Drone, site overview · August 2026
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Construction Update · Vol. 3 · 4 min read

Construction update: August 2026.

Published August 20, 2026· The Arête Team· Vol. 3 of a monthly series

Volume three. We put the drone up over the site in August — and this is the month the buildings start to leave the ground. Foundations are in across the first flats, and the first concrete slabs have been poured. What was graded dirt in July is now formed, rebar-tied, and taking the shape of real buildings.

Golden-hour fly-through · the Arête site · August 2026

What changed this month.

The story since the July update is vertical progress. The foundations for the first flats buildings are in — you can see the long rows of formwork and rebar (the blue tarps protecting the steel) in the photo below — and the first slabs have been poured: Building A on August 10, Building B on the 13th, and Building C on the 18th. Excavators and crews were working the site through the flight. It’s still early, but for the first time the outline of the community is something you can stand on, not just something on a plan.

Aerial view of the Arête flats foundations in August 2026 — rows of formwork and rebar under blue tarps, with a poured concrete slab section and construction equipment on site
Foundations in, first slab poured · August 2026
152
Phase 1 homes
~516
Total at full buildout
3
Slabs poured in August
~10
Months to opening

The neighborhood keeps filling in.

One of the reasons this corner of Meridian works is everything rising around it. The retail and commercial around Discovery Meridian keeps taking shape, and the arterials and everyday services that will sit within a short drive are already here or under construction. Arête isn’t going up in isolation — it’s arriving as the whole Ten Mile area does.

Aerial view of the Ten Mile / Discovery Meridian neighborhood around Arête in August 2026 — retail center, roadways, and graded pads with the Boise foothills beyond
The neighborhood around the site · August 2026
“For the first time, the outline of the community is something you can stand on — not just something on a plan.”

What’s next.

The next month is more of the same, one step higher: continuing foundations and slabs across the remaining flats, and the first vertical framing beginning to go up. We’ll fly again next month from the same angle, so the series keeps stacking into a clean time-lapse of the build toward our 2027 opening.

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Each month, from the same vantage, a little more of Arête appears. Following along from here means you watch it rise from the ground up — and it’s the same interest list that gets first look at floor plans, pricing, and tour availability as we approach opening.

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The community is being built around what we’re showing you here — the apartments, the townhomes, the amenity package, and the neighborhood.

— The Arête Team · Southwest Meridian · August 2026 · Next update: September 2026

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