Boise: 8th & Main Tower/Zions Bank Idaho HQ: 323' and 18 Floors

[livedowntown]

I never comment on this thread but I like to follow it. It's exciting to get a new tower no mater where you live. I thought I would interject here on the current topic. Usually I don't like pedestrian malls (closing the street to cars) because planners and officials try to use them to draw in pedestrians and business. Take a dying street and try to make it busy. They usually fail because they isolate the businesses already along the street limiting exposure and name recognition. Beyond that, people are not going to walk down a street just because it was made to walk down. There has to be a real sustainable draw.

That area on 8th however is already a draw. This is an instance where it might work really well because it is already filled with people. I would caution making the pedestrian only section as short as possible at first to concentrate focus. Dress it really well with lights and great seating and tables. Then as demand arises expand.

Either way this new tower, as opposed to that sad hole, will breathe new life into an already thriving section of Boise. Congrats.