Upgrade Focus: Northwest Boulevard

Officials, neighbors and anyone with an interest in public space is being asked to dust off an old idea, and start brainstorming — again. It’s time to help plan what ‘The Four Corners’ should look like. But this time around the area has grown considerably. No longer reserved for the corner area on Northwest Boulevard next to the Coeur d’Alene Chamber, City Park, Kootenai County administrative building and the Museum of North Idaho, the site has expanded to include a 29-acre stretch thanks to the federal Bureau of Land Management agreeing to lease abandoned railroad line to the city. So, the ‘Four Corners reaches to Riverstone now. And the city of Coeur d’Alene wants to know what it should do with all that real estate that sits adjacent the well-traveled Northwest Boulevard/ Coeur d’Alene Press . More here.

Question: Anyone remember what Northwest Boulevard looked like prior to the opening of The Spokesman-Review building, next to Paul Bunyan restaurant, in 1994?