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‘How do we make it successful:’ Micron details housing, transit programs as $50 billion Boise expansion set to ramp up

Don Day - BoiseDev Editor October 27, 2026

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Micron Technology in Boise. Photo: Dani Allsop/BoiseDev

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Boise’s Micron Technology is laying out in detail how it will make promised investments in housing and transit as it works on a $50 billion expansion of its campus on Federal Way.

Micron promised $75 million in community investment shortly after it first announced it would add a memory fabrication plant on its Boise campus. In the four years since, the company has been relatively tight-lipped about how it would spend the funds, but did provide some details to BoiseDev last month.

The chip giant says it will go above the initial $75 million promise, and is detailing a total of $142.1 million in investments it is making in Idaho as part of its expansion.

Scott Gatzemeier, Micron’s vice president of front-end U.S.…