerque to visit some friends with no real concept of what it would be like and left thinking, “I could live there MANAGING EDITOR s om e d ay.” Sharon Fisher — 208-639-3524 [email protected] And here I am, a happy Idahoan with no plans to ever leave. That first experience of a bustling, walkable downtown was what drew me in. I still WEB EDITOR regularly enjoy strolls down 8th Street to some of my favorite hang-outs Liz Patterson Harbauer — 208-639-3510 (Fork and Red Feather are go-to spots for out-of-town guests.) [email protected] In this edition of Square Feet, we celebrate vibrant downtowns around the state. From Twin Falls to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho’s downtowns are growing and WRITER revitalizing. You’ll find stories about a mural project in the small Eastern Catie Clark — 208-639-3515 [email protected] Idaho community of Blackfoot that is popular with visitors and locals alike, a new park that is coming to downtown Boise and an interview with Matthew PUBLISHER Mazzotta, the “social practice artist” who designed the Buscycle. Cindy Suffa — 208-639-3517 We also spotlight Caldwell’s success with the Indian Creek Plaza development, which hosted 315 events and activities in [email protected] 2019, everything from concerts, farmers markets, holiday celebrations, fitness classes and brew fests. On the practical side of the equation, Boise’s new alternative transporation organization City Go is tackling downtown MULTIMEDIA SALES EXECUTIVE Jeanette Trompczynski ­— 208-639-3526 traffic gridlock head-on by encouraging cycling, walking, van pools and ride-share. And in Nampa, city leaders have [email protected] refinanced bonds for development, adding up to $5 million in savings. Statewide, accessibility experts are finding ways to improve access to downtowns for people with disabililties. MULTIMEDIA SALES EXECUTIVE These varied efforts all add up to better downtowns for everyone. Autumn Kersey ­— 208-639-3519 [email protected] Kim Burgess ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT/PUBLIC NOTICE/REPRINTS Idaho Business Review Editor Laura Clements — 208-639-3528 [email protected]

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ON THE COVER: Guests enjoy the 2018 Sunnyslope Wine Festival at Indian Creek Plaza in Caldwell. Photo courtesy of Destination Caldwell. April 2020 | idahobusinessreview.com| SQUARE FEET quarterly IDAHO BUSINESS REVIEW publication | 3 Idaho Business Out Loud interview: Kaite Justice, program director at City Go

By Liz Patterson Harbauer from your bus stop. Now you can find all of that in one place. So Right now, maybe the problem doesn’t seem all that big. If you Idaho Business Review that’s really exciting. commute in from Canyon County, your commute may be 60 to Beyond that, there’s a lot of other interesting parts of being a 70 minutes. It’s not great, but it’s not so terrible that you don’t do Downtown Boise is known for being pleasant and walkable, member. You will receive expert trip reduction planning and it. We just gripe about it a little bit. Same with parking. You may but like any urban core, parking and traffic are continual help meet the needs or maybe the problems for your unique set have to drive around a little bit, but usually you can find parking. challenges. Now an innovative new program is aiming to offer of issues as a business. So that may mean mobility packages, but So we’re starting to see strain, but it’s not to its breaking point some remedies. that may mean creating a parking cash-out program where you can yet. However, we all know Boise’s growing very rapidly. We see it City Go is an all-inclusive incentivize people not to park because your parking resources are every day. We see it in our housing market, our transportation membership association strained or a daily parking program. And so there’s a lot of different system, our workforce, etc. It’s very evident that it’s going to have that deals with mobility things that we can do to help businesses with their commuting pretty serious impacts. So it’s estimated in 20 years from now, by needs, transportation and needs and help provide benefits for their employees further. 2040, we will have an additional 20,000 workers in downtown parking. Kaite Justice, the Everyone can be involved and help guide the direction of Boise. And the population growth will equate to about 200,000 organization’s program sustainable strategies and growth management when it comes to more vehicle trips every day on our roadways. That’s a lot of cars. director, recently sat down our transportation sector. City Go will be very much guided by That’s a lot of trips. That’s a lot more congestion. with the Idaho Business Out the voices of our members, so it’s not just public agencies deciding So it’s not bad now, but it’s going to get worse. And if we don’t Loud podcast to discuss her on that. It’s really a collaborative effort to figure out what’s going do anything to mitigate that, we’re going to see really terrible mission to reduce single- to be the best options for our unique needs in downtown Boise. congestion, really bad parking strains, greater wear and tear, occupancy vehicle use in higher maintenance costs, etc. downtown Boise. How far out from downtown Boise does this extend? When you talk about the drive-alone rate in the city of Boise, This transcript has been based on the last census, the drive alone rate is 80.6%, with the rest That’s a tricky question because technically we cover the edited for length and clarity. of the modes being around 20% and that includes telecommuting downtown Boise planning area, so we go Boise State around to work as well as all of the other shared mobility options. But Ann Morrison, Whitewater, State and Broadway roughly. But Kaite Justice recently we partnered with the Idaho Policy Institute and we did Can you start us off transportation is fluid, right? You have people coming from actual mode counts downtown. We were on the side of the road by telling us about the Caldwell and from Star and from Kuna and from Meridian into counting single-occupancy vehicles in the last month, and what downtown Boise or you have residents of downtown who may City Go program and the options it provides to we found was that the drive-alone rate coming into downtown be commuting out. And so while we’re focusing on trips that businesses and individuals? is actually 90 to 91%. So what that equates to is about 39,000 touch downtown one way or another, we’re really talking about vehicles coming into downtown every day. City Go is providing for the first time an efficient multi- transportation availability throughout the Valley. modal program that helps people commute in, out and around And then that’ll get even worse as we grow. So shifting towards downtown Boise with the goal of reducing congestion, improving What were the problems that you set out to solve more sustainable options is good now, but it’s going to be a air quality and increasing economic vitality in downtown Boise. necessity as we go further. City Go provides memberships for businesses, for developers and when you created this program? for individuals. City Go was initiated as a collaboration to bring public and private It’s like a preemptive step before the problem gets One of the first major initiatives that comes from this is partners together to address the problem of single-occupancy even worse. multi-modal transportation benefit packages. We call it the City vehicle use in downtown Boise. So the major overarching goal of Yes. A lot of cities don’t create such associations or really start Go wallet and this is really the first time where businesses and everything we do is to reduce drive-alone rates. In the beginning, to look to solve their problem until they hit that breaking point. A individuals can find information, purchase and manage those the City of Boise, Capital City Development Corporation, Valley lot of metro cores see an economic downturn because of parking benefits. So when I say multi-modal, we’re talking about bus, Regional Transit, Boise State and Ada County Highway District vanpool, carpool, parking, bike share, biking resources, safe and Commuteride came together to start this and grow it so that walking resources, transit connections, which can get you to and we could work on that goal. See JUSTICE, page 5 TitleOne Commercial Team

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Boise has a number of alternative transportation avenues in addition to people driving their own cars, but each method has its own challenges, according to alternative transportation advocates at a recent panel discussion. Lisa Brady, Jordan Morales, Russ Stoddard and Jamee Zahn shared challenges, realities and rewards of favoring alternative transportation in the Boise metro. A February question- and-answer session, organized by City Go, was moderated by Boise State University’s Greg Hahn, associate vice president for communications and marketing. Hahn also advocates for bicycling and the Bronco Shuttle.

