Selkirk Sport LLC has been named a finalist for the Large Business of the Year category in the Journal's 2025 Inland Northwest Business of the Year Awards.

The first phase of construction for the Prairie Medical Campus in Post Falls is expected to kick off this month and conclude in December 2027.

A $200 million Interstate 90 widening project is now underway in Kootenai County just as two other multiyear freeway improvement projects with a total construction value of $108 million are nearing completion.

Two downtown Coeur d’Alene hotel projects — a Marriott-brand hotel and Hagadone Hospitality Co.’s Sherman Tower project — are both in the middle stages of construction and expected to wrap up in 2027.

Work is continuing on the Millworx urban center in Post Falls, where Spokane-based developer A&A Construction & Development Inc. is breaking ground on a new mixed-use building dubbed Silo Block North.

The first phase of construction is expected to begin soon on a new sports complex featuring multiuse fields, pickleball courts, and baseball fields in northeast Post Falls.

Spokane-based nonprofit Inland Northwest Land Conservancy has secured a conservation easement along the foothills of Mica Peak in North Idaho that add 300 acres of natural area, known as Quail Haven, to the more than 30,000 acres of land the organization currently protects.

Dallas-based Sunflower Bank N.A. has consolidated two Spokane branches into one new licensed depository branch and is expanding into North Idaho with the opening of a new loan production office in Coeur d’Alene to meet high demand in the Inland Northwest region.  

Selkirk Sport LLC, a North Idaho manufacturer of pickleball paddles and accessories, has received a $30 million investment from Bluestone Equity Partners, intended to transform Selkirk from a domestic pickleball leader into a global sports brand, says co-founder and co-CEO Mike Barnes.

A large industrial building at 140 N. Beck Road in Post Falls is being further transformed into a pickleball destination, as plans call for a 24-court indoor club alongside Selkirk Sport’s pickleball products manufacturing and fulfillment center.