Golf Course Development Planned For Arrow Point Resort

An 18-hole, high-quality golf course with a full-service clubhouse is included in Phase II of Arrow Point Resort, which has sold about 70 percent of its 100 condominiums on the eastern shore of Lake Coeur d’Alene.

Plans for the 180-acre course on the uphill side of state Highway 57 from the resort complex will reviewed by Kootenai County in the next few weeks. Owner Roger Stewart hopes to break ground in the spring on the golf course and begin play in late 1998.

“It’ll be the second nicest golf course around,” Stewart said with a laugh, indicating the Coeur d’Alene Resort course will still be No. 1.

The Arrow Point course may have ties with the Coeur d’Alene Resort course in catching spinoff customers when the No. 1 course is over capacity.

“We’ve had communications with the Hagadone people,” Stewart said. Hagadone Corp. owns the Coeur d’Alene Resort course. “That’s something we probably are going to pursue.”

The Stewart family is researching well-known golf course designers to plan the course, which would employ more than 50 people on the grounds and in the clubhouse, pro shop and food service.

“It will be an outstanding course - challenging to the low handicappers and with forgiving areas for others,” Stewart said. “We want to use the environment to enhance our view property.”

Some of the acreage will be used for additional living units, primarily more condos. About 100 units will be built in the golf course area and other 40 to 50 below the highway.

The existing two- and three-bedroom condos sell for $195,000 to $325,000. A clubhouse and swimming pool are under construction. The property has about 3,000 feet of shoreline, exclusive of three parcels at the end of Arrow Point, Stewart said.

The Stewart family - Roger, brother David, sister Gail Chamberlain, parents Paul and Carrie Stewart and the siblings’ spouses - hail from Southern California. Roger came to North Idaho in 1979 and started Stewart Construction. They donated the property and labor to build a new fire station on Highway 57 just north of the entry to the resort.

Two engineering companies have new digs in Kootenai County.

Gem State Engineering moved from Sunset Mall off U.S. Highway 95 into Suite 2 of Greenbriar Center at 7560 Government Way. The six employees offer civil engineering, planning, developing and land surveying.

Owners are Jim and Dottie Paulson. He is a Coeur d’Alene native and a graduate of the University of Idaho; she is originally from New Orleans.

Inland Pacific Engineering, a civil engineering consulting firm, moved into Suite 205 of the 2020 Lakewood Building between Ironwood Way and Northwest Boulevard, Coeur d’Alene. Manager Steve Soltys and five employees were brought on as part of an expansion of the company’s Spokane office, which opened in 1975 and now has 30 employees. Their notable North Idaho project is the Coeur d’Alene Place subdivision.

Another new tenant in the 2020 Lakewood Building is Key Mortgage, which offers complete residential and commercial loan services.

Owners are Joel Botker, who came to North Idaho from Minnesota about five years ago; Darryl White, a two-year North Idaho resident from La Crescenta, Calif., and Lori Payton, a Spokane native.

The business and its six employees occupy four suites. Their hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.. Phone 765-LOAN (5626) or (800) 640-1941.

Casey’s Pub and the Falls Brewing Co. opened last week in a new building at 315 Ross Point Road, just south of the Seltice Way-Highway 41 intersection. It is next to the new Kentucky Fried Chicken store and the planned Albertson’s market.

Owners Kent and Cheryl Roberts offer 18 microbrewery beers on tap, 14 wines and a full menu for lunch and dinner. Included are daily specials, burgers, sandwiches, pastas and gourmet pizza. Head brewer Laurie Kraus just won national prizes for both a beer and a wine.

Hours are 11 a.m. to midnight.

Counseling and mediation services are being offered by A Way Through Counseling Center, a new business at 1100 Polston Ave., Suite B, Post Falls.

Owners are Barry Brooks and Jami Schneider-Brooks. He is a licensed and certified counselor, mediator and child specialist; she is office manager and team support mediator. Phone 777-8500.

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