by James Patrick Kelly

Gino Vuolo didn't have to look into a crystal ball six years ago when he moved his popular Italian restaurant from Downtown Boise. He knew Meridian was becoming Idaho's fastest growing city and wanted to situate his eatery, Gino's Italian Ristorante, smack dab in the center of the suburban sprawl.

Of course back then, the area surrounding the strip mall where he set up shop, at the corner of McMillan and Ten Mile roads, hadn't been fully developed — and it's still a work in progress. But Vuolo knew that once the profusion of housing developments and apartment complexes were built, all those people would need a place to enjoy pasta, slowly braised lamb shanks and big glasses of vino.

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