New Domino's Pizza location coming soon to Mt. Spokane area

 

Regional Domino's Pizza franchise owner Pacific Pie,Inc. is working on a new location coming soon to the Mead / Mt. Spokane area. After renovations are complete Domino's Pizza will take over the former Your Mom's Soda Shop storefront at 14017 N. Newport Hwy Suite A in the Mt. Spokane Village shopping center. 

There isn't a set opening date for this new restaurant just yet as we're just told it hit a few delays and should be open before the end of the year. Domino's Pizza of course has numerous locations already around the Inland Northwest with the closest one to this site being over 4 miles away on N. Division. Work on the new location is being done by Spokane based Design Pro Construction, LLC. 

Indigenous Chic opening soon on River Park Square

 

The owners of Indigenous Eats have grown their small locally owned restaurant to two locations with numerous awards for their delicious menu of contemporary Native American comfort foods. But now they are branching out and investing in Spokane with another new business. 

A recent post by the business on social media announced that co-owner Jenny Slagle is expanding her vision for celebrating Native culture and creativity with the opening of Indigenous Chic. The new business will be a retail store in River Park Square in Downtown Spokane on the second floor of the mall where Made in Washington was previously located. Indigenous Chic will be a Native owned boutique with a selection of clothing, jewelry, accessories, and home decor made Indigenous artists and makers.

Work has already started to get the new store space ready, and they plan to open the store on November 1st. For more information on Indigenous Chic visit their website at https://www.indigenouschic.shop/ and give them a follow-on social media via Facebook or Instagram

New pad sites come available at a Trader Joe's anchored development

 

In the market for land to build your business in Spokane? Or just want a site to watch for new businesses coming to Spokane? One of the most prime spaces has just opened up as the owners of the parcel around the former Burlington store in the 5800 block of N. Division have divided portions of the parking lot into 3 three new pad sites. The sites are directly on N. Division and the parking area is connected with the Franklin Park Shopping Center that is home to Trader Joe's and a few other in-demand retailers.

The former two-story Burlington store will soon be redeveloped as a new Extra Space storage facility. Additionally, the former Rite Aid store on the site has re-opened as a CVS Pharmacy store. Spokane based Hawkins Edwards is marketing the space and says they have already had interest since opening them up. They are offering three separate pad sites for various types of businesses, but the site bodes well for restaurants and other drive through business with good visibility from the 41,000+ vehicles passing the site daily on Division.

The pad sites are being offered available for ground lease or build to suit, with more information on pricing and availability directly from Hawkins Edwards via Kevin Edwards 509-939-8828 or k.edwards@me.com or Ben Hawkins 509-951-1848 or bhawkins@me.com

What would you like to see open at these new pad sites?

Twigs Bistro & Martini Bar to open in Downtown Coeur d' Alene

 

The local favorite, Twigs Bistro and Martini Bar is coming over the Idaho border with a new location coming soon to Downtown Coeur d' Alene. The Spokane based restaurant is a small chain of seven locations with the new Coeur d' Alene store becoming their eighth.

Twigs Bistro and Martini bar offers a full bar including their famous craft cocktails and delicious menu of entrees, handhelds, pizzas and more with vegan and gluten free options also available. The new Coeur d' Alene Twigs will be smaller than their current locations but will offer both indoor and outdoor dining and will be located on the ground floor commercial space of the new Thomas George high rise building at the corner of 3nd and Front. The plan calls for the new restaurant to open in either late 2025 or early 2026.

Courtesy photo- Hayden Anderl

The Thomas George Building remains under construction but is already 85% sold out with only 9 condo units remaining for sale in the development. Once completed the Thomas George will be an 18-story building with 60 residential condos of varying floor plans. Another commercial space is also available on the ground floor but it's too early to confirm any other tenants at this point. 

For more information on sales at the new Thomas George Building, contact Hayden Anderl at 208-964-0234 , email hayden@cbinw.com or visit https://www.thomasgeorgecda.com/ And, for more information on Twigs Bistro and Martini Bar, visit their website at http://twigsbistro.com

Several new businesses now open at River Park Square

Downtown Spokane's River Park Square shopping center is alive and well with a few new places joining the center's roster recently. First of all, relocating from across the street in the Cresent Court building to a new larger store space is the fitness and active wear chain, lululemon.

The new River Park Square lululemon is located on the ground floor of the mall and opened on October 1st with a ribbon cutting celebration. "We are thrilled to welcome lululemon to River Park Square" said Rita Koefod, senior director of marketing for River Park Square. "The new store is beautiful and the brand fits perfectly with our always evolving mix of retail, dining and lifestyle experiences. Their team is passionate about forming local connections and hosting unique events, so we look forward to many partnership opportunities as we head into the busy holiday season"

In addition to lululemon, Gene Juarez Salon & Spa has recently opened their first ever location in Eastern Washington at River Park Square...

For decades, Gene Juarez Salon & Spa has been a destination for guests in Seattle and Bellevue, many of whom would travel long distances for advanced hair, skin and spa services. The new River Park Square Gene Juarez location is in a 4200 square foot space, also on the ground floor of the mall. It features 16 styling stations, two private spa treatment rooms, and a curated boutique of professional products. 

