Developer To Build The Club
Future homeowners of The Club at Black Rock, a planned 650-acre subdivision above Rockford Bay, will have access to Lake Coeur d’Alene through the Rockford Bay Resort, which was sold to the Black Rock developer last week.
Denver-area businessman Marshall Chesrown, who plans a 350-house development with several recreational amenities, including a public 18-hole golf course, purchased the 21.5-acre resort from Geri Hyatt of Rockford Bay and Larry Hyatt of Boise.
The 50-year-old resort includes a 104-slip marina and full-service restaurant and bar on 500 feet of waterfront. The lake-view property also includes a convenience store, 20 RV sites, four cabins, a large boat storage barn and house. The Hyatts had extensively renovated the place in their six years of ownership. Geri Hyatt managed 20-25 seasonal employees.
Chesrown, who was born and raised in Spokane and is a longtime owner of a Lake Coeur d’Alene residence, will announce his plans at a news conference at The Coeur d’Alene Resort at 11 a.m. Thursday. Rockford Bay-area property owners will be able to survey the plans at a private open house later Thursday.
Pending approval of the public agencies involved, Chesrown said he plans to redevelop the marina to accommodate additional moorages. Major renovation of the restaurant and gas facilities also are in Phase 1 of the plan, he said. The long-range plan includes a new restaurant.
Rockford Bay Resort is about three miles from the site of The Club at Black Rock, which will have about 60 percent “open space” through the golf course, tennis courts, swimming pool and six miles of hiking and horse-riding trails. Construction of the golf course should begin next spring, followed by the sale of home sites.
Chesrown, 41, bought the Black Rock property from Spokane’s Pring Family, which had planned a golf course and housing development there. Both the Prings and Chesrown have ties to Auto Nation, a nationwide car dealership. Chesrown was in the auto business in California and Colorado and had an auto racing business with drivers competing on the NASCAR circuit.
He plans to upgrade portions of Lofts Bay and Rockford Bay roads and to build a fire station. Once complete, the Club at Black Rock will be the biggest community between Coeur d’Alene and Moscow, according to Tom St. John of the Worley Highway District.
A women’s clothing store called Fashion Bug and a hair salon called Great Clips will be tenants of spaces under construction between Target and Office Max at Silver Lake Plaza, Coeur d’Alene.
The 8,000-square-foot Fashion Bug, which should open in November, offers moderately priced apparel and accessories (coats, dresses, footwear, lingerie and sportswear). A subsidiary of Charming Shoppes Inc., Fashion Bug has more than 1,100 stores, with its headquarters in Bensalem, Pa.
Great Clips, a fast-growing hair salon company scheduled to open in a 1,500-square-foot spot in mid-October, offers haircuts and permanents. The store is decorated in the nautical theme, using the tie of haircut “clips” to clipper ships and casual sails as dividers between booths.
Owner Robert Douthitt of Spokane will employ about 12 people, as he does in his eight other regional Great Clips shops. He hopes to have one or two more shops in North Idaho. A Kansas native, he came to Spokane in 1981 and was a tax attorney for 18 years.
The new stores fill Silver Lake Plaza’s new spaces, owned by WAM Enterprises of Spokane. No plans are available for the large space formerly occupied by Ernst hardware at the east end of the parcel.
A variety of New Age items are available at The Barking Frog, which opened Monday at 421 Sherman Ave., Coeur d’Alene. The inventory includes women’s clothing, jewelry, incense, body henna, tapestries, scarves, mushroom lamps, runestones and several hemp products. The 1,200-square-foot space originally was occupied by Pennaluna Co., now upstairs in the same building.
Originally from Dickinson, N.D., owner Carrie Hochhalter was raised in Post Falls and Hayden. Store hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Phone 665-1894.
Artistic rubber stamps and accessories are featured at The Stampers’ Store, which opened last week at 1411 E. Sherman Ave. Visiting guest artists with classes and workshops are planned for the 500-square-foot facility.
Mary Kay Torres, who came to North Idaho two years ago from the San Diego area, owns the family-run store, which opens at 10 a.m. daily. Phone 667-5155.
Zuka Juice locations in Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls have changed their name to “Jamba Juice.” The change reflects the acquisition of Zuka Juice franchises by Jamba Juice of San Francisco. The stores will keep their trademark smoothies, while adding new flavors and healthy snacks. Jamba Juice is located at 202 Ironwood Drive and 1605 E. Seltice Way.