Caldwell and Nampa Idaho Research

From: Lance (Economic City Report Service Sector)
Remote Name: 66.82.48.1
Date: 14 Aug 2003
Time: 22:27:54

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Economic Report on Caldwell, ID. First I would like to comment on the first rate job being done by Mr. Al Ames of the Caldwell Economic Development Council http://www.caldwellonline.org . He and his team have devised a revitalization of the down town area. There is a river flowing under the city, which has been paved over and built upon. They will be uncovering about 10 blocks of it and changing the area to allow for a Downtown River Walk like in San Antonio. It will be called the Indian Creek “River Walk” (actually the Boise River officially still) and it is impressive and they have in place all the funding. At the end of the area is a Turn about being built to allow for five directional traveling including allowing people to get onto the two downtown one-way streets. There is a six-acre piece of property available which was an old pallet factory, the owner wishes to move it. Perfect for a Detail Guys Super Center: http://detailguys.com/reno.shtml and a car wash too: http://www.carwashguy.com/ . Many new homes going in and we expect a continuing growth there that will be unparallel and should surpass the Nampa, ID growth in terms of percentage increases in 2004-2006. Nampa now the sign says 68,680 but that is wrong way more people and growth everywhere. In Caldwell the only car wash left in town is a coin-op (in-bay combo). They charge $.25 per 45 seconds for the vacuums, it is right off the off ramp and good location on tenth street it also has a Tri-Foam Touch-less system, all state of the art. The other car wash unfortunately was built upon the underground covered river and the exit area fell into the river and the guy wants to sell it, but the insurance company has not paid off yet and the planning commission is frowning on the idea. So that is dust. We met one competitor trying to put a deal together who pumped us for information, did not get much out of us. It appears we will be going head to head and winning that market. When we met with Mr. Ames for an hour, he said he was meeting with Senator Mike Crapo that afternoon to alert him of the ongoing progress and excellent recruitment work. They are inline with our thinking, Caldwell is going to have a population explosion and they are revitalizing just in time. They are working on implementing a project called L.I.F.T. Local Infrastructure Financing Trust. Mr. Aimes worked under President Carter in charge of NV, ID, OR economic development and did an awesome job creating jobs and setting the local cities and counties back on track to help tax base and cities provide services. Mr. Aimes also was in charge of the Torch in Downtown Newport Beach, CA. during his stint there. It has been burning 30 years now. I have been discussing on this board the various river walks and downtown revitalizing a key to cities, which have had agriculture (now done by machines and corporate farming) based economies and manufacturing jobs that have gone over seas. As economies move to retail and services and leisure and the baby boomers grow older and desire these things this is a good play to help those towns which have had areas boarded up and small businesses gone out of business due to decreased jobs and box store corporate merchandising. The population in Caldwell is a mere 30,800 up from 25,900 in about a year and a half. New residential park going in now Delaware Park, with single family dwellings http://www.coreybartonhomes.com . Some older crowd moving in who cannot afford the higher priced Meadow Lake Retirement Village, similar to a Sun City, ID style. Sky Ranch Industrial Park is a major upgrade, 65 acre industrial park which will make it the largest in ID and rivaling Anaconda Industrial Transportation hub area outside of Butte. West Valley Medical Center http://www.wesvalleymedctr.com allows for those older people to move in and have all the medical services they need, it also allows for many high paying jobs. Canyon County is growing at about 2.6% since 2000. Nampa at 4.8% and Garden City has about 11,000 people in it now. Meridian has 34,919 and Eagle has 12,000 now and growing high end. The whole area is picking up the growth that the build out in Boise could not sustain as the construction and growth has nearly hit all city limits. Since 1970 ID has lost about 4,000 family farms, some to corporate farmers like J.R. Simplots buying them up for sales of frozen potatoes to McDonalds. Also grown in this area of ID are Peas, which makes it number one in the world for peas. Barley, Hops, Onions which were originally Simplots first crop which they dehydrated and shipped which helped build the town. In 1941 they started doing potatoes in WWII. Caldwells origins were with the railroad during the gold rush in CA. Many hotels, saloons, etc, made the town grow fast in its early days. Caldwell was named after C.A. Caldwell Ex-governor of Kansas in 1890. In 1884 the area before it became a city had 600 residents, 150 buildings, 40 businesses and 3 churches. Albertson College was built in 1891. Yes same family that own Albertsons Grocery today which is HQ in Boise, ID. Today Canyon County has some 380,000 irrigated acres, most irrigated from Snake River. Caldwell has much Dairy Industry farms. For every 1000 Dairy Cows it employs about 30 people. National Dairy Association. Milk, Cheese and Cows are big business in the US; http://www.dairyinfo.com/ . The Annual Fair is happening now until August 19. http://www.caldwellrodeo.com and http://www.caldwellidaho.org . The Aircraft Museum has moved to a brand new Facility in Nampa. $5.00 per visit and worth the money. http://www.WarhawkMuseum.com . The business community is united; http://www.idahosbdc.org and http://www.wemswbc.org . The office space and retail space leasing prices are about; $8.00 to $15.00 in Ada County it is little higher by a buck or two stated a commercial real estate broker we met in Starbucks in Boise. In Canyon County 61% of the Population is either in Nampa or Caldwell, Industrial is low at about $.20-35 or so. Over 60% of the industrial buildings in the county are within city limits of Nampa and Caldwell. http://www.gunstreamcp.com check out the aerial views on that site. For this reason we are considering fixed site franchise in each city and a mobile to include both cities. We want to win that market, therefore we will. In Boise we were alerted to two businesses for sale in our industry. Papa Eds Auto Care for $480,000 with 5,215 square feet and Mister Car Wash on the road from Boise to Eagle, also down that road is a new Super Wal-Mart and the Country Fair grounds, make a right hand turn and you are basically in Eagle in four miles, all high growth and high traffic areas. Lots of opportunity in this region of our Great Nation. Caldwell is next to have the exponential growth http://www.ci.caldwell.id.us . Mike Gable agrees Exec. Director. In Caldwell we found some nice properties too of the freeway for about 175K per acre. We also talked with the Chamber of Commerce in Caldwell and Meridian both were hyper-optimistic about growth and working hard to keep infrastructure ahead of the curve, the program is working. Tourism is alive and well. The average California Tourist spends $349.00 in Idaho. Oregonians spend average of $104.00 and Washington travelers spend $113.00 . Tourism is about to get even better after the Indian Creek River walk is completed. But also not to be underestimated is businesses such as Darigold, West Farms and Crookham Seed-Hybrid Corn. We also noticed that there is a local Hotsy Dealer there to care for our equipment. Many people work in Boise and live in Nampa and Caldwell, which is stressing I-84 and the 184 City Center fwy link. Some jobs are call center jobs, one is for Direct TV and they pay $8.00 per hour instead of $5.15 minimum, because they say listening to a complaining caller about their HBO service. For information about all of this check out the 43 Billion Sales in ID. http://www.idahoworks.com . Canyon County’s Labor force is over $69,000 and unemployed is 5.9% so things are good for operating a service business in that region. If you have comments on the Caldwell, Meridian, Eagle, Nampa Markets, you let us know; Info@carwashguys.com

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