The 2007 Parade of Homes by the Building Contractors Association of Southwestern Idaho will take place beginning Saturday May 5th through Sunday May 20th. This year there are 37 new homes on the Parade in new home communities from Star, Eagle, Hidden Springs, Meridian, and Boise. (The BSASWI website has maps available online)
The 32 builders presenting homes this year are D & S Homes, Thompson Homes, Kastera Homes, Corintian homes, Guaranteed Quality Construction, Whitney Homes, Canyon Crest Homes, Capitol Building Company, The Alder Creek Home Company, Brighton Homes, Diamond Ridge Construction, Creekside Custom Homes, Tahoe Homes, Hallmark Homes, Clearwater Construction, Highland Homes, Zach Evans Construction, J. Edwards Homes, Cracchiolo Custom Homes, Signature Homes, Emmet Price & Sons, Stetson Homes, Atlantic Pacific Construction, Borup Construction, Todd Campbell Construction, Markar Design & Construction, Homes by PJ Smith, Kirschner Homes, Shiloh Development, Behrman Homes, The Legend Company, and Hubble Homes.
These builders have brought together a great collection of new homes ranging in size from 1487 square feet up to 6195. A wide variety of styles is in this collection as well, including townhomes, California Spanish, European, French Country, and Craftsman. If you love looking at homes, or want to go looking for home project ideas, this is the premier home tour of the year for the Treasure Valley.
The Parade Homes are open daily from 5pm until 8pm weekdays (3pm opening on Fridays), and from noon until 8pm on weekends. Tickets are required, and they can be purchased at most Select-A-Seat locations, where you can also pick up a magazine format program which describes all of the homes, and explains more about the BCASWI. You purchase your ticket ahead of time (not available at the homes) and present it at the first home you wish to see. It is exchanged for a puchcard which you present at each home. The punchcard allows you to see each home once plus 5 re-entries you can use if you wish to see your favorites another time or two. Yes, people do come back multiple times to see some homes. Give yourself a number of evenings and weekend days if you intend to see all of them. And remember to wear slip-off shoes or sandals (hopefully this weekend's 80+ temps will come back for the Parade). I'd also like to mention that a part of the ticket price will go to the Boise Valley Habitat For Humanity.
I hope to see you out there.
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