More news in this weeks Boise Weekly------a few points form the article are copied below.
http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/sta...nt?oid=1483236
On a recent January morning, a group of volunteers gathered outside of Knock 'Em Dead Dinner Theater's former home on Ninth and Broad streets. Current cast members, season ticket holders and executive board members hoisted furniture, costumes and props into a fleet of vehicles before departing for the nonprofit theater's new location in the aging Parkcenter Mall.
Jack's Urban Meeting Place, or JUMP, is the Simplot family's proposed park/art studio space/concert facility/tractor museum/J.R. Simplot corporation headquarters/playland that will occupy four-blocks west of BODO--property that includes the buildings that formerly housed both the Emerald Club and Knock 'Em Dead. Though J.R. Simplot Company spokesman David Cuoio said they're still hammering out details, working with ACHD on permits before heading back to the city's design review board, things are progressing with considerable speed. They hope to break ground in late summer, said Cuoio, and if everything goes according to plan, JUMP will be up and hopping 24 to 30 months later. But before any of this can happen, the buildings that housed KED and the Emerald Club--now silent spaces that once rang out with Evita and Madonna--must first be bulldozed.
"I suspect a lot of people are expecting massive impressive demolitions like they've seen in Las Vegas. That's not going to be the case; it's going to be pretty low-key," said Cuoio. "I don't know exactly what the process is, but it's not going to be anything dramatic, and I think we anticipate that happening sometime later this month or early in March. It's fairly soon."
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