Urban renewal
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Michael Wetherell , May 31, 2011 and June 7, 2011
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Abstract
Mike Wetherell served seventeen years on the Boise City Council. Throughout that time Boise experienced many pivotal changes, notably, urban renewal. He started on the council at the end of years of development stagnation and served through the successful redevelopment of downtown, construction of the Towne Square Mall, and prosperity of the 1990s. His last years on the Council witnessed the controversy with Brent Coles, and the changing of the leadership in 2003.In an interview...
Dates:
May 31, 2011 and June 7, 2011
Mike Silva, October 1, 2010
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Abstract
Mike Silva served on the City Council during the height of opposition to urban renewal; people were upset with how long it was taking to redevelop the downtown. His service on the ACHD Board of Commissioners occurred while the agency was new and there was hostility between the agency and other local governments.In an interview with Brandi Burns on October 1, 2010, Mike Silva discusses moving to Boise and running for the Ada County Highway District. He related that serving as an...
Dates:
October 1, 2010
Ralph McAdams , September 22, 2009 and October 9, 2009
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Abstract
Ralph McAdams served on Boise City Council from 1974 to 1985 during the heyday of urban renewal in Boise. The local government and business leaders were intent on bringing a mall to the downtown and did not consider any other real alternative to redevelopment. McAdams served up to the point when the mall was approved to move to the suburbs, effectively ending the most controversial urban renewal project that Boise had.In two interviews with Brandi Burns on September 22 and...
Dates:
September 22, 2009 and October 9, 2009
Richard Eardley, September 16, 2009, September 23, 2009, and September 19, 2011
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Abstract
Richard Eardley served on the Boise City Council for one term from 1970-1974, and as mayor for three terms from 1974-1986. In an interview with Brandi Burns on September 16, 2009, Richard Eardley discusses his childhood in Baker, Oregon, his career in journalism and radio, what led to his interest in city government, and the issues he worked on as a councilmember and mayor. He describes how the nonpartisanship of local government changed after the Kempthorne administration, what...
Dates:
September 16, 2009, September 23, 2009, and September 19, 2011
Richard Eardley papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 018
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of newspaper clippings, speeches, correspondence, reports, studies, court documents, and ephemera documenting Richard Eardley's tenure as a member of the Boise City Council from 1969-1973 and as Boise Mayor from 1974-1986. Notable issues documented in the collection includes policing, development of downtown, urban renewal, and affordable housing. Also included in the collection are original works of Darwin H. “Dar” Dodds documenting his imprisonment on Wake Island...
Dates:
1941-1986; Majority of material found within 1974-1986
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Richard Eardley papers
William Ah Fong, March 7, 2023
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Abstract
Travis Jeffres conducted this remote interview on March 7th, 2023, with William Ah Fong as part of the Documenting Chinese History in Greater Boise through Oral History project. William Ah Fong, the great-grandson of C.K. Ah Fong a Chinese herbal specialist, offers his memories of Boise’s Chinese population, Boise’s Chinatown, and growing up in Boise as a Chinese American person. Fong discusses his family history, including his great-grandfather’s immigration from China, the evolution of his...
Dates:
March 7, 2023