Developers Step Up Efforts To Fill ‘Holes’ Around Cda Retail Projects

Now that Coeur d’Alene’s big projects Fred Meyer, Prairie Shopping Center, Ironwood Square are either built or under way, the smaller holes are beginning to fill.

“The holes” are those spaces around the anchor stores; they’re the stores between the anchors or they are pads, separate stores on the peripheries of the parking lots.

Construction should start early next month on a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant on the Ironwood Square pad at Ironwood Drive and Government Way. The 3,000-square-foot eatery will open in September.

The restaurant will employ about 35 people and will feature breakfast sandwiches and real ice cream shakes, as well as regular fast-food fare.

The owner is Spokane Realtor Marshall Clark, who owns Jack-in-the-Box outlets in Spokane, Post Falls, Pocatello, Moscow and Lewiston. He projects another for the development in the northwest corner of Orchard Avenue and Highway 95.

Jack-in-the-Box originated in 1951 in San Diego, where the company has its headquarters. It has 1,260 outlets.

Also in Ironwood Square, Sign-A-Rama officially opened this week in the 1,235-square-foot space between Crosby Floral & Gift and Fantastic Sam’s.

Owner-manager Bob Allen said the full-service company offers anything a customer would want in signage. The signs are custommade for outdoor or indoor use. Sign-A-Rama is a franchised company of about 400 outlets and based in West Palm Beach, Fla.

A native of Kentucky, Allen came to the Inland Northwest in 1981 through his Air Force affiliation. He has been associated with real estate and mini storage businesses. Phone Sign-A-Rama at 667-3700.

Quality outdoor recreation items, specializing in fly-fishing equipment and clothing, will be offered by Northwest Outfitters when it opens in early July in the southwest corner of Highway 95 and Canfield Avenue in Coeur d’Alene.

Opening with eight employees, Northwest Outfitters is a spin-off from Orvis Co., which has offered retail and catalog sales since 1856. Its headquarters is in Vermont. Other regional stores are in Billings, Mont.; Jackson Hole, Wyo.; and Bellevue, Wash.

Northwest Outfitters will occupy 3,600 square feet in the timbered building marketed by Select Properties of Hayden. A local credit company probably will occupy the remaining 7,500 square feet.

Offering services that safely can remove paint from anything, Hi-Tech Stripping is a new business at 6176 Government Way (across from Feed & Farm).

Using nozzle-propelled plastic pellets, Hi-Tech Stripping can remove paint from aluminum cans without leaving a dent or pockmark. However, the company’s specialties are for the restoration of collectable cars as well as boats, airplanes, trains, etc. The chemical-free process works on hardwood furniture and glass. The business also can use sand-blasting for abrasive removal.

Owners are Marty and Bettylou Boyer, Coeur d’Alene and Kellogg natives respectively. Their son Tom helps with the business, which is adjacent to their By-theMall Mini Storage location. Hours are 8 to 5 Monday through Saturday. Phone 772-9522.

Quality furniture built from remilled European pine is featured at TimberCreek Home, a new business at 221 Sherman Ave. (formerly the space of the Pendleton shop), Coeur d’Alene.

The 2,000-square-foot store specializes in home furnishings, accessories and gifts. Owner Becky Webb describes her wares as “rustic, but sophisticated, not just country.”

Originally from Lewiston and Grangeville, Becky and Monte Webb came to Coeur d’Alene seven years ago. They were in the restaurant business in Boise for several years and still own a restaurant at Lake Tahoe.

Tidbits:

Utilizing its new beachside building, the City of Hayden officially will open its Honeysuckle Beach concession stand June 11. It will offer hot dogs, nachos, ice cream, candy and fountain drinks. Hours will be 11-6 in June and August and 11-8 in July.

A nice lawn has replaced the demolished Wilma Building on probably the most viewable corner in downtown Coeur d’Alene. The fenced lawn isn’t usable, just as the Wilma building wasn’t for years even through a downtown theater would be a boon to the area. It will be interesting to see what owner Coeur d’Alene Mines does with the parcel.

, DataTimes The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Nils Rosdahl The Spokesman-Review