Commercial HVAC & Mechanical
- Medical and dental office buildings255
- Manufacturing plants212
- Senior living and skilled nursing92
- Hotels58
- Commercial property management firms36
Boise City has 2,075 businesses with 20 or more people on site across the categories commercial trades sell to, and it leans toward medical, dental and outpatient offices and hospitals more than the U.S. as a whole. Here is how each trade's market looks, where the buildings are and when to call.
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Ranked by larger buildings per contractor against up to 100 markets (only markets with 10 or more contractors in a trade are ranked; n/r means not ranked). A higher rank means more buildings worth calling for every competitor working them.
| Trade | Contractors | 1-yr change | Larger buildings | Per contractor | Rank | Eligible targets | Push months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial HVAC & Mechanical Largest buyer group: medical and dental office buildings | 74 | -3 | 719 | 9.7 | #50 | 599 | Apr–Jun, Sep–Oct |
| Fire Protection Largest buyer group: restaurants | 32 | -6 | 1,210 | 37.8 | #63 | · | Year-round |
| Commercial Roofing Largest buyer group: retail stores | 19 | -1 | 1,075 | 56.6 | #66 | 1,733 | Feb–Apr |
| Commercial Electrical Largest buyer group: retail stores | 122 | -7 | 886 | 7.3 | #89 | · | Year-round |
| Commercial Construction Largest buyer group: manufacturing companies | 219 | -20 | 558 | 2.5 | #92 | 1,733 | Year-round |
| Commercial Flooring Largest buyer group: ambulatory health care: physician, dental, outpatient and urgent care | 17 | -2 | 710 | 41.8 | #61 | · | Year-round |
| Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial Largest buyer group: ambulatory health care: physician, dental, outpatient and urgent care | 336 | -57 | 774 | 2.3 | #93 | 452 | Year-round |
| Commercial Landscaping Largest buyer group: retail stores | 621 | -47 | 1,141 | 1.8 | #97 | · | Feb–Apr |
| Commercial Painting & Coatings Largest buyer group: retail stores | 30 | -1 | 1,140 | 38.0 | #86 | · | Feb–Apr |
| Paving & Asphalt Largest buyer group: retail stores | 50 | 0 | 1,129 | 22.6 | #94 | · | Feb–Apr |
Every trade has its own target list. Here are the five largest target industries for each program in the Boise City metro, with local location counts; each guide lists all ten and who your SDR asks for.
Locations with 20 or more employees, U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. Property management and similar categories count every company, whatever its size.
Named, sourced projects current as of 2026-10, and the trades each one puts to work.
Two advanced memory chip fabs at Micron's Boise campus in Ada County, adding about 3,500 direct jobs.
Fab construction and fit-out keep mechanical, electrical and fire protection trades in demand through 2028, and the growing workforce and support buildings feed commercial service work across the valley.
24/7 Wall St. via Yahoo Finance, 2026-08-20 →A seven-story tower and two-story vertical expansion at the Saint Alphonsus Nampa campus, 4300 E. Flamingo Avenue in Canyon County, adding 64 medical-surgical and ICU beds.
A hospital tower on an operating campus runs two-plus years of mechanical, electrical, fire protection and interior finish work, followed by healthcare cleaning contracts.
Idaho Business Review, 2026-03-09 →An outpatient center with urgent care, family medicine, pediatrics, imaging and specialty clinics on more than 17 acres at Highway 16 and Chinden Boulevard in north Meridian, Ada County.
A greenfield medical campus needs site paving, landscaping, HVAC and electrical packages through 2027, then recurring cleaning and grounds contracts.
Idaho Business Review, 2026-03-09 →A seven-story garage with nearly 1,000 rental car spaces, a customer service building and a covered walkway to the terminal at Boise Airport, clearing space for a future Concourse A expansion.
The new garage adds recurring sweeping, striping, lighting and cleaning work, and freeing space for Concourse A sets up the airport's next construction phase.
KBOI 2News, 2026-09-01 →West Ada School District is rebuilding Lake Hazel Elementary and converting a vacant warehouse on Locust Grove in Meridian into a career and technical education center, funded by a $56.4 million certificate of participation loan.
A school rebuild and a warehouse-to-classroom conversion on a fall 2027 deadline mean general contractor, roofing and fire sprinkler work over the next year, then flooring and painting packages in the final months before opening.
