Apartments have been springing up across the Treasure Valley in recent years, in nearly every city. One large-scale project describes itself as “resort-style,” with a long list of amenities.
If you haven’t been out apartment shopping lately, you might not know what a new higher-end apartment complex with rents starting at nearly $1,400 and run much higher looks like.
So we took a tour of one complex that’s about to open.
Seasons at Meridian is a 10-building, 360-unit apartment complex adjacent to Majestic Cinemas in Meridian. It features amenities like a golf simulator, pool, expansive clubhouse, and dog parks. The community was built on former farmland originally slated to be a Winco — but the company sold its property and decided to renovate the location on Progress Ave. and open a new location on Chinden Blvd. instead.
BoiseDev got a first look inside the development as it nears completion
Layout, apartment specs
The community features three-story L-shaped buildings that face each other in pairs. Seasons at Meridian offers one-bedroom, two-bedroom, three-bedroom, and studio units. There are also five penthouse units with 16-foot ceilings on the property.
The apartment sizes range from 517 square feet for a studio to 1,340 square feet for a three-bedroom. Rent ranges between $1,395 for a studio to $2,350 for a three-bedroom.
Owner Ryan Morgan said the buildings were designed with private space in mind so no one has a neighbor living right across from their front door.
Morgan said his company wanted to pay tribute to the history of the land they built on, so it designed the apartments to be a modern farmhouse style. The exteriors feature pastel colors like yellow, blue, gray, and white while the insides continue the light palette with whites and grays.
The developers wanted to ensure that each apartment had an abundance of windows and natural light.
“When you walk into an apartment, you immediately see out so you’re always going to see a window when you walk inside. Like it just feels bright and open,” Roundhouse Senior Community Manager Brittnee Cole said.
Roundhouse will be managing the property for Morgan Stonehill.
Amenities
Between each apartment building are courtyards themed after different seasons and feature amenities like hammocks, fire pits, grills, and planter beds. Cole said the idea behind the courtyards is to give each set of two buildings its own private community feeling.
“It kind of creates these private conversational nooks, if you will, where you don’t feel like you’re necessarily like right on top of everyone,” Cole said.
Apart from the courtyards which are being built with each building, the shared amenities on the site are largely completed.
Morgan said ensuring the details of the community are just right is important to him, which is why after he completes a project he lives there for about a month to a year. He will do the same with this one.
“One thing we really do is spend time in the things that we design, understand what works, what didn’t work, what we do better, and always continue to try to evolve,” Morgan said.
Seasons has a pool and a hot tub with a large deck, outdoor showers, and lounge chairs. The spacious clubhouse with multiple TVs, a conference room, billiards, ping pong tables, and a food preparation area.
There is also a gym that needs to have the rest of its equipment set up, dog parks that need to be landscaped and put together, and the golf simulator is not put together yet. The golf simulator building will also have a dog wash and a bicycle repair station. Ryan and Cole said outstanding projects should be completed when tenants move in.
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