100,000-square-foot building to be finished by spring
Sneak a peak at what’s happening west of Ironwood Athletic Club on Ironwood Drive in Coeur d’Alene. It’s set back on the 4.5-acre parcel so you don’t immediately see it from the road. But when you look, you can’t miss it.
The Chinook Medical Building metal framework is rising three stories high to accommodate a condominium facility of about 100,000 square feet. It will have a partial basement, indoor parking for 24 cars and outside for 291. Completion should be in the spring. Gordon Longwell is the architect.
Most of the occupants specialize in other-than-male health. Here’s the inhabitants so far, with about 15,000 square feet available, unless one of the incoming businesses decides to use more.
The Women’s Clinic of North Idaho will bring 22 employees from their current facility at 1106 Ironwood Drive, which will be for sale or lease. Drs. Fred Ambrose and Mary Sanderson head the obstetric-gynecology practice.
Twenty people from Health Care for Women will move from 1800 Lincoln Way, which will be leased. OB/GYN specialists Drs. Jon Cutting and Brett Penney will be joined next summer by Dr. Marla Hardenbergh.
OB/GYN clinic Hennenberg & Associates has that surname for a reason. It includes Dr. Anthony Hennenberg, his brother Randel Hennenberg, Anthony’s son Andrew Hennenberg and Dr. Ellen Rock. They’ll bring a staff of 10 from their spaces at 914 Ironwood, which will be for sale or lease. Drs. Jean Prince and Ronda Westcott and Jennifer Torok, nurse practitioner, will bring 13 people from Lakeside Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine at 1111 W. Ironwood. And Dr. Marston Westbrook will bring seven staffers from his oral and maxillofacial surgery practice at 700 Ironwood Drive. Neighboring cardiologists will expand into his space. Chinook owners are Longwell, Ambrose, Sanderson and Anthony and Randel Hennenberg. Longwell described the facility as “Class A” with back-up generators, storage space, two elevators and a drive-up canopy. For space information, phone 772-0503.
Willamette Dental open house
At 943 W. Ironwood Drive, Willamette Dental will celebrate its Coeur d’Alene office with an open house today. Regular office hours begin Monday.
The rapidly expanding business, with its headquarters in Portland, will have 57 clinics with 1,300 employees in Idaho, Washington and Oregon by the end of January. They specialize in group contracts such as with businesses, government agencies and schools.
Dr. Brant Powell will lead the practice through November when he will be replaced by Dr. Joshua Williams. Anna Behnke is office manager. The business was started in 1970 by Dr. Eugene Skourtes, chairman of Willamette Dental. It provides general preventive dentistry, hygiene and orthodontia.
KMC business office moves
Continually growing out of its space, Kootenai Medical Center has moved its business offices to the former Empire Airlines building at 2115 Government Way (beside Wild Waters). Thirty-three employees moved and will return to KMC when it expands into the neighboring Panhandle Health building in three or four years.
A few business employees remain at KMC for patient convenience from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays, and the personnel staff will move into the vacated space. The accounting staff will move from its spaces in the Skyview Building to the Government Way offices later.
Comfort Keepers to move
Comfort Keepers home health care specialists is building an office building at 820 E. Best Ave. Dodge Construction will build a 1,400-square-foot facility to replace the current house.
Owner Kathy Oswald, with a staff of 44 field employees and two office staffers, hopes to move in January from Sunset Village. They provide in-home care to senior citizens and disabled people.
Originally from Spokane, Oswald said she and her late husband, Tom, discovered Comfort Keepers when they were looking for care for her 96-year-old grandmother. With 450 offices around the nation, Comfort Keepers’ headquarters is in Dayton, Ohio. In Coeur d’Alene, phone 765-9511.