Happy New Year!

Your West End board extends heartfelt wishes to you and your families a happy and healthy 2025!

The Signs are Here! The Signs are Here!

Have you seen the new West End Neighborhood street signs? It’s been a long journey and the WENA Board Members are excited to finally see the results of a multi-year effort and collaboration
between past and present Board members, our partners at the City of Boise (City), and Ada County Highway District (ACHD) to create an identity logo that represents our neighborhood and to add the logo to street signs at various entry points into our neighborhood.

Some history of our journey: WENA was initially awarded an identity kit grant in Summer 2020 to have local artist, Kelly Knop, create a logo based on what you, and all your neighbors, told us about your favorite qualities of living in the West End. A highlight of the logo project was learning that Kelly had grown up in the West End and that his creativity would reflect his many childhood experiences.

The new WENA logo debuted in June 2021 and quickly put to use at our community building events including HalloWENA and Bark in the Park. Then WENA received a neighborhood improvement grant from the City in August 2022 to build and install street signs of the new logo at sixteen locations in collaboration with ACHD.

Our Board members volunteered a lot of time to canvas the West End to decide the points of entry into our neighborhood that met baseline criteria, such as visibility, multimodal traffic routes, and proximity to city parks and schools. This project ended up having multiple points of contact for multiple tasks, which took two years to complete and trying everyone’s patience.

The new signs started to appear on street corners between Christmas and New Year’s. Perfect timing!
This project is a great example of the community building that can be created with vision,
community partner support, and the volunteer spirit and commitment of a neighborhood
association.

Do you have a project idea that would align with WENAs mission, which is to support safe
multimodal connectivity into and through the neighborhood, preserve and enhance our gorgeous tree canopy, and maximize neighborhood access to the outdoors? Please come share at the next board meeting!

WENA Board Meeting – January 21st at 6:30pm

The next board meeting will be at Casanova Pizza on Tuesday, January 21, at 6:30pm. Join us! The agenda is here.

Finch on Fairview – New Housing Project

A new garden apartment project is planned for the intersection of 27th and Fairview; it’s called Finch on Fairview. This project consists of 40 units in a two-phased construction project that will begin July 2025. 10 units are affordable housing.

View the design renderings here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FdhlNESGK8QCGM1ES7pmRFQ5o-NRiKoC

Architects will be presenting their design to the Design Review Commission in February.

More to come about this project.