Idaho Education News, 2026-09-30 →Three bond-funded Caldwell Fire Department projects in Canyon County: a single-story rebuild of Fire Station 1 and a fire administration building in the former city hall downtown, plus a new Fire Station 4 on Lake Avenue south of Karcher Road, with CORE Construction as builder.
Two new stations and a city hall conversion bring roofing, fire sprinkler and alarm systems, and interior flooring and painting through 2026, and the repurposed admin building is renovation work that suits finish trades.
Idaho Business Review, 2025-12-18 →A 20,000-square-foot forensic laboratory at Idaho State Police headquarters in Meridian for DNA casework, latent prints, digital forensics and ballistics, the first phase of a larger planned lab expansion.
The state lists specialized electrical, plumbing and HVAC infrastructure, and a new lab building also needs a roof, chemical-resistant flooring and coatings before the January 2028 finish.
Idaho State Police, 2026-08-20 →A 26,000-square-foot community center with a gymnasium, fitness rooms, classrooms and a Meridian Fire outreach center west of Settlers Park on North Venable Avenue, plus a park expansion with a dog park, green space, pathways, a playground and 347 parking spaces. Kreizenbeck Construction is construction manager.
The building brings roofing, gym and classroom flooring and painting through 2027, and the Settlers Park expansion adds turf, pathway and planting work plus grounds maintenance once it opens.
Construction Equipment Guide, 2026-04-02 →Boise's 103rd park, south of Eckert Road in east Boise's Harris Ranch area, with soccer fields, pickleball and bocce courts, a nature playground, shade shelters, a permanent restroom and a Boise River Greenbelt connection, funded by $3.7 million from the city plus family and soccer league donations.
Twenty acres of new fields, lawn and greenbelt connection is landscape installation now and recurring mowing and irrigation work after opening, with paths, courts and a restroom building for site and paving contractors.
Idaho Press, 2026-08-19 →A multi-sport park off Highway 16 and Pollard Lane in Eagle, Ada County, planned for baseball, soccer, lacrosse, football and pickleball, with McAlvain Construction named as construction manager and general contractor.
Phase one ballfields mean turf, irrigation and site grading for landscape contractors, plus parking and internal roads, with later phases adding more fields and support buildings.
Idaho News 6 (KIVI), 2026-03-06 →A nine-story hospital tower on the St. Luke's Boise campus downtown adding 80 beds and seven operating rooms, plus a six-story medical plaza linked to the First Street patient parking garage.
With the steel topped out, interior work on the tower and plaza runs through 2029: mechanical and electrical systems for 27 operating rooms, fire sprinkler and alarm systems, and hospital-grade flooring. When patients arrive in early 2030 a 500-plus-bed flagship hospital needs round-the-clock environmental services.
Idaho Press, 2026-06-27 →Meta's data center campus on the outskirts of Kuna in Ada County, more than 750,000 square feet with two buildings now serving traffic and a closed-loop dry-cooler system.
The campus is live with more than 75 operational staff, so facility contracts now shift to ongoing work: cooling equipment and dry-cooler service, electrical maintenance for 1,600-rack data halls, custodial service for offices and support areas, and upkeep of the native-vegetation grounds.
KIVI-TV Idaho News 6, 2026-09-03 →Health systems, campuses, large employers and industrial parks hold the biggest concentrations of commercial buildings here. Each fact links to its source, checked 2026-10.
The City of Boise's 2023 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report ranks St. Luke's as the city's top employer, with 6,000-6,999 employees.
Boise-based system running hospitals, clinics and medical office buildings across the Treasure Valley, all with HVAC, life-safety, cleaning and parking needs.
Wikipedia →Boise State enrolled a total of 28,519 students for fall 2025, up 4.7% from the prior fall.
Growing campus with classroom, research, residence and athletic buildings, parking structures and grounds that need roofing, mechanical and cleaning work.
Boise State University →The City of Boise's 2023 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report lists Micron Technology with 5,000-5,999 employees in the city.
Headquarters and manufacturing campus with cleanroom mechanical systems, heavy electrical loads, specialized floors and large roofs.
Wikipedia →The City of Boise's 2023 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report lists J.R. Simplot Company with 3,000-3,999 employees in the city.
Downtown Boise headquarters office campus with occupied-building cleaning, HVAC, electrical and grounds needs.
Wikipedia →Amazon officially opened its Nampa fulfillment center on November 9, 2020, with about 2,000 jobs expected, making it Nampa's largest single employer.
Large distribution building with big roofs, dock aprons, truck courts and lots, plus around-the-clock cleaning and mechanical needs.
