Hayden-based StanCraft Boat Co. has been experiencing strong growth with a 30% increase in total sales since the start of the pandemic, says Jory Schmeling, vice president of manufacturing at the handmade wooden boat manufacturing company.

Exotic ornamental fish store The Marine Ravine is set to open this fall in Hayden. Owner Eric Cross says the store will open by early October at 2235 W. Dakota, in the Dakota Park Industrial Condos, just south of Coeur d'Alene

Kootenai Classical Academy is planned on 11 acres of farmland, at the northwest corner of North Meyer Road and West Prairie Avenue, on the northern edge of the city of Post Falls, says Ed Kaitz, board chair of the public charter school.

Chris Cargill, director of the Washington Policy Center's Eastern Washington office, has announced he will step down in September to become the president and CEO of a new think tank organization, Mountain States Policy Center.

The Journal of Business has selected its 2022 class of Rising Stars. They are: •Jessica Atkinson, CEO, Sweet Frostings. •Justin Botejue, physician relations liaison, Shriner's Children's Spokane.

Habitat for Humanity of North Idaho Inc. is preparing a 1.5-acre site to construct a $4 million, 21-unit condominium development in Coeur d'Alene. The site is located at 3246 N. Second, about a block south of the Costco Wholesale Corp. warehouse store

Construction of an 18-story, 60-unit, upscale high-rise condominium building, to be dubbed The Thomas George, will begin this summer in downtown Coeur d'Alene, says Hayden Anderl, luxury property specialist and Realtor for Coeur d'Alene-based