Willow Bay community planned
A gated community with access to a yacht club and a private $2.2 million clubhouse is being developed on 180 acres of property along the Pend Oreille River in North Idaho.
The Crossing at Willow Bay will cater to people who want to build estates. Eighty-two lots are offered, ranging in size from half-acre with a view or waterfront to four-acre lots in the woods. Prices start in the mid-$200,000s and range up to the low-$700,000s.
“We’ve got a nice variety,” said Kim Hansen, who sells property in the development owned by her husband, Gerald Hansen, and Jim Sullivan, of Sullivan Homes.
The amenity-rich development, located 10 miles southwest of Sandpoint, will have a community beach, extensive trails and an outdoor sports complex with tennis, volleyball and basketball courts and a picnic area. Residents have access to boat slips. Boat and RV parking is included in the cost.
Hansen said the community is being marketed to residents of California, Arizona and other states.
Much of the infrastructure and landscaping is complete. A 6,300-square-foot clubhouse with a floor-to-ceiling fireplace, catering kitchen, full bar, library, business center and conference-banquet room will be done by the end of the year, Hansen said. The clubhouse was designed by Wayne Ruemmele of Epikos LLC Planning & Architecture, architects for Tamarack Resort in McCall, Idaho, and Frank Wakely is the builder.
Construction has begun on any private residences yet.
Furniture store to open in Spokane Valley
Charles Home Furnishings is opening a store in the former home of Great Floors at 5715 E. Sprague Ave.
The Council Bluffs, Iowa-based Charles Schneider Fine Furniture has manufactured sofas, chairs, tables and bedroom furniture for more than 60 years, and recently started opening retail stores as a bid to compete with big chains.
“We stock a wide variety of furniture. We also do custom orders. We will match any of our hundreds of fabrics to any different frame,” said Jay Searson, spokesman for the company.
The Spokane store will be the fifth in the chain, but wasn’t part of the original plans, Searson said. However, the company had a good working relationship with Robert Goff, the owner of Better Buy Furniture, a store that sold the furniture maker’s products.
Better Buy Furniture, on First Avenue in Spokane Valley, will close and Goff will manage Charles Home Furnishings.
The store is opening 18,000-square feet of space and the lease was handled by Shawn McMahon of Century 21 Beutler & Associates.
Mattress store opens in Spokane Valley
Mattress Ranch has opened a store at 6511 E. Sprague Ave., near the Display House.
The location is part of an eight-store franchise that sells factory-direct mattresses made by Lady Americana.
Store manager Charlie Breach, said storeowners Jim Hill of Anchorage, Alaska, and Ralph Binkley of Spokane, plan to open three more locations by the end of the year. The store is 4,000-square feet and sells mattresses and metal frames at discount prices.
Meeting will look at impact of office complex
A traffic-scoping meeting for a planned 30,000- to 40,000-square-foot office complex at 29th Avenue and Martin Street will be held next week. Global Credit Union owns the land, located across from Applebee’s.
The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St.