King\u2019s expanded building (foreground, right) is across the street from Natural Grocers, both on Main Street in Hailey. Photo Credit: Dana DuGan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIn 1996, the population of Hailey was about 5,400. Today, it is about 8,000. In contrast, Ketchum\u2019s population in that same period has dropped by 100 so that it\u2019s now less than 2,700.<\/p>\n
The private infrastructure of Hailey is keeping pace with the city\u2019s growth, as evidenced by the major construction projects at the Natural Grocers building to open this fall\/winter; the expansion of King\u2019s variety store on North Main Street, also with a projected fall\/winter opening; a new $900,000 headquarters for Evans Plumbing in Hailey\u2019s light industrial area; and The Cottages of Sun Valley, an assisted living and memory care <\/span>facility in north Hailey, to be completed in 2017. There are two more proposed buildings: the new Wiseguy Pizza building and D.L. Evans Bank, both on Main Street.<\/p>\nThe estimated investment in these new construction projects is $16 million.<\/p>\n
Natural Grocers has more than 100 stores in the western U.S. and this one will provide the Wood River Valley with another grocery option. Only USDA-certified organic produce will be sold, as the company sells no produce grown with chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and genetically modified plants.<\/p>\n
The Cottages elder care will include 32 residential suites in two buildings for different kinds of care and will provide 30 new jobs for the Wood River Valley.<\/p>\n
As well, there are the City of Hailey\u2019s public infrastructure proposals, known as \u201cHailey Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper.\u201d The proposals call for creating more parklets in the center core; striped bike lanes on River Street, Second Avenue and on Bullion Street west to the Bullion Street bridge; temporary neighborhood roundabouts to slow traffic; pedestrian crossing islands; and more Hailey and \u201cway-finding\u201d signage.<\/p>\n
According to Community Development Director Lisa Horowitz, the first of the parklets in front of the Liberty Theatre on Main Street has already been installed at a cost of just under $11,000. All of the other \u201cHailey Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper\u201d proposals are, according to Horowitz, \u201c\u2026in process and not prioritized\u201d at the moment and will be presented to the Hailey City Council for approval in the fall.<\/p>\n
To see the city\u2019s proposals, visit www.haileycityhall.org\/planning\/documents\/CCHandout.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Private and public infrastructure is keeping pace By Dick Dorworth In 1996, the population of Hailey was about 5,400. Today, it is about 8,000. In contrast, Ketchum\u2019s population in that same period has dropped by 100 so that it\u2019s now less than 2,700. The private infrastructure of Hailey is keeping pace with the city\u2019s growth, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,88,18,49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-local","9":"category-news","10":"category-top-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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