BIG OFFICE BUILDINGS HEADED TO CHINDEN AND HIGHWAY 16 MERIDIAN IDAHO

By Teya Vitu, Idaho Business Review September 27, 2018

Downtown-worthy office buildings are on the way for the northwest corner of Meridian, where open landscape still dominates.

Local developers Tommy Ahlquist and David Turnbull see the eventual extension of Highway 16 south to Interstate 84 and the relentless Meridian westward residential crawl as the best ingredients to build Central Valley Plaza at the corner of Chinden Boulevard and Highway 16.

They announced the 71-acre, $100-million-plus Central Valley Plaza project Sept. 25 with intentions to start construction of a three-story, 90,000-square-foot medical office building anchored by HCAHealthcare in spring.