27th & Fairview Apartments in Boise File Revised Plans for 713 Homes and a 16-Story Tower

BOISE — The developer of the 27th & Fairview Apartments in Boise has filed revised plans for the 713-home project along the Boise River Greenbelt at 2850 W. Fletcher St., and the city accepted the design review application for review on Oct. 21. A new drawing set dated Oct. 21, including renderings, elevations, a phasing plan and the architect's letter of explanation, was added to the city file on Nov. 5, with updated floor plans added Nov. 10, according to Boise Builds (case DRH26-00291). The phasing plan sets out a schedule that runs from street work in late 2026 to a 16-story tower starting in 2032.

What changed in the revised 27th & Fairview plans

HURAA Architecture, the Seattle firm designing the project for Urban Capital Partners, writes that a podium-level connection between the Phase 1 building and the Phase 3 tower has been dropped. Removing it makes room for a 30-foot fire access lane between the two buildings, which fire officials requested. The city file includes an email from a Boise Fire division chief approving the revised fire access layout. The Phase 1 and Phase 2 buildings would still be linked over Whitewater Park Boulevard by an enclosed pedestrian bridge at the third floor and a vehicle bridge at the second level.

The team also switched Whitewater Park Boulevard to a standard detached sidewalk, with an 8-foot landscape strip and a 5-foot sidewalk. City staff had said keeping the original attached sidewalk would need a variance, and the architect wrote that the change avoids the delay of that process.

The phasing plan, building by building

Phase 0 is street and infrastructure work, including the Whitewater Park Boulevard extension, with an estimated start in the fourth quarter of 2026 and six to eight months of work. Phase 1 is a seven-story building with 185 homes at the southwest corner of Fairview Avenue and Whitewater Park Boulevard, with an estimated start in the second quarter of 2027 and about 24 months of construction.

Phase 2 is a seven-story building with 330 homes between Whitewater Park Boulevard and 27th Street, estimated to start in the third quarter of 2029 and take 30 to 36 months. Phase 3 is the 16-story tower with 198 homes at the west end of the site next to the Greenbelt, estimated to start in the third quarter of 2032 and take about 24 months. The rendering above shows the front and rear views and the tower seen from the northwest.

Retail, parking and the Greenbelt

The project includes about 24,412 square feet of ground-floor retail and commercial space and about 622 parking spaces, all in structured parking with no surface lots. An automated parking system is expected on levels one through four of the tower. The tower sits behind the full 70-foot Greenbelt setback, and the plans move the Greenbelt pathway connection from vacated Fletcher Street to a new 12-foot paved path. Its final design is being worked out with the city.

The Ada County Highway District approved the street dedication and the vacations of parts of Fletcher Street, 27th Street and Fairview Avenue on May 6, 2026. Valley Regional Transit has asked the project to build a 60-foot transit island at the southeast corner of Fairview Avenue and Whitewater Park Boulevard. Idaho Power's overhead lines along the site would move underground in phases.

What happens next

The project is a major design review, decided by Boise's Design Review Commission. No hearing date is listed in the city file yet. The developer is asking the city to approve the phasing plan along with the design so that later phases can go straight to building permits without a separate design review. BoiseDev first reported the 16-story proposal in August.

Treasure Idaho first covered the project in September: 713-Unit Tower Project Proposed at 27th & Fairview in Boise, Idaho.

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