BOISE BENCH, Idaho — Plans are changing for a proposed five-story building on the Boise Bench as developers respond to cost concerns.

Hawkins Companies hosted Boise Bench neighbors Tuesday evening to address changes they plan to make to their development on the corner of Kootenai and Federal Way.

The original plan called for a five-story apartment complex with underground parking, but developers are now looking at above-ground parking due to cost constraints.

"Digging a hole, putting a part underground parking garage was really prohibitively expensive for the project, so we wanted to look at what we could do," said Ethan Mansfield, the pre-development manager at Hawkins Companies.

That's not the only change on the table. The layout is shifting and adding townhomes into the mix.

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