| The unrealized plan for Boise's
downtown mall (1980) envisioned closing off several city streets and
covering them (dark brown)
to create enclosed pedestrian walkways protected from the elements.
While the plan called for demolishing most of the existing buildings in
the 8-block core and replacing them with new ones, a few historic
structures, notably the Alexander Building (9th and Main), Egyptian
Theater (Capital and Main), the Union Block (Idaho St.), and the Boise
City National Bank (8th and Idaho) were to be preserved. The Boise
City National Bank building, seen in the artist's
conception, is marked BCNB toward the top of the map. Street
names and other captions in square brackets [like this] were added to
the graphic for this webpage.
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