Park Place Construction Nearly Done
Construction of a 60-unit apartment complex and a 20-bed facility for stroke victims at Park Place Retirement Community is nearly finished.
That second, 20-bed building will also serve patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and others who need 24-hour care. A staff member will be on duty at all times to assist patients with food preparation, taking medication or bathing.
The smaller, intensive-care facility should open in early February. The apartments should open in April. Crews began construction last spring.
Peg Phelps, Park Place campus administrator, said the business needed to expand because the number of elderly people in need of greater care is growing.
“The population is aging, and as the population ages, they require more assistance,” Phelps said.
The project takes up about 4-1/2 acres of ground south of the current 117-apartment facility at 511 S. Park Road in the old Edgecliff sanitarium. Park Place opened there in 1992.
Frontier West sold
The former Frontier West Family Restaurant and Bakery now has a new name and menu.
The business at 11105 E. Sprague was re-named Tommie’s Restaurant & Bakery. Father-and-son owners Joe and David Tomlinson bought the business in November and changed the name and the menu last month.
The restaurant no longer has an all-you-can-eat buffet offering.
Tommie’s offers only full-service dining. The menu now offers a variety of home-style dishes including steak, pasta, seafood, salads and sandwiches.
Burger King planned for Liberty Lake
A new Burger King restaurant is scheduled to open in Liberty Lake next month.
Work on the 3,000-square-foot building at 1421 N. Liberty Lake Road began in December. The restaurant will have a playground and a stucco exterior, which is typical of newer Burger King locations.
The restaurant will be No. 11 for Coeur d’Alene-based Hatter Investments. The company has been busy lately. It opened a Burger King in the STA Plaza in downtown Spokane on Nov. 30, and a ‘50s-themed location in Post Falls on Oct. 11.
Sandy Rolphe, an office administrator with Hatter Investments, said the new Valley restaurant will seat 84 customers and employ 40 to 50 people.
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