Growing Garden City

An old school bus, painted blue, pulls up alongside a wooden fence around a sprawling mobile home park in Garden City. It’s the Garden City library’s…

The neighborhood known as the Waterfront District is a game changer for Garden City. It was the first high-end housing built in the historically poor,…

On May 14, Boise State Public Radio hosted a Community Conversation on the issue of affordable housing in the Treasure Valley. The goal was to examine how…

You can’t understand Garden City, Idaho without understanding that compared to the cities surrounding it, it's a place of poverty and wealth and not much…

There’s an increasing number of musicians, visual artists and artisans who have chosen to set up shop in Garden City. Many of these artists are from Boise…

Garden City has long been known for mobile home parks and poverty. But with more than three miles of underused riverfront property, developers have become…

Garden City is well known for being one of the poorest towns in the Treasure Valley, but it also has some of the richest neighborhoods in the area.In the…

Hay fields, vegetable gardens, and slot machines: There are several milestones that mark the timeline of tiny Garden City. This four mile burg, surrounded…

Housing development on Garden City’s riverfront has picked up as the economy has improved. The momentum is good for local tax rolls, but it also threatens…