Bike Barriers The reality is, neither Brady or Stoddard are “100% bicycle people.” Both use cars, from taking loved ones to the airport to maintaining a not-sweaty work appearance. Brady works for the West Ada and Boise school districts and is the director of the Safe Panelists address questions about downtown transportation options at a City Go event. Photo by Alx Stevens Routes to Schools with the YMCA. She has The cost of her car insurance and gas nearby businesses if it’s OK. ValleyRide and City being on a bicycle allowed him to slow down commuted by bicycle since the late 1980s and decreased, and reduced traveling helps offset Go’s websites are additional resources. and see new establishments, such as stores or works with local bicycle initiatives. costs of car repair, Zahn said. “The biggest thing if you decide to commute restaurants, on his routes. Stoddard, co-owner of Oliver Russell, is Additional benefits: with alternate transportation is just planning is “I’m not a very social person and also I’m gone a longtime bicycle commuter who grew up • A guaranteed ride home for expected all it is,” Morales said. “I always have a browser a lot of the hours of the day, and so I don’t have “before helicopter moms” when children rode overtime or emergency tab on my phone that shows the Boise State time to make friends in the community,” Zahn bicycles everywhere. • Time to decompress shuttle tracker and then another tab that shows said. “And so these people (in the vanpool) are Sometimes, Stoddard said, he “wimps out” on • Getting work done on the commute when the VRT Bus Tracker.” part of my community and they have the same rain and extreme cold. the backup driver takes over Worst case scenario: “We’re lucky to live in a concerns that I do.” “I commute every single month of the year and Zahn also occasionally uses her car. time period where we have things like Lyft and typically what sidelines me is when it snows a lot, “And so a lot of people will drive the van and Uber.” Thoughts on scooters or, you know, worse than snow is when it’s icy. And then use one day a week that they drive themselves “What’s the one piece of advice you need “I saw a really, really nasty accident between I had a couple times when I took a little spill ... and in, just to be able to do all their shopping, their to give somebody who’s sort of on the fence, a biker and someone on one of those electric I’m like ‘That’s not going to be worth a broken hip.’” appointments, their everything,” Zahn said. beyond, ‘Just do it’?” Hahn asked. scooters on the Greenbelt, which really put a bad Brady agreed and said she occasionally takes “Can the van vote to expel someone?” Hahn “Don’t make it hard on yourself,” Morales taste in the mouth for those electric scooters,” one the bus. asked. For example, temperature is a common said. “It’s OK to be anxious.” woman said. “I guess they’re an alternative form of “The important part about the weather thing contentious point. And, basically, you don’t have to go “cold turkey.” transportation, especially in this area with college is that there’s really no bad day on the bike,” Zahn: “I don’t know if Commuter Ride would students going into campus. (I wonder) if you guys Brady said. “(The gear) doesn’t have to be fancy. advise of that. But it is one of those things that Tips and resources for bicycle riders have thoughts on the regulation or use of those It can be latex gloves and Ziploc bags for your you have to deal with.” electric scooters on campus, or in Boise.” hands and feet to be wind barriers. It’s layering “Ride your route on Sunday,” Brady said. “Just in general, I think they’re cool,” Stoddard cheap wool layers at the thrift stores.” “Ride to work and figure (your route) out. Catching the shuttle or bus Why wouldsaid. “I Ihate hire them five when they’re on sidewalks One woman asked whether more dedicated Figure out the back way. And then watch your and people haul ass on those things, meaning bicycle parking spots would be added. Morales works for Boise State’s computer sale racks for some gear.” companies to handle a like they go faster than I go my bike. And they Brady said she is aware of conversations science department, which recently moved into Stoddard agreed. just don’t use the same rules of the road.” about the subject happening between the City of a downtown building. The shuttle system is free “(I’d) say, keep your expectations low,” Stoddarddisaster when one Stoddard is glad to see people using them, but Boise and the Capital City Development Corp., for students and employees. said. “You don’t have to do it all the time.” companysaid there can should do be moreit all? regulation. the likely solution source. Morales has to drive a few miles and park to The cyclists mentioned local bicycle shops ride. He has a longer commute time, but that’s and nonprofits as additional resources for tips “I know that the ER rooms are not infrequently visited by people who are on the Pros and cons of vanpooling good because he, too, decompresses, he said. on starting a bicycle commute, as well as for “My daughter is super social. Coming home selecting a bicycle. scooters,” Stoddard said. Zahn and her family moved to Emmett, but to her after being on the bus is a lot different And, expect to get sweaty. “I like ‘em,” Brady said. “But the (danger) they have only one car. Zahn joined Ada County than coming home from driving in traffic,” point is well taken. We put something on Highway District Commuteride as a rider and Morales said. Unexpected benefits the street that we didn’t give anybody any van driver. instruction on how to use.” “It will take a lot of buy-in for commuters to Tips and resources for shuttle/bus/ To close, Hahn asked: “What’s the most Brady acknowledged that scooters are fun do it because it is very much a time investment,” unexpected benefit that came from going this and fast and youth are good at riding them. She Zahn said. vanpool users route, to commuting? echoed that they don’t understand how traffic Due to the commute and van schedule, “I don’t live right next to a bus stop. Is it OK to The common theme: a closer connection to works, and something overlooked is doors Zahn is out 12 hours. Her employer, the Idaho park in public parking lots?” a female audience the community. opening and people walking out of buildings. Department of Labor, allowed work schedule member asked. 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JUSTICE Continued from 3 issues, because of congestion, it gets to the point partners that I mentioned — City of Boise, Speaking of the future, what changes How does an individual get started where that downtown area is no longer desirable CCDC, Valley Regional Transit, Boise State do you foresee in Treasure Valley in on this? How do they manage those for employers. People don’t want to go to shop and ACHD Commuteride — all put in funding different options? there or whatnot because parking is terrible. for the first two years to get this up and going 2020? Congestion’s bad, and so people want to avoid and sustainable. Going forward, we will have 2020 isn’t too far in the future, but I think You go to our website citygoboise.com and it. City Go and all of our partners are looking to funding from membership fees as well, and we’re going to keep seeing the strain of growth. there›s a “how to join” page for individuals. get something put into place before the problem we’ll work to bring in grants and other funding We see it in our housing market; we see it in You can sign up and pay for your annual gets there so that hopefully, unlike other cities, sources. But it’s definitely going to be a lot of the transportation sector. It is just going to membership on there. For an individual, it’s we don’t see that problem get as bad. funding streams coming from several different become more and more evident. So hopefully $50 a year, which really you can save about methods. that helps bring the conversation to better $100 a month on some of the packages. So that What further steps does the pays for itself in the first one or two months. Treasure Valley need to take to We have resources on our website about all build an even better system? City the different modes. So maybe if you haven’t “We are all part of the problem, ridden before, you can figure out where your Go is a step that we’re taking. bus stop is, what times they go, what is the best Are there others that we can start right? Any one of us, we get in our option, what’s available where you are, and find discussing and looking at? all the information on all of the modes in one vehicle, we drive, we’re part of that spot. Definitely. I think a lot of it — and this goes for City Go and this goes for public transportation To sum up for our listeners and in general — is greater buy-in. We are all part of congestion. And does that mean we the problem, right? Any one of us, we get in our readers, what’s the final thought you vehicle, we drive, we’re part of that congestion. should all get rid of our cars? No. want to leave them with about the And does that mean we should all get rid of our transportation crisis? cars? No. But we need to think about what else But we need to think about what To think that we are the problem and we we can do. Idaho is, I think, now one of only are the solution. So each one of us can make a one or two states that does not have dedicated choice to leave our car at home some days, even public transportation funding. And so what that else we can do.” if it’s just one day a week. means for us is that our system is significantly Think about how you can make an alternative- underfunded compared to other cities our size. —Kaite Justice, City Go program director transportation-friendly work environment And that’s likely not going to change. as well. How do we build that culture where I don’t foresee, at least in the next few years, that’s an easy choice for people to make? A step us getting dedicated funding passed. And so to solutions and better growth management businesses can do even more than individuals build our system, it really comes down to locally Do you feel like this program could strategies. is make those options accessible, to really build grown efforts having greater buy-in from the the culture around it. private sector, from our business community become an example for other Idaho In 2020, you’re going to see a new City and individuals in our community to work cities to adopt? Go mobility app, which we’re really excited So if you decide to bike to work and you work towards and want to have better options. It’s about, where for the first time you’ll be able someplace that doesn’t have bike lockers and I definitely think it is. Part of the reason we going to come at a little bit of a cost to us, but we to purchase and manage your transportation doesn’t have showers and doesn’t promote it, started in downtown Boise is that’s where we have to be that solution if we want it. fares and passes in one app so you can really then if you’ve never biked to work, you don’t feel are the most dense and that’s where the most get around via one app on your phone. Our as comfortable if those facilities aren’t available. Where does your funding come options are now. But it’s a strategy that can be first phase of that is going to come out July or The same with public transit. You promote those utilized in other cities and can grow, whether it’s things internally. Where we work, we spend so from? August time period. That should make it even grown uniquely with several different entities or easier for people to choose an option besides much of our time. That culture is important, So it will come from a lot of different we grow out to cover other areas. I think that we just their car. and that culture can definitely influence our sources. For our first two years, those five make it easier. commute options.

