Apartments Coming To Vacant Field

Ah, the ways we find things for this column… One way is spies. A fellow (whose email address I lost) asked “What’s going on between Safeway and Black Sheep?” I replied that I’d check. When I did check with the Cd’A Building Department at the time, they had no record. Then, the next day — There it is in the Building Permits, another way to check what’s going on. And it’s rather major although it’s not really commercial and the dude who can give us the details hasn’t responded yet. It’s a 121-unit apartment complex called Affinity at Coeur d’Alene. It includes a pool house and garages. The permit values total almost $8 million. But we don’t know the sizes of the places, when they’ll be ready for occupancy and prices, etc. More later/ Nils Rosdahl , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

Question: The building permit above calls for a 121-unit apartment complex in the vacant field east of the Black Sheep, where an old drive-in once stood. Did you ever attend a movie at that drive-in?