Handle on business: Hayden Creek Plaza new arrival – Baby Cottage

Spaces in the attractive Northwest-style Hayden Creek Plaza continue to fill.

Baby Cottage will open next Saturday in 1,275 square feet of space next to the Storybook Bridal store.

Expanding from its Spokane Valley Mall location, Baby Cottage carries specialty products, gifts, footwear and clothing for preemies through 4-year-olds. It also offers children’s wedding tuxedos and dresses.

Owner Anna Smith opened the first store after she had noticed a need for clothing for premature babies when she was a neonatal intensive-care nurse in Spokane.

A Sandpoint native, she was educated in San Diego and returned to North Idaho with her family in 2004.

With three employees, the new Baby Cottage store will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. An opening-day sale will start at 10 a.m.

Phone: 772-3737. Web site: www.babycottagegifts.com.

Ciao Mambo plans September opening

Also in Hayden Creek Plaza, Ciao Mambo restaurant is expected to open in September in the corner space next to the Picket Fence store.

With table and booth seating plus a bar in 4,700 square feet of space, the Italian restaurant will serve dinner daily and have 40 to 55 employees.

The business is owned by the Glacier Restaurant Group, which also has 12 McKenzie River Pizza restaurants in Montana; Ciao Mambo restaurants in Missoula and Whitefish, Mont.; and the Craggy Range Bar andGrill in Sandpoint and Whitefish.

The company also plans a McKenzie River Pizza restaurant in a new building north of Hayden Creek Plaza.

Check out www.ciaomambo.com.

Wild Goose Plaza on Government Way

With 11 spaces for retail and service businesses, Phase I of Wild Goose Plaza is under construction at 6040 Government Way across from the Painted Pony minimall.

Three buildings are under construction or planned on 2.4 acres.

The first, with three spaces of 1,200, 2,200 and 2,200 square feet, is to be completed in mid-August. Buildings 2 and 3 are to follow with four spaces in each of 1,400 square feet.

For more information, phone Karen Fisher at 660-6605 or Craig Hunter at 929-2929.

This week’s tidbits

“Wild West Log Furniture, 402 Neider Ave., plans to move into the World of Art building at the southwest corner of U.S. Highway 95 and Dalton Avenue by the end of October. Owners Carol and Clay Folda are buying the building as World of Art quits business. They have six employees.

“Cheapskates store of outdated items has closed on Sherman Avenue in Coeur d’Alene.

“Sunday will be the last day of business for Animal House Pets and Supplies in Silver Lake Mall. Owners Dave and Kathy Chesnutt are retiring after running the business for 14 years.

“Watch for a new car sales business in the lot at the southwest corner of Fourth Street and Spruce Avenue in Coeur d’Alene. The lot once held the used cars of Beaudry Subaru, which was located across the street.