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An aerial view of Indian Creek Plaza during the Sunnyslope Wine Festival. Photo courtesy of Destination Caldwell

Buried treasure found in Caldwell’s Indian Creek

By Mary Ann Reuter Special to Idaho Business Review Indian Creek Plaza’s popular ice skating rink. Photo courtesy of A tributary of the Boise River, Indian Creek lay buried beneath Destination Caldwell concrete in Caldwell since the early 1950s. That is until 2009, when a revitalization project to restore Indian Creek exposed the waterway to daylight again and introduced suspended bridges, walkways and picnic areas to its banks. As the free-flowing stream and six acres of green space came alive, so did the once stagnant City of Caldwell. With the addition of Indian Creek Plaza in 2018, a $7.3 million economic development project in the downtown retail district, the lost treasure of Indian Creek was found. Seattle-based design firm GGLO intended to create a vibrant, livable space for families and the community in downtown Caldwell. Financed by the city and urban renewal funds, the result is a 57,000-square-foot public plaza with a performance stage, ice skating ribbon and rink, gas-powered fire pits and interactive water features, including fountains and a splash pad. Based on a downtown plaza model that helped revitalize Rapid City, South Dakota, Caldwell city leaders first designated a site for the future Indian Creek Plaza at the corner of Kimball Avenue and Arthur Street in 2014. The rest is history in the making.

Treasure Valley treasure Mayor Garrett Nancolas is fond of calling Caldwell the Treasure of the Valley. “The plaza is the centerpiece of the downtown Caldwell Caldwell as Idaho’s premier gathering place. she said. “It’s a great destination for fun activities without the big revitalization project and a destination point for the region,” Nancolas And reclaim it has. The downtown square has added dozens crowds often found in Boise.” said when Indian Creek Plaza officially opened in July 2018. of new businesses since the plaza opened, including restaurants, Together, the plaza and park were projected to generate $2.7 boutiques, a coffee shop, bookstore, doughnut shop and art Attractive business incentives studio. Two blocks east, an11-screen movie theater opened in million in revenue for Caldwell and attract 330,000 visitors in the Much of the flourishing economic development has to do 2018. Two blocks west, the Treasure Valley Community College first year alone. Owned by the City of Caldwell and managed by with the creek and park redesign, according to the Urban Land satellite center welcomed students in 2010. Destination Caldwell, the plaza hosted 315 events and activities Institute. New grade and flow adjustments to the waterway, Once considered a ghost town, Caldwell is experiencing a in 2019, everything from concerts, farmers markets, holiday part of the Indian Creek daylighting effort, convinced the cultural renaissance. celebrations, fitness classes, outdoor games and brew fests. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2009 to The Winter Wonderland Festival illuminates the plaza with a downgrade the flood risk in downtown Caldwell. This led to million holiday lights that sparkle off the creek. The ice ribbon Destination: Caldwell reduced insurance premiums and enhanced property values for and skating rink alone attracted 35,000 visitors last year. And Mollie Carroll, an organizer for the Boise Baby Boomers Meetup businesses in the city’s core. event organizers continue to expand the annual Indian Creek group, invited her winter walking group to Caldwell in early March. In addition, a city-funded incentive package was introduced Festival, a fall tradition made official in 2003 when a public After coffee and conversation at Flying M Coffee Shop, they enjoyed in 2008 for new downtown development, explained Dean sculpture was dedicated at the first pedestrian bridge. a pleasant walk along the full length of the greenbelt. Next was a Gunderson in his article “Daylighting Caldwell: Urban renewal movie at the Luxe Reel Theatre, followed by dinner at Amano, a transforms an asphalt floodway.” This included a 60% cost-share Reclaiming Downtown downtown restaurant known for its handcrafted Mexican cuisine. for downtown streetscape improvements, a new transportation Keri Smith-Sigman, Caldwell native and CEO of Destination The outing included a few surprises for Carroll, including the grant, downtown Wi-Fi system, police bike patrol rotation and Caldwell, said the plaza’s design and atmosphere draw on the area’s discovery of a peaceful meditation garden at the west end of the a potential reduction in permitting costs for green buildings agricultural history, with elements linking the Sunnyslope Wine greenbelt. certified by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Trail and farm-to-fork food tradition. Destination Caldwell is a “Downtown Caldwell has been renovated so beautifully, and (LEED). nonprofit organization dedicated to reclaiming and rebranding I wanted to check out some of the entertainment offered there,” In 2016 the Caldwell Urban Renewal Agency adopted a April 2020 | idahobusinessreview.com| SQUARE FEET quarterly IDAHO BUSINESS REVIEW publication | 7

The Idaho Business Review asked a few of the state’s most prominent business leaders this question: “What downtown amenities have you MY TWO CENTS seen outside Idaho that you would love to have here?”

