J-U-B Engineers opening Idaho Falls office

Mike Arneson

Mike Arneson has joined J-U-B Engineers and will be opening an Idaho Falls field office to further serve the eastern Idaho market. He will lead J-U-B’s federal markets group and assist with transportation and alternative delivery projects.

A University of Idaho graduate, Arneson has 21 years of professional engineering and management experience. Most recently, he was a vice president with the North Wind Group in Idaho Falls.

J-U-B Engineers was incorporated in 1954 in Nampa, performing civil engineering, surveying, planning and public facilitation for cities, counties, state and federal government agencies, highway districts and private industry.  

It now has 280 employees in 14 offices in five states: Idaho, Washington, Utah, Oregon, and Colorado. The company is 100 percent employee owned.

Entry deadline for GEM Awards is Tuesday

The Idaho Falls Advertising Federation's deadline for GEM Award entries is Tuesday at 5 p.m. This is for work published in 2013. For an entry packet, follow this link. Questions? Call or text Steve Fischbach at (208) 317-7723.

RSVPs for chamber's networking lunch due by Friday.

Click here to link to the Chamber's page.

Site plan for new Starbucks Coffee filed

The site plan for the new Starbucks Coffee coming to Idaho Falls this year.

We made our first stop of 2014 at the Idaho Falls Building Department, to wish everyone happy new year but not expecting anything too exciting. One thing that jumped out, however, was the site plan for the new Starbuck's at the corner of 17th Street and Jennie Lee Drive. The 2,158-square-foot store is being built by Wadsworth Development of Draper, Utah.

Wadsworth has local involvement with Ball Ventures of Idaho Falls. In 2012 the two companies received the InterContinental Hotels Group Renovation Award for their work on the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Phoenix-Tempe, Ariz.

We are also bird-dogging MacKenzie River Pizza, which is slated to open at Snake River Landing in the beginning of March, according to spokeswoman in the chain's headquarters in Whitefish, Mont. If you can't wait that long, their store in Pocatello opened Monday.

New blog, The Local, covers events in area

Since she has been kind enough to plug BizMojo Idaho, I feel it's only fitting that I call your attention to The Local in Idaho Falls, a blog by my friend Amanda.

In addition to observations and photos, Amanda is putting together calendars and lists of links to help people explore the quality of life here. I encourage all you loyal readers to check her out and help her out with your comments and tips.