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Developers Plan More Commercial Projects at Eagle Road and Pine Avenue, Meridian

Posted on: Monday, 1 August 2005, 03:00 CDT

Developers plan more commercial projects at Eagle Road and Pine Avenue, Meridian.

Ron Van Auker, a Meridian-based developer, plans office, manufacturing and retail buildings on 34 acres in the southeast quadrant, also to feature a previously announced Jacksons convenience store. Commercial Court would be extended north to the traffic signal at Pine.

At Eagle & Pine Crossing at the northeast corner, Boise-based Rocky Mountain Management & Development secured commitments for a Metro Express Car Wash and a 6,000-square-foot Carrabba's Italian Grill restaurant, said Andy Simonds, real estate vice president for Rocky Mountain. Washington Trust Bank and the Ram Restaurant & Brewery anchor the 11-acre development.

We still are entertaining additional restaurant, retail and office users, he said. We've got some tentative plans for a 12,000- square-foot retail building.

People have come to realize this is the crosshairs of the Treasure Valley, the absolute center, Simonds said.

Late last year, Graye Wolfe and Joe Stafford of Ten Mile Development LLC announced plans for more than 600,000 square feet of retail and office space in the southwest quadrant of Eagle and Pine.

Pine dead-ends just west of the Blue Cross of Idaho campus built in 1997 in the northwest quadrant. Dennis Baker intends to extend Pine west to Locust Grove Road as part of the 120-acre Pinebridge mixed-use project he plans south of Fairview Avenue. No timetables are set.

Planners say extending Pine would relieve Eagle Road congestion. The Ada County Highway District recently designated Pine a 'minor arterial.'

The impact-fee situation needs clarity in our minds, Baker said. All we are waiting for is a tenant or someone who has the need for us to get to the point of impetus to start working on the road project.

Traffic on Eagle Road from Franklin Road north - past Pine - to Fairview Avenue increased by 26.7 percent between 1999 and 2004, a published report said. In 2002, just over 44,000 vehicles traveled that segment daily.

The Idaho Transportation Department plans Eagle Road / Idaho 55 flow improvements including bus pullouts and medians with openings at key intersections, the report said.

ACHD is widening Franklin and Ustick roads near Eagle Road, and plans a Locust Grove Road overpass across Interstate 84 as an alternative to the Eagle overpass. Construction is slated to start early next year.

(Copyright 2005 Dolan Media Newswires)

Source: Idaho Business Review, The

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