Aside from the obvious like . I’ve always thought a “ streetcars“ and riverwalks, I’d like “In larger cities that perhaps don’t small“ business food court I love the street dances to see more monuments and enjoy our climate and seasons, I market would be an awesome that most small Southern historical interest markers. These do love skybridges between high- addition to our downtown towns have. Hay bales in front points of interest can be used as rise buildings. Minneapolis and area. These kinds of year- Dallas come to mind immediately of the stores to sit on, streets a way to educate visitors and the round markets similar to blocked off with a band, all public, and I think we are missing with their intertwining networks of connections between skyscrapers Reading Terminal Market ages hanging out, tons of a chance to celebrate many of giving a great sense of urbanity and end up being fantastic food and shopping. It’s a very the things that make our cities cultural hubs and promote great. These types of spots in energy. I would love to see Boise heartland ‘Hope Floats’ kind downtown grow to the point where tourism. Special asterisk...all of feeling. I miss those a ton!” a downtown are also gathering places that draw people in, we could incorporate skybridges the shop stalls and vendors and they give a place more into our downtown urban fabric.” need to be local businesses. meaning.” No Pizza Huts.” — Nathan W. Murray, economic — Nick Crabbs, co-chair of Boise Startup — Jessi Roberts, founder of Cheekys — Penny Dennis, business development and development director at City of Twin Falls preconstruction manager at Layton Construction Week and partner at Vynyl

facade improvement program that matched 35% of the cost of traffic from neighboring communities. By investing in itself, upper-story residential and office space may soon add to the renovation, improving the appearance of buildings surrounding Caldwell has become a treasure for its own residents and future city’s appeal. the plaza. In some cases, that meant restoring brick and sandstone generations. Downtown Caldwell is open for business. buildings from the early 1900s to reveal their historic charm, The main goal was always to bring Caldwell residents back to Note: Destination Caldwell has created a webpage on temporary even as the plaza itself was being constructed. a downtown they could be proud of, according to Smith-Sigman. business closures, food pickup/delivery options and online shopping “Instead of shopping, dining and playing in other communities, due to COVID-19. Visit: https://www.destinationcaldwell.com/ Hometown Proud we want people to have the opportunity to stay in their hometown.” buy-local-caldwell So as Caldwell celebrates its homecoming, its downtown “Daylighting Caldwell: Urban renewal transforms an asphalt While Caldwell has become the Treasure Valley’s newest revitalization continues. If recruitment efforts are successful, floodway” by Dean Gunderson, appears in “River by Design: Essays destination spot, the impact of Indian Creek Plaza and restoration a boutique hotel, wine tasting rooms, art galleries, specialty on the Boise River, 1915-2015,” published by Boise State University of the city’s signature stream is not limited to attracting visitor shops, a full-service bike shop, business innovation center and as part of the Investigate Boise Community Research Series. Custom Solutions Built For Your Needs

