Our City is Evolving! Check out the changes helping Idaho Falls

Our City is Evolving! Check out the changes helping Idaho Falls grow (Taken from Idaho Falls Magazine: http://goo.gl/2y7xW)  City on the Move   Management offices find a new home on Memorial

Many residents should be familiar with the address once occupied by Moffat & Thomas on Memorial Drive. As of Oct. 1, that locale is now the proud home of several key agencies and development organizations for our area.   The new tenants include the Chamber of Commerce, Better Business Bureau, US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Partnership for Science & Technology, Auditorium District and the Downtown Development Corporation. As the development corporation's Bob Everhart can attest, the massive overhaul of Memorial Drive could have a huge impact on the look and feel of Historic Downtown. Not only is the area poised to be much more friendly for drivers with spacious parking and a new roundabout to replace the traffic signal at the intersection of Riverside and Memorial Drive, but it’s also much more pedestrian-friendly. "We have had a major asset in our community, the river, for some time that we’ve under-utilized," Everhart told us in an exclusive interview for our upcoming November/December edition of the magazine. "It’s been a great feature for our town and for our community, but we’ve not maximized the exposure to the river that we could have had, both from the standpoint of the quality of life for the families that live here already, as well as attracting people to our community to the river walkway."   For the IFDDC and it's partners, the time has come to go ahead and enhance that asset, and really make it something special. "We could try to get people to stay longer in our town, and new people to visit our town, which represents economic development, as well as add to the quality of life of people that already live here," he added. For the full interview, pick up a copy of the magazine's November/December edition.