BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The University of Idaho Foundation has reached a settlement in a five-year-old lawsuit against the development company formerly hired to build a $136 million campus extension in the state capital.
District Judge Daniel Hurlbutt Jr. approved the agreement between the foundation and Civic Partners West on Wednesday. Dennis Faucher, a Philadelphia attorney on the foundation's board of directors, says the ruling marks the end of litigation related to the failed University Place development in Boise.
The planned three building complex was conceived in 1999 as a way to bolster UI's stature in the capital. But as the economy later faltered, the project hit financial bumps. Concern over loans made by the foundation cost then Idaho President Robert Hoover his job in 2003.