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Don Kostelec would like to put every mayor in Idaho in a wheelchair. Not permanently, mind you. Just long enough to traverse their cities and see how inaccessible their downtowns are to the disabled. “It changes their perspective,” he said. Kostelec’s company, Vetruvian Planning, has been working with a variety of Idaho cities, ranging from Ammon to Twin Falls, over the past couple of years to help them make their An example of the construction barriers that downtowns more accessible. warn and guide pedestrians, including the “We’ve been doing work statewide for the disabled. Photo courtesy of Guho Corp. Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, aimed at increasing physical activity,” he said. “We’re looking at the walkability of the system and accessibility from the disability perspective is part of that.” The company helps the cities develop plans that look for problem areas then figure out a strategy to fix them. Any municipality or agency with more than 50 employees has to do an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) self- assessment and transition plan, Kostelec said. Idaho downtowns like Preston’s are looking for ways to make themselves more accessible to Such plans can cost $10,000 to $15,000 in the everyone, including the disabled. Photo courtesy of Don Kostelec case of a small city, ranging up to $30,000 for a medium-sized city like Lewiston and hundreds of thousands of dollars for a major city such as Boise, Kostelec said. The plans consider factors such as curb cuts for wheelchair access, access to the crosswalk pushbutton, hallway widths Mountain Home updated its sidewalks in buildings, availability of ramps, access to as part of its downtown revitalization, park playgrounds and picnic tables, access to eliminating cracks and leaving wide space. elevators and bathroom design. Photo courtesy of Mountain Home It’s not just physical problems but policies as well, Kostelec said. complete next year, said Ryan Head, planning “Nearly every city code says the owners supervisor. Meridian’s corridor project, which are responsible for clearing snow from the covers both sidewalk and curb improvements, sidewalk,” he said. “Are you enforcing that? If has been underway for several years and is not, why?” scheduled to be completed through 2023. During “Snowmageddon” in 2018, people Kuna, which has been updating its downtown were waiting for buses in the middle of the core, is partnering on accessibility as well, street because snowplows were blocking ramps This is how 16th and Grove looked before and after ACHD repaired it. Photo courtesy of ACHD and will be completing Main Street this year, and putting snow on the sidewalk, while owners he said. Downtown Eagle will be upgrading as outreach to the cities and counties at their allowing more space for maneuvering. Every weren’t clearing their sidewalks, he said. four or five streets by 2023 by the state conferences. We also fund the Community corner features ADA-compliant pedestrian Actually fixing the problems is another story. highway, he said. Garden City is working on Challenge grant program that funds quick ramps. The lane reduction is designed to slow The transition plan typically lays out 20 years a neighborhood plan to identify priorities, he action projects that can spark change in the traffic through the area and make it easier and of investments to upgrade priority routes to be added. community. We have funded several programs safer for all pedestrians to cross the road in compliant, Kostelec said. As long as the planned “In the next five years, we will have done all in Idaho that benefit downtown areas such as in our downtown. Accessible crossing signals add repair is in the transition plan, even if it hasn’t the downtowns in the county,” he said. Driggs, Victor and Caldwell.” further to crossing safety. In addition to this, been fixed, that helps protect the city in case of Projects are funded out of the general fund, Ironically, one of the biggest offenders in we are adding a number of accessible parking lawsuits, he said. Head said, adding that while the organization accessibility challenges can be construction, spaces.” “People may still have a crash, but if you’ve does have a $1.5 million set-side for improving which might even be in the process of trying For funding, Mountain Home worked with identified it, even if you haven’t fixed it because sidewalk accessibility those tend to be out of to improve accessibility. Watchdogs like Clancy the Idaho Transportation Department and it’s in year four, that’s at least legally defensible,” downtown. Anderson, a bicyclist, take pictures of hazards the Elmore County Urban Renewal Agency, he said. “It’s just part of every project we do,” he said. and send them to the construction companies Freeman said. For planning, the city worked with “It’s not a special pot of money.” organizations such as Idaho State Independent Disabled advocacy or cities. For example, every time ACHD does a “I ride my bike every day from the North End Living Council and Northwest ADA Center. project, it evaluates the existing pedestrian What’s leading the movement to make to across from City Hall,” Anderson said. “On “Speaking anecdotally, we have seen increased ramp to ensure that it meets all the standards, downtowns more accessible? Increasingly, your bike, it’s easy to see things, stop and take usage from the accessible community,” Freeman said Rachel Chipman, accessibility compliance people from various communities, ranging from a picture.” said. coordinator. disability advocates to bicyclists, are clamoring ACHD has gotten better about making it Now, Mountain Home is working on further “If it is not compliant, then we would for change. easier for the disabled to tell when a sidewalk is accessibility improvements, Freeman said. reconstruct the ramp,” she said, noting that, For example, the Idaho Access Project closed, Anderson said. “We have placed benches at regular intervals for example, ACHD installed crosswalk formed in October 2018 to help create accessible and included in-ground landscaping between “They used to just close sidewalks without pushbuttons with audible and tactile functions communities in Idaho, starting with Boise. the pedestrian walkway and traffic to enhance detectable barriers,” he said. at a number of intersections that lacked them. “I am blind, and my two colleagues use the aesthetic value of the area and the feeling He also praised companies like Guho Corp. It is part of ACHD’s complete streets policy wheelchairs,” said Dianna Willis, co-founding of safety and separation all pedestrians will feel that are using “channelizers” to move pedestrian to make its network accessible regardless of how board member. “We had a strong desire to when they visit,” he said. “Our street furnishing traffic safely. citizens get around, Head said. approach the challenges we face every day in a areas will not impede ADA walkways.” Other offenders include delivery trucks that “We make improvements with every project,” different way. It’s a more positive, proactive way In the case of Ada County cities, the Ada park on sidewalks or across crosswalks and he said. “We see them as vital.” than fighting each barrier as it comes.” scooters parked across ADA spots, Anderson County Highway District, which governs roads The group started out working in the Barber said. and sidewalks, is leading the effort, partnering Accessibility helps everyone Valley neighborhood of Boise for six months or “Being more predictable — whether you have with the cities in the county. The district is so in 2019. a disability or don’t — everyone needs to be responsible for on the order of 30,000 street Critics sometimes say that few pedestrians “We do listening sessions and focus groups able to cross and walk to wherever they’re going corners, Kostelec said. or bicyclists are using sidewalks, but they fail to to understand what the challenges are in efficiently,” he said. In Boise, for example, ACHD cataloged street realize that part of the reason is the disconnected that specific neighborhood and options for corners from 2004 to 2005, Kostelec said. nature of the network for non-car uses, Kostelec improving accessibility,” Willis said. How cities and agencies are “If you go around downtown Boise today, said. “If our road system was as disconnected as The group completed its report in October responding almost every street corner has a curb ramp and has been presenting its findings to various and yellow truncated dome pads,” Kostelec our walking and biking, few people would be groups since then, she said, adding that she Because a number of Idaho cities are working said. “That came from a project between Boise, driving, but we make sure that’s connected,” also served on Boise Mayor Lauren McLean’s on revitalizing their downtowns in general, CCDC (the Capital City Development Corp., he pointed out. “We’ll get folks in the public transition committee on transportation for improving accessibility is often one part of the city’s urban renewal agency) and ACHD, sector who ask, ‘Why do we have to do this for everyone. the effort. For example, Mountain Home has where we pooled our money from different the disabled?’ If we build a sidewalk network Another organization that works with taken this approach, said Michael Freeman, grants.” that someone in a wheelchair or who’s blind cities on downtown accessibility is AARP. The communications director, in an email message. That project cost from $250,000 to $300,000, can navigate, that means parents pushing a organization serves on the advisory board “Some of the features that increase safety he said, noting that rebuilding a street corner stroller can navigate the ramps. A system that’s of the Idaho Preventive Health and Health and accessibility for all are new wider sidewalks typically costs $2,000 to $3,000. accessible for the disabled is accessible for Services Block grant, which has sponsored and a reduction from three to two lanes of “It can get complicated,” said Kostelec, everyone.” numerous walk and park audits throughout southbound traffic,” Freeman said. “The who used to work for ACHD. “There’s stuff Freeman, Mountain Home communications the state looking at transportation options sidewalks we replaced were much narrower and underground and things that are a hundred director, noted that the city’s downtown is and pedestrian safety, as well as on Meridian’s were cracking and heaving, which could have years old. It’s different from a developer in more accessible to everyone, but that is not an comprehensive plan, said Francoise Cleveland, caused problems for anyone using a wheelchair, Meridian on bare ground who’s wiping the slate unintended consequence. advocacy director. walker or even a cane. The new sidewalks clean.” “It was part of our vision from the earliest “We have done presentations on livable are smooth, level and wider, creating more ACHD has been working on Boise for the stages of planning through the execution communities at different conferences as well separation between pedestrians and traffic and past six years, a project that is scheduled to be phase,” Freeman said. April 2020 | idahobusinessreview.com| SQUARE FEET quarterly IDAHO BUSINESS REVIEW publication | 9

East Idaho State Fair Mural in Blackfoot. Photos by Catie Clark All four sides of the Blackfoot Canvas building have murals. Blackfoot murals a draw for locals, visitors By Catie Clark tour through time starting at the Potato Idaho Business Review Museum, where each block of downtown was dressed up as one era of Blackfoot’s history. A small investment in outdoor art has paid big By the summer of 2018, once-vacant store dividends for one Eastern Idaho community’s windows were now filled with historically- downtown. themed artwork or mannequins dressed in “Blackfoot has tried several things to vintage clothing. Mint-condition antique cars of spruce up downtown and revive its downtown the appropriate time period occupied downtown businesses, and the real stand-out success of all parking spaces, and eight murals centered on a of those has been the murals,” said Kurt Hibbert, time slice in the 20th century filled once-empty who handles economic development for the city. walls on the sides of downtown buildings, Murals at the Eastern Idaho State Fair and the City Hall mural in Blackfoot. Rockwood Pharmacy mural, Blackfoot, Idaho. including city hall. Blackfoot Canvas building have been fixtures like Nonpareil potato packers, Basic American potato. Since then, the murals in the heart of for over 20 years, and more recently Blackfoot Foods, BioLogiQ, which makes plastic out Like many other downtown districts left downtown have become a draw. Visitors to added a set of eight downtown murals created of potatoes, and the aptly-named potato behind when retail moved away to big box the Potato Museum are often drawn into the between 2017 to 2018. equipment manufacturer Spudnik. stores and more modern strip malls next to the adjacent blocks downtown to look at them. The The city of approximately 14,000 halfway Unsurprisingly, Blackfoot lays claim to the interstate, Blackfoot’s downtown has seen better development board now owns a trolley bus that between Pocatello and Idaho Falls is the title of “Potato Capital of the World.” The city days. The Blackfoot Downtown Development takes visitors on a tour of Blackfoot and stops at seat of Bingham County, which grows more is also the home of the Idaho Potato Museum, Board and the Blackfoot Urban Renewal Agency the murals. potatoes than any other county in the state. home of the world’s largest potato chip. In front decided to do something about it back in 2017. It is home to several potato-based businesses of the museum is the world’s largest baked As part of their effort, they created a walking See MURALS, page 10

