Hayden’s Prairie Shopping Center Is Filling With Tenants

Strengthened by a 15,000-square-foot fitness facility, the new Prairie Shopping Center in Hayden is filling spaces with leases faster than the buildings are being completed.

With two major buildings and five outlying pads, in all totaling about 200,000 square feet, the development occupies nearly 26 acres north of Prairie Avenue between Highway 95 and Government Way.

So far, open stores include the center-anchor 51,000-square-foot Albertson’s supermarket and a Mountain West Bank. A Burger King along Highway 95 is nearly completed.

North of the Burger King and west of Albertson’s is the Keystone Lighting Building, vacated by its namesake a couple of years ago. It is being renovated and reshaped into a 120,000-square-foot complex that will be a mall in itself.

The four-plex of Coeur d’Alene Discount Cinemas opened last month in about 15,000 square feet of the northeast corner. Its new neighbor will be of similar size.

World Gym, a full-service health club with a pro shop and juice bar, will open in December in the eastern portion of the Keystone Building.

The fitness facility will include more than 8,000 square feet of rooms filled with exercise equipment and free weights. Other amenities include a wooden aerobics floor, tanning beds, massage area, nursery and large locker rooms with saunas. The business will employ about 20 people, including experienced trainers.

World Gym has more than 300 outlets nationally. The local manager will be Gary Retter, who has 20 years of health club experience in North Idaho.

Owners are Chip Althen, Jim Johnston and Jack Tawney, who also own Ironwood Athletic Club in Coeur d’Alene. The health clubs will not have reciprocal memberships. Althen and Tawney came to North Idaho from Missoula. Johnston is a Coeur d’Alene native.

A 17,336-square-foot Rite-Aid drug store is nearly complete on the east edge of the shopping center. Rite-Aid, with its headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa., is the company that purchased Pay Less drug stores. The Coeur d’Alene store in Ironwood Square, which will be renamed Rite-Aid, employs about 35 people.

The 17,500-square-foot strip mall that connects Rite-Aid to Albertson’s is rapidly filling with tenants and there are rumors of more to come (such as Starbuck’s Coffee and Bath & Body Works). Here’s the list so far:

A combination of Bagelby’s and Jungle Juice will occupy 2,265 square feet next to Albertson’s. The stores will share a common seating area for 30 customers and will open in late November or early December.

Bagelby’s will offer about 30 types of freshbaked, New York-style bagels from hearthstone ovens. Owners are brothers Tyler and Travis Anderson, who came from Blackfoot, Idaho.

“We drove all over (the Inland Northwest) and decided this was our best opportunity for growth and success,” Tyler Anderson said. “And it’s a beautiful place to live.” Bagelby’s has seven stores in Southern Idaho.

Bagleby’s and Jungle Juice also are combining on a store in the former Blockbuster Video on Appleway in Coeur d’Alene. The 6,000-square-foot store will seat up to 80 people and house the dough production facility. It should open in late November.

Jungle Juice is owned by Shane and Jonna Wintch, who moved to Kellogg from Orem, Utah. They offer a variety of fruit and vegetable drinks that are nonfat, low-calorie, with no preservatives. Some have health supplements.

Cost-Cutters Family Hair Care will open in 1,400 square feet around Oct. 10. Owners are Terri and Brad Krohn, who came from Wayzata, Minn., four years ago to open Idaho’s Cost-Cutters, which now number eight. Jeanie Lander will manage the new store’s six employees. Cost-Cutter has more than 700 stores nationally.

The Smart Shop will offer “namebrand merchandise under wholesale pricing,” according to owner Cherie VanderRoest, who is renaming and moving her C&S Discount from 6005 Government Way in mid-October. A native of Houston, she came here from Sacramento, Calif., six years ago.

Hometown Pizza will offer take-and-bake gourmet pizza. The eight-employee shop is owned by appraiser John Wilkey and real estate agent Brent Heleker, who came north from Sacramento and Payette, Idaho, respectively.

Sonja’s Cleaner by Nature will offer non-toxic dry-cleaning and a shirt laundry service. Owners are Sonja and Frank Zimmerman. She was born in Australia, and he is a logging contractor, originally from Bonners Ferry. They’ll have five employees when they open in early November.

Check-It-Out Video will open either in the strip mall or on a pad near Mountain West Bank. Coeur d’Alene native Terry Corey, a product of North Idaho College, has three other North Idaho stores.

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