Idaho Press →Boise Airport served 5,229,399 passengers in 2025, its fourth straight record year.
City-owned terminal, parking garages and airfield pavement that need mechanical, paving, roofing and cleaning work.
City of Boise →Compared with the national mix, Boise City over-indexes on medical, dental and outpatient offices, hospitals and hosting and data processing companies. The fastest-growing categories over the past year: medical, dental and outpatient offices (+82), manufacturing plants (+25) and private K-12 schools (+8).
| Category | Sites with 20+ | All establishments | vs. U.S. mix | 1-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 573 | 1,602 | 0.82x | -102 |
| Retail stores | 426 | 2,281 | 0.79x | -288 |
| Medical, dental and outpatient offices | 255 | 1,971 | 1.65x | +82 |
| Manufacturing plants | 212 | 782 | 1.15x | +25 |
| Wholesale distributors | 160 | 974 | 1.00x | -109 |
| Senior living and nursing | 92 | 177 | 0.71x | +2 |
| Grocery stores | 59 | 205 | 0.52x | -22 |
| Hotels | 58 | 107 | 0.63x | -6 |
| Bank and credit union offices | 46 | 512 | 1.16x | -28 |
| Trucking companies | 45 | 460 | 0.96x | -91 |
| Private K-12 schools | 34 | 57 | 0.94x | +8 |
| Auto dealerships | 31 | 120 | 0.82x | -24 |
| Churches and religious organizations | 27 | 305 | 0.43x | +5 |
| Apartment and residential property managers | 13 | 182 | 0.93x | -14 |
| Warehousing and distribution | 12 | 49 | 0.91x | -2 |
| Hospitals | 11 | 15 | 1.36x | +2 |
| Hosting and data processing companies | 9 | 45 | 1.35x | -18 |
| Golf courses and country clubs | 8 | 19 | 0.56x | -2 |
| Commercial property managers | 4 | 36 | 0.65x | -3 |
| Colleges and universities | 0 | 6 | 1.10x | -1 |
| Nonresidential building owners | 0 | 57 | 0.70x | -1 |
Ada County holds 75% of the metro's larger business sites, so most programs start there and cover the rest of the metro for larger accounts.
| County | Larger business sites |
|---|---|
| Ada County | 1,512 |
| Canyon County | 487 |
| Gem County | 27 |
Outdoor trades (roofing, paving, landscaping, exterior painting) work the months with lows of 40°F or above and sell in the months before. HVAC sells ahead of its heating and cooling peaks. Each trade page has its own calendar.
Idaho requires contractors to register with DOPL rather than pass a competency license, with an exemption for small projects under $2,000. Electrical and HVAC work require separate state trade licenses, fire sprinkler contractors are licensed by the State Fire Marshal, and public works contractors need a separate public works license.
Trade-by-trade rules are on each trade page. Confirm with Idaho Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses (DOPL). Checked 2026-09-30.
Before you hire a sales development rep in Boise City, price the whole job, not just the salary. Here is the local pay for sales representatives, and what a first year really costs once you add commission, payroll taxes and benefits, tools, recruiting and the manager time it takes to coach them.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025. Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services and travel (SOC 41-3091).
In-house adds $15,000 commission, 25% payroll taxes and benefits, $500/month tools, $5,000 recruiting and 4 manager hours a week at $75/hour, before ramp time or turnover. Abstrakt includes the SDR, management, tools and data.
Abstrakt's U.S.-based business development reps build a Boise City target list around your trade, service area and ideal buildings, work it by phone, email, LinkedIn and direct mail, and book meetings with the people who sign. We will not run the same program for a direct competitor in your territory.
Selling into Idaho? See the Idaho outbound calling rules: do-not-call lists, calling hours and registration, so you know what a program here has to handle.
Yes. Abstrakt runs outsourced appointment setting for commercial trades across the Boise City, ID metro: our U.S.-based business development reps call the buildings, qualify the opportunity and book meetings with the person who signs. We run one program per trade per market.
Measured by larger buildings per contractor against the 100 markets we track (where a trade has at least 10 local contractors), commercial HVAC & Mechanical (#50), fire Protection (#63) and commercial Roofing (#66) rank best in Boise City.
Compared with the national mix, Boise City has more medical, dental and outpatient offices (1.65x), hospitals (1.36x) and hosting and data processing companies (1.35x). Those industries are the best-represented buyers for trades that serve them.
The metro covers Ada County, Canyon County and Gem County. Ada County holds 75% of the larger business sites.
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