Construction of office building starts – Idaho Mountain …

Construction is under way for a new 7,500-square-foot office building at the corner of Washington Avenue and Fifth Street in downtown Ketchum.

Crews have torn down the tanning salon that once stood on the site, behind the Veltex building on Main Street. They were out digging a pit this week and connecting utility lines for the new structure.

The building, which will be called Kneebone, will be three stories tall and include a mix of office and residential space. Its located at 500 Washington Ave.

The project went before the Ketchum Planning and Zoning Commission in March for its land-use approvals. The commission voted unanimously to approve it.

Local architect Jeff Williams firm, Williams Partners Architects, designed the building, and Ketchum-based Kearns, McGinnis & Vandenberg has been hired as the general contractor.

Kneebone LLC is the owner, which lists contractor Steve Kearns as a member.

The third floor includes a rooftop deck, as well as access to an elevated structure above that. At its highest point, the building will be 51 feet tall, while the deck will be 42 feet high.

The building will have five parking spaces, with access from the rear alleyway. The developers are required to provide nine spaces, with another four available on local streets.

The developers have to pay an in-lieu housing fee of $67,772 to the city governments community housing fund.

The building will sit on a 5,500-square-foot lot, with 3,080 square feet of office space and 4,014 square feet of residential.

Office space would be located on the first and second floors, while residential would occupy parts of the second and third floors.

The building will have two market-rate residential units, one that will be 1,400-square-feet, and a second that will be 2,100 square feet.

Its another new commercial development breaking ground in downtown Ketchum.

The Limelight Hotel, at the southern entrance of downtown, broke ground last summer and is scheduled to finish construction by the end of this year.

Across Main Street, developer Jack Bariteau and his group, Trail Creek Fund, have applied for building permits from the city government for the Auberge Resort Sun Valley hotel project, which is slated to open in 2018.

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