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At the corner of Travis Street and Pecan Grove Road in Sherman, the lot is reddish brown with overturned earth, crisscrossed by excavator tracks. Less than half-a-mile north on Travis, dense vegetation stands defiantly , just to the north of a small subdivision of 38 homes. Both sites were earmarked for luxury apartments , but only one will serve that purpose. At the corner of Travis Street and Pecan Grove Road in Sherman, the lot is reddish brown with overturned earth, crisscrossed by excavator tracks. Less than half-a-mile north on Travis, dense vegetation stands defiantly , just to the north of a small subdivision of 38 homes. Both sites were earmarked for luxury apartments , but only one will serve that purpose. The juxtaposition is a very tangible embodiment of a town in need of new rental units but wary of upsetting current residents . The Sherman Planning and Zoning Commission approved the Pecan Grove development — formally called Creed Canyon Apartments — in March of 2...

Perryman Construction Management is building the 30-unit multi- family Hayspur development in Nampa. Photo courtesy of Mountain Peak Marketing " width="300" height="169" /> Perryman Construction Management is building the 30-unit multi- family Hayspur development in Nampa, shown here. Photo courtesy of Mountain Peak Marketing Apartment projects are going up across the Treasure Valley from Boise to Meridian to Nampa and to the next frontier in multi- family housing , Kuna. Some 2, 700 apartment units are in various stages of construction among those cities. Some are recently completed and some are being built in phases.  That is a stark contrast to the near zero multi- family construction in 2010 in metro Boise. Multi- family housing has evolved in the 21 st century, largely moving away from large buildings with hundreds of units. Locally, many developers have settled for the common denominator of sets of fourplexes with the occasional six-, eight- ...