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ISU Credit Union drive-thru mural in Blackfoot, Idaho. A number of Blackfoot residents queried by the Idaho Business Review said they thought the murals were a real asset to the city. Paul Loomis, owner of the Candy Jar, a candy and fudge shop across the street from the Potato Downtown Bread Company mural, Blackfoot, Idaho. Museum, was Blackfoot’s mayor when the mural project was approved. According to Loomis, a designer in St. George, Utah, named Lyn Leasure worked with Rexburg-based artist Jon Hanley to create the murals. Leasure designed the murals to fit into the idea of walking through time. “Leasure went to the Potato Museum and the Bingham County Historical Society and found old photos of downtown at different times in history,” Loomis explained. “He then passed his research on to Hanley who used it to create the murals, often showing a business that once Astronaut on the Pacific Street Alley, existed where a mural was placed.” Blackfoot, Idaho. One example is a mural on the side of the building where the Candy Jar is now located. return on money that Blackfoot ever invested in It depicts the Rockwood’s Pharmacy, a our downtown.” business that once occupied the space. Details Local reaction to the murals from business such as posters and posted bills depicted owners has also been positive. As the late Travis in the Rockwood Pharmacy mural and the Pittman, original co-owner of the Downtown Attitudez Salon mural on Judicial Ave. in Blackfoot, Idaho. Tumbleweed Saloon mural across the street Bread Company told the Morning News in 2018: are based on advertisements preserved in the “I serve on the City’s Downtown Development archives of the historical society. Board, and these murals have helped my “It took just under a year for Hanley to business tremendously.” finish all the murals,” Hibbert related. “I think An interesting footnote to Blackfoot’s murals they look great, and they bring people into is the inclusion of four of the city’s murals as downtown who otherwise would not have taken “portals” to be captured in the international the time to walk around and look around. And capture-the-flag style smart-phone game called they really add to the ambiance of downtown. Ingress, and are also Pokemon Gyms in the It looks so much happier and brighter than it Pokemon Go game, both of which are products Collecting Americana Antique Store mural in Swing dancing mural on Broadway in did even just five years ago. It’s some of the best of the gaming company Niantic Labs. Blackfoot, Idaho. Blackfoot, Idaho. 2020

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What used to be a parking lot is about to become a new city park in the heart of downtown Boise. The Boise Parks & Recreation Department will add the downtown park plus another just west of Surprise Valley. Construction is planned for this summer. The city’s Parks & Rec Commission approved the two new parks at its end-of-January meeting. The downtown project will create a park at the corner of 11th and Bannock Streets. The park will be located between the new 10-story office building currently under construction on Idaho Street and the Boise Plaza Building. It doesn’t have an official name yet, but the working name for the project is Westside Urban Park. Above: The site for Boise’s half-block-wide Westside Urban Park will be “We view this project as a place-making effort between the sidewalk on Bannock Street in the foreground and office for the westside downtown neighborhood as building under construction in the background. Photo by Catie Clark well as an economic development strategy,” said Right: Bowler Park project map. Courtesy of Boise Parks & Recreation. Doug Woodruff, project manager for the park at the Capital City Development Corporation, friendly features. It will also include a dry fog is partnering to share the City of Boise’s partner in the development machine and urban artwork by Guggenheim facilities between the of the park. “We see this park as bringing in Fellow Matthew Mazzotta (see p. 13). two properties, including people and bringing in development that this The park just to the west of Surprise Valley parking and pedestrian area wouldn’t have normally seen.” will be on a 24-acre parcel donated to the city by trail access. Boise-based developer Rafanelli & Nahas Beth and Bruce Bowler in 1995. It is adjacent to The park will be named is the third partner in the creation of the new Eagle Christian Church on S. Surprise Way. Half after the Bowlers. It will downtown park. The firm holds a 100-year lease of the acreage is an undevelopable sagebrush feature a dog park, a for the property where the park will be sited. steppe. The other 12 acres will become groomed disc golf course, natural “We’re giving up a lot of revenue, millions park grounds with a simple design vetted by the terrain gardens, natural of dollars, by not having a parking lot in local community. terrain and tradition that location,” remarked Scott Schoenherr of “We held an open house on Sept. 25 to get playgrounds, bocce ball Rafanelli & Nahas, “but that side of town needs public input on their likes and dislikes for park courts and on-demand is historically low. some green space. We thought if there were a amenities,” said Toby Norton of Boise Parks & mister poles. According to Bonnie Shelton of Parks & park in the middle of buildings that would make Recreation. “What people liked was a passive The Parks & Recreation Department has also Recreation, the department is still ironing out for a nicer area and add some open space, which natural concept for the park, which preserved added software that is designed to be mobile some minor bugs, but the reservation system is the park would provide.” the open character it currently has.” device-friendly, which the previous software up and working, including a feature that allows The park will also be along one of Boise’s Parks & Recreation also consulted with Eagle package was not. It was installed on Super Bowl golfers to reserve tee times on the city’s public designated bikeways and will include bike- Christian Church, with whom the department Sunday when use of the department’s webpages golf courses.

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Agency Name Key Executive Address Phone | Fax No. of Commercial Total Sq. Footage of Website Email Agents Listed Space Projects Include:

Colliers International Idaho Jim Shipman, Managing Partner | Market Leader 755 W. Front St., Ste. 300, Boise, ID 83702 P 208-345-9000 | F 208-387-0005 42 14,000,000 9th & Idaho Building - Office & Retail; Linder Village - Retail, Jackson Hole Junction in Idaho 1 www.colliers.com/idaho [email protected] Falls

TOK Commercial Real Estate Michael Ballantyne, Managing Partner 250 S. Fifth St., 2nd Floor, Boise, ID 83702 P 208-378-4600 | F 208-947-0869 28 12,521,000 11th & Idaho Boise Gateway Industrial Park Family Center @ Federal Way 2 www.tokcommercial.com [email protected]

Cushman & Wakefield Pacific Commercial Realty Advisors Tammy Cox, Senior Property Manager 999 W Main Street, STE 1300, Boise, ID 83702 P 208-287-9500 | F 208-287-9501 17 40,000,000 One Cap Center – 999 West Main, Boise Emerald Corp Park (5 Buildings on Emerald at 3 www.paccra.com [email protected] Benjamin For Sale & Lease) Karcher Marketplace (Former Karcher Mall)

