- So you've heard about Boise, right?
It's in the Treasure Valley.
There's some other great places in the Treasure Valley too
and I'd like to explore them with you, next.
Dave Edwards, Treasure Valley Dave,
back at you with some great little communities
in the Treasure Valley.
These are all great communities,
but they all have their own special flavor
and character really.
Let's take a look at Meridian.
Meridian's a big town
it's the second biggest town in the entire state.
It's about 120,000 people now,
and it's growing, and it's all new and shiny.
There's just a ton of activity going on.
It's very close to Boise,
just minutes to get to Boise.
But there's a whole lot to do in Meridian
in its' own right.
Plus if you go to the West
you're just minutes away from being in the country land.
It's absolutely great!
So let's take a look at Nampa.
Nampa is just slightly smaller than Meridian.
We used to be bigger than Meridian
but, what can you do?
And Nampa's really been around for
a long time.
And it's been a bigger city longer
than, say, Meridian has.
So we have more of a feel of a community here.
Things that have been here have been here a long time.
You can talk to old-timers
and they've been to places that are still open
to get to today.
So it's a little bit more traditional feeling.
Little bit more a longer history.
I just like it, it's just beautiful that way
and it happens to be where I live.
Caldwell, too, is an interesting community.
It's a little over 50,000
and it's kind of a country feel to it really.
You would go downtown,
you would see people wearing cowboy boots,
cowboy hat, and driving pickups
with dirt, right off the fields.
It's just a great little community.
They've done so much to improve their downtown.
They've rehabbed all those old two-story
brick buildings
and they're making little boutique shops
out of them.
It's really turning out great.
Agriculture is obviously huge.
Simplot, they are the people that provided
McDonalds with all of their
french fries for decades and decades.
So it's just a really unique and flavorful community.
Just to the North-East of Caldwell is Middleton.
Middleton is a smaller town,
maybe 6,000 people.
It has got the traditional, little downtown feel.
And it is just becoming very popular
just because of that.
There are new developments going on
along the outskirts of Middleton.
But yet, you still go down to the Hamburger Den
there on the main street
or walk down and play in the old Sherman tank in the park.
There's just a bunch of traditional-feeling things
from days gone by.
And then we have Kuna.
This used to be a sleepy little
agricultural town.
But they built this great big
four-lane road from the freeway down to Kuna
and it has turned into a great commuter place.
So you can live down there,
jump on this road, Meridian road,
you can get to downtown Boise, Nampa,
whichever direction you want to go
in you know just minutes.
But yet you come back down to this quiet,
little, little town
which is starting to grow, you know, quite a bit.
There's all sorts of new developments
from, you know, more affordable houses
to houses on bigger, multi-acre lots
in all this grandeur.
If you get a chance, go to Enrique's
tell them Treasure Valley Dave said "hi".
Some great Mexican food down there, I'll tell you what.
I always enjoy talking about the Treasure Valley.
You know, it's not just Boise but all these
other great little communities
and they all have their own unique flavor.
Just fabulous.
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And remember, Dave Edwards, Treasure Valley Dave
always looking forward to helping you get home.