New-home building is booming in Idaho, and it's about to boom even more. The Idaho Statesman reports:
Construction could begin as early as this fall on a massive housing development that will add more than 2,000 homes in Southwest Boise.
The Locale subdivision, previously known as Syringa Valley, is planned for 600 acres on both sides of West Lake Hazel Road between Cole and Orchard streets. It is being developed by Corey Barton Homes.
Locale will be the largest project for the Meridian company, Idaho’s largest home builder. Also known as CBH Homes, it builds about 1,000 homes a year.
Crews are working to blast rock and lava at the site and to install sewer lines. Company President Corey Barton told the Idaho Statesman that he’d hoped to begin construction this summer, but the wet spring has pushed work back and it’s likely it will be fall before houses start going up.