Lee & Associates Idaho LLC Matt Mahoney, Managing Principal 802 W. Bannock St., 12th Floor, Boise, ID 83702 P 208-343-2300 | F 208-389-2088 15 - - 4 www.leeidaho.com [email protected]

Mark Bottles Real Estate Services Mark Bottles, Principal & Broker 839 S. Bridgeway Place, Eagle, ID 83616 P 208-377-5700 | F 208-377-0035 14 4,975,450 Meridian Crossroads, Eagle Island Marketplace, Pine 43 5 www.markbottles.com [email protected]

NAI Select Cathy Hamilton, Director of Property Management 5531 N. Glenwood St., Boise, ID 83714 P 208-338-5212 | F 208-338-9657 14 4257775 Boise Towne Square Centrepoint Marketplace Tech Lane Office Park www.naiselect.com [email protected]

KW COMMERCIAL Stacie States, President, Catharine Quinn, Designated Broker 1065 S. Allante Pl., Boise, ID 83709 P 208-672-9000 | F 208-672-9111 10 - - 6 www.kwcommercialidaho.com [email protected]

Coldwell Banker Commercial Tomlinson Bob Van Allen, President, designated broker, owner 1850 S. Eagle Rd., Ste. 100, Meridian, ID 83642 P 208-672-0447 8 - - 7 www.cbboise.com [email protected]

Murphy Business & Financial Rodney Wolfe, Broker & Principal 800 W Main St, Suite 1460, Boise, ID 83702 P 208.286.2300 | F 208.286.4448 8 - Business Sales www.murphybusinessboise.com [email protected]

Swope Investment Properties Mike Swope, Broker 1161 W. River St. Ste. 160, Boise, ID 83702 P 208-331-3531 8 - - swopeinvestmentproperties.com [email protected]

Intermountain Commercial Real Estate Gary Buentgen, SIOR, CCIM, Designated Broker//Principal 380 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Ste. 290, Boise, ID 83706 P 208-429-8603 | F 208-429-8604 7 350,000 Banner Bank Bown Crossing CrossPoint Northwest 8 www.icrellc.com [email protected]

Marcus & Millichap Paul Ryan, Broker of Record 800 W. Main St., Boise, ID 83702 P 208-401-9321 | F 208-401-9326 5 120000 Red Lion hotel Michigan apartments Amy mobile home park 9 www.marcusmillichap.com [email protected]

Michener Investments LLP Lawrence Ross, Broker/Owner 1412 W. Idaho, Ste. 110, Boise, ID 83702 P 208-336-3202 | F 208-336-3558 5 100,000 Southern Springs, Meridian, ID South Point Office Park, Boise, ID Clearwater Plaza, Caldwell, www.michenerinvestments.com [email protected] ID

Boise Valley Commercial Real Estate LLC Scott Nicholson, Owner 7241 Potomac Dr., Boise, ID 83704 P 208-890-3939 | F 208-248-2250 3 - Aspen West Meridian Business Incubator 10 www.bvcre.com [email protected]

Northwest Commercial Advisors licensed agents of Silvercreek Realty Group Jeffrey Hall, Principal 1099 S. Wells, Suite 200, Meridian, ID 83642 P 208-794-8020 | F 208-401-0481 3 11,900 Bown Crossing Retail, Caldwell Commons Retail and Victory Commons nwcommadv.com [email protected]

Paul Kenny & Matt Bogue Commercial RE Paul Kenny, Broker CCIM P.O. Box 5102, Ketchum, ID 83340 P 208-726-1918 | F 208-726-1990 3 48,000 Main Street, Hailey 5-Plex 400 East Av, Ketchum - Retail, Apartment, & Underground www.kenny-bogue.com [email protected] parking Airport Circle L.I. - Warehouse, Apartment, 7 Garage Units

Capital Commercial Properties LLC Robert Hildebran -, Boise, ID 83714 P (208) 343-8300 | F (208) 908-0844 2 - Represent buyers & tenants 11 www.capitalcommercialgroup.net [email protected]

Prime Commercial Real Estate Tim Graver, CCIM CPM Broker 1406 N. Main St., Ste. 215, Meridian, ID 83642 P 208-322-4900 | F 208-322-4488 2 700,000 - www.primeidaho.com [email protected]

Stark Accelerators Commercial Real Estate Ken Stark, Ken Stark, President s 800 Main Street, Suite 1460 , Boise , ID 83702 P 2087222400 2 856,000 Multiple industrial, office and land development projects. Stark.realestate [email protected]

SVN | Intermountain Investments Inc. Heidi Mickelson, Managing Director P.O. Box 2590; 160 Second St. East, Suites 219 & 216, Ketchum, ID 83340 P 208-861-9982 | F 208-726-4021 2 - - svnii.com [email protected]

Tenant Realty Advisors Bill Beck, Founding Principal 950 W. Bannock St., Ste. 410, Boise, ID 83702 P 208-333-7050 | F 208-333-7070 2 - - www.tenantrealtyadvisors.com [email protected]

DK Commercial Debbie Martin, Principal/Broker 1880 S. Cobalt Point Way, Ste. 300, Meridian, ID 83642 P 208-955-1014 1 - Grandview Marketplace 1505 S. Eagle Rd. Meridian 1509 Tyrell Lane Boise 660 E. Franklin 12 www.dkcommercial.com [email protected] Rd. Meridian Executive Park Offices 1074 S. Cole Road

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By Catie Clark poop lamp guy? Idaho Business Review Before that, I did a project called the Busycle. It was about looking at public transportation in a different way. Public Matthew Mazzotta has built a national reputation with quirky transportation is always planned from the top down: who gets urban art pieces. Now he’s been selected to create a piece for the a bus route or who gets a subway. We wanted to make a piece of new Westside Urban Park public transportation that was built from the bottom up instead: in downtown Boise, which powered by the people, built by the people and going where the will begin construction this people want to go. You see them around now as tourist attractions summer (see p. 11). where everybody’s pedaling. But the (original) Busycle was years Often described as a social ago before all that became part of the street culture. practice artist, Mazzotta That project got a lot of press, and everybody then asked me the received a B.F.A. from the same question: How did I feel about being known as the Busycle School of the Art Institute guy? And then it became: How did I feel about being known as of Chicago, an M.S. from the dog poop guy? … I’ve had a couple of names. I’ll probably the Massachusetts Institute have a few more. It won’t end with being the dog poop guy. of Technology’s Program in The Cloud House where the power from the rocking chairs Art, Culture and Technology releases rain from the cloud onto the tin roof. Photos courtesy of Matthew Mazzotta and a Loeb Fellowship from Just about every one of your projects had some Harvard University. He is kind of environmental or functional theme to it. Is currently a Guggenheim everything you do like this? Fellow. Matthew Mazzotta I would say that I’m an activist using artistic sensibility. … His prior artistic pieces There’s always an underlying message or underlying experience. include the Busycle, which was It could be an environmental theme or it could be about social designed as a passenger-powered urban transit project. Various issues, but that’s always the crux of it. It’s about bringing ideas into Busycle spin-offs are now commonly seen around the country, the public discourse. How do you get conversations started about including one in Boise that tours the pubs in downtown. the world we live in now? With all the polarization, how do you Other works include the Cloud House, which creates the sound get ideas to seem fresh again? How do you get people that usually of rain on a tin roof using user-powered rocking chairs, and Park wouldn’t participate to start speaking together? That’s what I want Spark, which digests dog poop into methane to power street to do. It’s exciting to provoke the conversation. lamps in a public park. The Park Spark earned Mazzotta the label “the man who made the dog poop lamp.” A Guggenheim fellowship is a big deal. How did The Idaho Business Review interviewed Mazzotta when he was in Boise on Jan. 21 to talk to City of Boise representatives and the you feel about it? Do you feel it added anything to public about creating art for the new downtown park that will your art practice? be built at the southwest corner of the Bannock and 11th Street I function a lot outside of the art system. I am usually asked intersection. directly by communities to work with them. The art world is not The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. The Park Spark, which digests dog poop into methane to How do you feel about getting branded as the dog See MAZZOTTA, page 14 power street lamps in a public park.

