2006 Spuds & Duds Awards

Boise Weekly
12/28/05

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Linen District  

It's about time somebody was bothered by the eroding west end of downtown and decided to do something about it. Developer David Hale has such grand plans for the six-block area around 15th and Grove streets that the city was shocked and awed enough to allow Hale to draft his own planning and zoning regulations for the area. And unlike other promised Boise developments (the words "tower" and "hole" come to mind here), Hale wasted no time in getting things off the ground. The recently opened Visual Arts Collective and Donnie Mac's Trailer Park Cuisine are both Linen District projects and both pony up solid evidence that Hale means business. With the ultimate vision of the district as a space where the creative upper crust can live, work, shop and play, Boise 's newest urban village gets two thumbs up and a monster tater from Boise Weekly.