North Idaho

Sales swell for StanCraft Boats

North Idaho manufacturer looks to expand its new facilities in Hayden

April 27, 2017

Barely a year after settling into its Hayden headquarters and production facility, Stan-Craft Boat Co., the North Idaho-based maker of hand-built wooden boats, has launched plans to expand its operations there this summer, says StanCraft president and co-

Space studies blast off at North Idaho STEM Charter Academy

North Idaho STEM Academy to send own satellite into orbit

April 13, 2017

Mike McLean

Students at North Idaho STEM Charter Academy, in Rathdrum, have started up their own space program, dubbed Project DaVinci, and they hope to inspire excitement among younger people around the world about science, technology, engineering, and math-and sp

Software dealer expands to West Side

PF-based company also serves Oregon educators

March 30, 2017

Mike McLean

Quest Integration Inc., a Post Falls-based specialty manufacturing-design software seller and support provider, has expanded into Western Washington with a new office in West Seattle, says Chantel Wilkes, a Quest spokeswoman. The new office adds to Quest

Downtown Cd'A structure to be converted into hotel

Project involves rebuilding level lost to fire years ago

March 30, 2017

Mike McLean

New owners of a downtown Coeur d'Alene retail and office building known as the Dingle Building plan to convert and expand the structure into a boutique hotel to be named CDA Grand Hotel, planning information on file with the city of Coeur d'Alene show

Upscale apartment project slated in Cd'A

Springtime construction start eyed for $3.5 million project

March 16, 2017

Mike McLean

A $3.5 million apartment complex planned in east Coeur d'Alene will target mid- to upper-income renters, which Coeur d'Alene real estate investor and broker Ben Widmyer says is an emerging market there. The project, Lake Drive Apartments, will be loc

Franchisee for Papa John's to expand

Moore plans restaurant along Newport Highway

March 2, 2017

Papa John's Pizza franchisee Ken Moore says he has leased 1,250 square feet of space for a new restaurant in a multitenant retail building at 9600 N. Newport Highway, in the Mead area north of Spokane. Moore, who's been a franchisee with the Jefferso

Blue Water Technologies' new owner moves office to Post Falls

Nexom keeps engineering operations in North Idaho

March 2, 2017

Mike McLean

Nexom Inc., a Wisconsin-based wastewater treatment technology provider, has moved the former Blue Water Technologies Inc. office to Post Falls, says research and development manager CJ Strain. The Nexom office now occupies 1,900 square feet of leased spa

North Star fully occupied; addition mostly reserved

Cd'A retirement center promotes active lives

February 16, 2017

Mike McLean

North Star Retirement & Assisted Living Community, in Coeur d'Alene, has been full for the last year, and a planned new addition is almost completely reserved, says Becky Georgius, a family adviser and marketing specialist at North Star. The growing

PuroClean eyes Spokane, Coeur d'Alene for possible franchises

Company specializes in damage restoration

February 16, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

PuroClean, a fire and water damage restoration franchise owned by Florida-based PuroSystems LLC, says hopes to add 60 new franchisees to its network this year, including two operations in the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area. PuroClean provides fire and smok