Apartment City

Dhan Subedi flipped through sheets of apartment listings on Thursday, 15 days before the deadline for her four-person household to vacate Glenbrook Apartments . She’d circled and called the most affordable units in Boise. The earliest one would be available was Oct. 15, nearly a week after her deadline to leave a one-bedroom, $575-a-month apartment. Her 13-month-old son, Kaden, rolled around the floor at the feet of her mother, Mina Subedi. The families of both Dhan and her husband, Prem Subba, are Bhutanese, though Dhan was born during her family’s two-decade stay at a refugee camp in Nepal. Subba’s was one of thousands of Nepalese- speaking families evicted from the country. Located at the corner of South Curtis Road and Cassia Street, the family’s sparse Glenbrook unit is close to the Boise Airport, where Subba works, and State Street, where Subedi works at a market. It’s also close to the former Boise International Market , where the couple owned the Bhutanese and Nepali grocery...

Staff writer NATALIE WICKMAN hitched a ride with Champaign city officials and council members this week on a bus tour showing progress of ongoing capital improvements . Here's what she learned about four of them. CARLE AT THE FIELDS Cost to city: None. Due date: Early 2018 for the Carle and Health Alliance office building and the new Fields South Drive, which will connect Curtis and Windsor roads; sometime in 2018 for the Hampton Inn and Ambulatory Surgery Center. Carle Foundation Hospital 's new campus — located in the northwest quadrant of the Curtis Road interchange — will be anchored by a 300,000-square- foot office building for 1,400 employees. Surrounding it will be new medical buildings and a commercial center. The city's LACEY RAINS LOWE said the commercial center is being viewed by Carle as a "mini-downtown area." Another part of the campus will include a new Hampton Inn, surrounded by four mixed-use buildings with ground- floor commercial spaces a...