Creative professionals converge in downtown's Rockford Building

Twelve rooms for creative designers are planned for the renovated Rockford Building at 504 E. Lakeside.

The 450-square-foot studios are equipped with skylights and storage lofts, and two are available for the April 1 opening, according to owner Tanden Launder. His Bulwark Barber shop and business will move there from Third Street.

“The concept is to create a convergence of creative professionals in the heart of Coeur d’Alene,” he said. It will be popular during the monthly Artwalk and close to the summer Farmers Market on Fifth. Check www.rockfordbuilding.com.

Bloom Salon moves in Hayden

New looks and a variety of quality professional products are offered at Bloom Salon, which has moved to the LCT Professional Building at 8382 N. Wayne Drive in Hayden.

The eight employees offer hair and barber services, esthetics, permanent cosmetics, microblading and soon eyelash extensions. Usual hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

“We care about our clients’ hair and skin and their overall health and well-being,” said owner Kristi Agueros. She is joined by Kris Clancy, Lisa Kaastad, Ronda Bowling, Jenn Smart, Ashley Hughes, Annie Lowry and Angelina Seibert.

They offer products with highest quality ingredients and not harsh chemicals. Phone 208-719-0555. Check www.bloomsalonhayden.com.

Another 2,500 square feet of space that may include a buildout is available through Cory Turnbull at 208-691-2995

North Idaho Landscape Supplies in Hayden

Offering just as the name outlines, North Idaho Landscape Supplies is now what Reed Enterprises has been for many years at 11631 N. Government Way in Hayden.

Owner AAron DuPuis and wife Victoria now have what her father, Frank Reed, offered with screened topsoil, fill dirt, garden mixes, 20 varieties of ground rock, crushed rock and gravels and six types of beauty bark. The products can be picked up or delivered. The loaders have special-size buckets that can accommodate smaller pickup truck beds, trailers and dump trucks.

The place will open this month, weather permitting. Check www.northidaho landscapesupplies.com. Phone 208-772-1883.

Bakery By the Lake adds second place

The second location for Bakery By the Lake will be a 3,400-square-foot building on East Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive next to O’Shay’s Pub.

It will include a cafe, drive-through, a roll-up window to patio seating along the Centennial Trail and a fireplace. It will be open daily for breakfast, lunch and evening appetizers with wine and beer by June 1 with about 20 employees.

Owners Frank Pigott and son Andrew have had Bakery By the Lake at 601 E. Front for 10 years. Phone 208-415-0681. Check www.bakerybythelake.com.

Now for the Tidbits

- A new San Francisco Sourdough Eatery will open soon in the Eagles Landing gas station and convenience store at Kathleen and Government Way.

- Alpine Animal Hospital is building a new clinic at Kathleen and Player Drive.

- Country Primitive is closed after about 20 years at 6055 Government Way.

- A Maverik gas station-convenience store is under construction at State Line. And a new Maverik will be built in the southwest corner of Government Way and Dalton Avenue.

- Credit unions under construction in Rathdrum are P1FCU and STCU. And Mountain America Credit Union will be in the former Inland Northwest Bank building in Post Falls.

- HuHot Mongolian Grill will occupy the former Payless Shoes space and more in Ironwood Square.

- AutoZone is building a new place at Highway 54 and Sylvan Lane in Athol.

- An “at home” store will be in the former Kmart building at Neider and Highway 95. Other retail and/or restaurant space will be in the former garden area to the west.

- North Idaho Blueprint will move to Hayden.

- A Crown & Thistle “Coming Soon” sign is at 107 N. Fourth.

- Continuous Composites at 215 E. Lakeside is adding the neighboring former Rocker Room building to its complex.

- An Orthopedic Specialties Institute will be at 1233 N. Northwood Center Court.

- The Filling Station gastropub-growler shop will be at 306 N. Spokane St. in Post Falls.

- Consign Furniture will build a new structure in Riverstone.

- Roger’s Ice Cream & Burgers, already with two places in Coeur d’Alene and one in Post Falls, is building a fourth, this one at 8833 N. Hess St. in Hayden.

- Franz Bakery will move from 1220 Government Way to 500 W. Dalton.

- Lush Intimate Apparel will move from 206 E. Indiana Ave. to Suite 1 at 1111 E. Sherman. Details later.

- The Locker Room on Government Way will move to the former Long Ear building on Fourth Street.

- A&B Market will open as a convenience store at 402 Sherman soon.

- Paragon Brewing will open its new building at 5785 Government Way soon.

- Coeur d’Alene Vision Source is building a new place at 3879 N. Schreiber Way.

- Hibachi Sushi is coming to 221 E. Sherman. We hear a German restaurant will be where Camera Corral left (for Northwest Boulevard) on Sherman.

- A new Fu-Ki Japanese Steakhouse is under construction where the Kynrede Cafe was at 8885 N. Government Way in Hayden.

- Staybridge Suites hotel is under construction in Riverstone. A Marriott Fairfield Inn is planned for nearby on Ironwood.

- A new building for Idaho Central Credit Union is under construction at 1327 W. Appleway. And a new one for Keller Williams Realty will open soon at 3931 Schreiber Way.

- North Idaho Eye Institute has a building under construction across from the Hayden library.

- It’s an hour earlier today. And places with roadside clocks, remember to reset them.

- ”Same exact” is redundant. So is “12 noon.”

- A 15-year-old checked on a potential job in a restaurant, but it wasn’t what she wanted. “Everyone kept telling me what to do — even the dishwasher,” she said. Her 7-year-old brother asked, “Their dishwasher can talk?”

- Contact Nils Rosdahl at [email protected].