Northgate Groundbreaking

New Northgate Community Expected to Help Local Economy

Photo Courtesy of the Idaho State Journal

Rachel Cox-Rosen – KPVI

The new development should help the economy.

 There are some big changes coming to Pocatello and Chubbuck, and they involve over 1000 acres of land. It’s called the Northgate Development.

The City of Pocatello, the City of Chubbuck and the State of Idaho are all teaming up for this project. The development’s website says it will bring affordable housing and well-paying jobs to the area.

Matthew Hunter, the Pocatello and Chubbuck Chamber of Commerce president and CEO, says, “It’s going to be a whole live-in community, so it will have your grocery stores, your restaurants, maybe a hotel and all the types of thing a community like that would have. But it will also have those employers, and hopefully some big ones, just not sure who or what.”

It’s also marketed as Idaho’s first walkable and bike-able community.

The development will have 10,000 residential units, a retail and shopping district and an office space of over one million square feet that’s expected to support 6,000 jobs.

A new interchange is also in the works, called the Siphon Interchange. It will allow direct access to the new community, better connect Pocatello and Chubbuck and should lessen the traffic on I-15.

Population growth is another reason for the new development.

As Boise and the Wasatch Front continue to get bigger, they also get more expensive, pushing more people into Pocatello and Chubbuck.

There’s also the potential for more young people to pour into the area, as there are so many students going to school around Pocatello.

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FBI to add 350 new jobs in Pocatello

Courtesy of the Idaho State Journal
By Journal Staff Sep 20, 2017
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The data center under construction at the FBI site in Pocatello will ultimately require adding about 350 employees when it’s finished, said Michael Malinowski, section chief of the IT Infrastructure Division in Pocatello.

That’s an increase in employees from the current number of around 200 and will include new hires and transfers he said during a press event on Wednesday. Construction on the data center started in August. It should be done in early 2019, he said.

Malinowski said the pay range for employees in the data center will be competitive.

“We are extremely competitive for most positions,” he said.

Meanwhile, in addition to the increase in employees, the project will bolster contractors.

“There are a lot of local contractors that are going to be involved in this building,” he said.

The project overall will have an impact of tens of millions of dollars on the local economy, according to John Regetz, executive director of the Bannock County Development Corporation. In April 2016 it was initially thought the project might bring in about 300 workers.

“That’s good news that they’re increasing their level of commitment,” Regetz said. “It just means more good jobs in our community. These are going to be good-paying jobs.”

He said having those extra jobs and added income here will help the retail sector and businesses in and around the Pine Ridge Mall. It would also likely bolster the housing market.

“If our developers and contractors don’t respond quickly enough there will be a tight supply,” he said.

Regetz also said it might also create an opportunity for training partnerships with Idaho State University.

“It could really expand our high-tech talent base,” he said.

Pocatello Mayor Brian Blad says he happy to see the project advance.

“We’ve always talked to them about 300 to 400 jobs for this data center so it’s great news,” he said.

He said the jobs will offer living wages and those are the kinds of jobs the city has been hoping to help bring to the community.

“It’s going to be a great economic boost for our community and we are very excited to have them expand their operation here,” Blad said.

Twenty-Sixth Annual Economic Symposium

Bannock Development Corporation is inviting you to our Twenty-Sixth Annual Economic Symposium!

AN ECONOMIC OVERVIEW AND BANNOCK COUNTY’S GROWING ECONOMY
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26TH, 2017
10:30 A.M. TO 1:00 P.M.
At the L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center

Program
10:30 a.m. Registration
11:00 a.m. Symposium Program
Hors d’Oeuvres and drinks to follow

Speakers
Featured Speaker:  Buck Swaney, Principal, Millennial Development Partners.
Our 26th Anniversary Economic Symposium features a discussion on the Northgate Interchange Project.

Prices
$18 Advanced Purchase
$20 at the Door
$125 for Corporate Groups (8 Tickets)


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