The Boise Boys Turned a Riverfront Dirt Lot Into a Whole Neighborhood

BOISE, ID—A vacant lot along the Boise River and a big enough leap of faith eventually became Greenway, the most ambitious project Luke Caldwell and Clint Robertson of Timber and Love have attempted.

In a new episode on their YouTube channel, the Boise Boys walk through what it actually took to develop an entire community from scratch—not just renovate or build a single home, but plan, permit, design, and construct a neighborhood they describe as unlike anything else currently being built in Boise. According to Luke and Clint, the project consumed more than three years and millions of dollars, and came with its share of expensive lessons and moments of serious doubt.

Greenway sits along the Boise River Greenbelt corridor, which makes its setting one of the more distinctive in the valley—close to the water, the trail system, and the kind of outdoor access that tends to move real estate in this market. For anyone curious about the gap between ’we bought some land’ and ’people are living there now,’ this episode is a reasonably candid account of what fills it.