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MAZZOTTA Continued from 13 really there. Often these communities just say, ‘We saw what you skills. The artwork I made on my time off is what I used to apply did. We’ve shown it at our city hall or in a community meeting, to get into the Art Institute of Chicago. That’s where I got my and we want to work with you.’ undergrad (degree). Then I went out on my own for a while and Because I am mostly outside that system, I was very impressed did carpentry and some other things. Eventually, I applied to that the Guggenheim Foundation would care about the work I was MIT, to their visual arts program where I did my master’s. doing. Also it shocked me a little bit. Everybody was so happy for me because everyone knows that name. It reached the New York You are doing a lot of social activism things in Atlanta. Times, and people were telling me and all my family, my town and Yeah. It was the first time I had seen the homeless situation. It people I know. Guggenheim surprised me with the award; but also, I was just so shocking to me that we can walk by these people. We was really surprised by people’s reactions to it. It was a nice surprise. didn’t have that in my small town at all. I was like, wow, this is crazy. What are we going to do? So I got involved in some groups How has getting the Guggenheim helped your (addressing homelessness) ... That was definitely the start of it all. reach? Has it opened up new venues for you or I saw that I had a privilege to be able to contribute. I thought created a greater demand? I could make a difference and eventually got into protesting. But I’ve not noticed anything, but that’s not to say there is no HARM TO TABLE is a traveling table that serves food made (later) I thought there was an even better way, and that’s where I difference. I mean, my goal is to grow my (art) practice every year. of local resources that will be in major decline or extinct over became an artist doing these socially engaged works. the next 20-40 years due to the changing climate. I think in some ways it is helping me by putting me on different people’s radars. That’s a good thing for an artist. Absolutely. world. I remember, for me, it was all about art and skateboarding. So how has your perspective on social activism My parents were like, ‘You’re definitely gonna go to college,’ but it changed since then? Where did you grow up and how did you get was my mom who figured it out. She found a liberal arts school I made a direct challenge to myself: Instead of going out on started in your career? paired with an art school, the Art Institute of Atlanta. The liberal the street with a protest sign, I thought, how can I reach someone arts college was the Oglethorpe University. She said, ‘I think this with an idea that I’ve thought about a lot? How do can I transmit I grew up in northern New York in a small town called Canton. is going to be great because you want to go somewhere warm so that in two seconds? How can I get people to engage? It’s very It used to have a large dairy industry and a lot of farms — more you can skateboard. This has a dual degree program. Go there.’ cows than people at one point. It has one university and a college difficult. So I started going into it as artwork … I think that art plays a huge role here. as well, and the town next door also has a college. So it’s like a So you went there? weird place. It’s 18 miles from the Canadian border. The closest Art is how you can make something into such a spectacle that city is Ottawa. It’s in the northern foothills of the Adirondacks. I went there one year and dropped out. Then I traveled around people who have problems with each other end up sharing in the the United States in a van, visiting everywhere. Eventually same space or having an experience together. With art, you can So how did you end up going from a little everybody looked at me and said, ‘What are you going to do?’ No make people so curious that they can build community or move one was happy when I dropped out, but I think it was a good move together on an issue. So that’s been my whole strategy: If you got northern New York town to Atlanta? because it gave me more experience. I took a job doing welding an issue, how do you present it? I think that art plays a large role When I was a kid, skateboarding was the greatest thing in the and fabrication. It kind of supercharged me, and I actually got in how people can digest an issue. April 2020 | idahobusinessreview.com| SQUARE FEET quarterly IDAHO BUSINESS REVIEW publication | 15 Nampa Development Corporation’s bond refinancing helps it to save almost $5 million

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Just like refinancing a mortgage can save a homeowner money, refinancing municipal bonds can save a city or other municipal organization money. In the case of the Nampa Development Corp. (NDC), the city’s urban renewal agency, that amounted to almost $5 million. The organization, which is staffed by the city, recently refinanced two bonds that it used to pay for the construction of the Nampa Public Library, which opened in 2015, and the Hugh Nichols Public Safety Building, which opened in 2011. The NDC board looked at refinancing the bonds as part of the goal of getting the debt paid off as quickly as possible, said Robyn Sellers, assistant director for economic development. Paying off the bonds more quickly means the agency would pay less money in interest. First, the board looked just at trying to pay the existing bonds — issued in 2010 and 2013 — more quickly, but then decided to issue a request for proposal (RFP) to look for lower interest rates as well as more flexible terms, Sellers said. That also required hiring “bond counsel,” Sellers said. “If you’re going to refinance, you have to be aware of tax laws,” she added. Originally the bonds were held by D.L. Evans Bank. In addition to D.L. Evans, NDC received responses to its RFP from four more: KeyBank, Library Square in Nampa is a mixed-use project built by Gardner Co. in 2015. It includes the 62,000-square-foot public library, more than Mountain West, Zions Bank and US Bank. 13,000 square feet of office and retail space, a 300-stall parking garage and a public plaza. Photo by Pete Grady Eventually, the organization decided to go with Zions Bank because it offered lower 2027 and 2028 respectively, compared with the It also doesn’t affect the amount of property isn’t one of them.” interest rates as well as more flexible terms for original dates of 2030 and 2031 — NDC will taxes that residents pay, Sellers said. However, because NDC won’t have to pay the prepayment, such as not imposing a prepayment have saved $4.8 million in interest, Sellers said. “I live in Nampa,” she explained. “My taxes additional $4.8 million in interest, it will have penalty, which Sellers said is very common in “That doesn’t mean cash in hand,” she said. “It go to eight agencies. One is urban renewal. You access to those funds for other urban renewal bonds. essentially means the urban renewal district will would go to paying seven. It doesn’t mean that projects, such as improving sewer and water By the time the bonds are paid off — by pay that sooner, so there will be less payment.” you’re paying less taxes, just that urban renewal infrastructure, Sellers said.

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