Your area still has a lot of single family house construction. However, the multifamily(apartments) has dropped to almost zero.
The problem is there is no alternative to I90.
There is only ONE highway to go east and west on. It can take well over an hour to go from Spokane airport to Coeur d’Alene now depending on traffic.
I have a customer who lives in Rathdrum and works in Airway Heights. He leaves everyday at 3:30
That’s not correct about multi-family projects. They are about as numerous as single-home subdivision projects. I’ve seen lots of investment and construction in my lifetime, but never a boom as big as this one. You’ve seen our area grow on your visits here.
Anybody who has been here for any time is upset about it all. My family arrived in the 1920s (Bonner County to Latah County), then moved to Kootenai County in 1966. We started visiting grandparents in Kootenai County in ‘66. We bought in Hayden almost ten years ago now.
That’s what happens when the nation’s population doubles in 50 years and people are hungry for good governance, low crime and freedom. Earlier today, a new crime survey was released and Idaho scored near the bottom in crime (i.e., good — low crime). It correlates to the survey of gun ownership rates in states that came out a week ago. Surprise!