Hagadone Hospitality Co. expects to move forward with design of its Sherman Tower expansion of the Coeur d'Alene Resort, pending approval from the the city of Coeur d'Alene's design review committee. 

At press time, a design-review hearing on the project was scheduled for March 28. Bill Reagan, president of the resort hotel, said earlier in March that if the project's design receives the go-ahead at that meeting, work on the construction drawings will start shortly thereafter. He anticipates completion of those drawings in November and selection of a contractor in early 2025. The hotel tower is expected to be completed in 2027. 

Cory Trapp, principal at Hayden-based Longwell+Trapp Architects PLLC, is the architect of record on the project. 

As envisioned, the Sherman Tower project will involve construction of a 15-story tower one block north of The Coeur d'Alene Resort, on the north side of Sherman Avenue, between First and Second streets. The building would include 139 guest rooms and be designed in such a way that each room would have views of Lake Coeur d'Alene to the south and west. 

Rooms are expected to average 510 square feet of space. Other amenities planned in the building include retail space on Sherman Avenue, a fitness center, a business office, and a café that would serve morning coffee and evening cocktails in the lobby.

Reagan declines to disclose an estimated construction value of the project until construction drawings are further along. 

At its present scope, the Sherman Tower project would increase The Coeur d'Alene Resort's room inventory by almost 50% upon opening and cater to leisure travelers. 

"It'll be good for us, because right now, we're turning down guests," Reagan says. 

Currently, The Coeur d'Alene Resort has more than 300 guest rooms in three wings of the property: the Lake Tower, the Park Tower, and the North Wing.

The company has said it likely will hire an additional 100 to 125 people to staff the property. 

The hotel's proposed site along Sherman Avenue is home to a three-story office building, an old restaurant structure, and surface parking. 

"(The project) will really clean up the appearance of that block when you come into downtown," Reagan says.