Additionally, a few other stores have also joined the mall recently including:

Trailbreaker Cider offering handcrafted locally produced ciders.

Simple Wildflower a women's clothing boutique that also features a permanent jewelry bar.

Cellaxs Professional phone and tablet repair.

Peak Sneaks sneakers and accessories.

For more information on River Park Square, including leasing information just in time for the holiday season, visit their website at https://www.riverparksquare.com/

Club Pilates opening new studio in Post Falls

 

Courtesy photo of the location of the new Club Pilates Post Falls.

Club Pilates, the world's largest premium Pilates brand recently announced it will open a new locally owned and operated studio in Post Falls. The new studio will be located in the River City Plaza shopping center at 950 N. ID Highway 41, Suite 8 and is currently planned to open on December 11th. In anticipation of the new studio opening, Club Pilates Post Falls is offering 20% off of the lifetime of the membership and no enrollment fee for their first 50 founding members. 

The Post Falls studio will be owned and operated by Salubre,LLC, which also owns Club Pilates South Spokane, North Spokane, Spokane Valley and Hayden. They say Post Falls was chosen as the next location for a local Club Pilates studio through customer demand, and it will bridge the gap of minimal Pilates studios located in-between Hayden/Coeur d' Alene and Spokane Valley.

Club Pilates is an international brand designed to with the vision of making Pilates more accessible, approachable and welcoming to everyone. Club Pilates was founded in 2007 and has over 1000 studios globally and continues to grow. For more information about how to become a member of the new Club Pilates Post Falls location, visit http://clubpilates.com/postfalls or call 208-626-2163.

Evergreen Refillery opens in Cheney

 

Courtesy photos provided by Evergreen Refillery

A new eco-friendly business, that even features some merchandise from other eco-friendly and/or local businesses is now open in Cheney. Evergreen Refillery, located at 502 W. 1st in Downtown Cheney is similar to other refillery style businesses and is helping customers eliminate single use plastics by bringing jars or using ones provided in the store to fill with an assortment of eco-friendly cleaning, laundry and other home liquids, lotions, bars, etc. Just pick a jar, fill the jar, weigh the jar and pay and feel better about your impact on the earth.

Some may recognize Evergreen Refillery already as they spent the summer as a vendor at the Cheney Farmers Market prior to opening their new storefront space. As of my writing this they are Wed-Fri 10-5 and Sat-Sun 12-4, closed Mon-Tues however consult the business directly to confirm their business hours. In addition to items to refill Evergreen also carries an assortment of other similar retail items.

For more information on Evergreen Refillery, give them a visit on social media via Instagram or Facebook

Couple of new multi-family developments coming to the South Perry District

 Soon there will be more places to live in Spokane's South Perry neighborhood. That's because two separate developments from two different developers are currently in the planning phase in the neighborhood and when built they will add over 130 new apartments to the in-demand area. First of all is:

1217 E. Newark Ave. 

Located on a recently vacated lot on Newark at the corner of Denver St and in the curve just north of The Bike Hub a local developer is working on a future four story building that will house 40 apartments with 43 surface parking spaces. This development recently cleared the SEPA application process and in the SEPA application they indicate they hope to begin construction during the spring/summer of 2026. 

The development is still in the planning phase so we have not been able to confirm if these will be market rate apartments or some other sort of tenancy. There also is no general contractor or renderings available on it just yet however according to documents filed with the City of Spokane the architectural work for this new project is being done by Trek Architecture.

819 S. Hatch St.

Mentioned as Hatch Garden Apartments in paperwork, this development will likely end up being called The Summit and will be built as two four story apartment buildings and a separate club house / leasing office building with a total of 94 rental units once opened. The project is being developed by CM Development & Construction and will be just north of the Wisconsin Burger restaurant.

Representatives with CM did not reply to our requests for more information, but they did recently speak with our friends and colleagues over at the Spokane Journal of Business where they indicated these new apartments will be market rate units geared towards students and young professionals. Actual construction on The Summit should start in the Spring of 2026. For more information, including a look at the renderings of what The Summit will look like once completed check out the Journal of Business' story about it at https://www.spokanejournal.com/articles/17479-the-summit-apartments

Sweet Tooth now open on the South Hill

Courtesy photo via Anna @Spokaneplayground

Do you often times find yourself with a bit of a sweet tooth? Same! Then you'll want to join me in checking out a new locally owned and operated business on the South Hill called Sweet Tooth. Sweet Tooth can be found at 1230 S. Grand in a space that was once a Baskin Robbins.

Sweet Tooth is currently in the soft opening phase with an official grand opening coming on October 1st. The store is launching with donuts (over 50 varieties that rotate daily), some other baked goods and a decent coffee menu with coffee coming from Spokane based Cedar Coffee as the owner of that business, former Ukrainian refugee Igor Anisimov is also the owner of Sweet Tooth. For those who don't drink coffee, Sweet Tooth also sells teas and a couple other options.

We're also hearing that in the future Sweet Tooth will also carry Eastern European Cakes, quiches and sandwiches.

New map showing what's being built where...

 I've finally re-done the Google Map showing construction projects in the Spokane, Coeur d' Alene and Post Falls area! There might be places I've missed so feel free to reach out to ask and let me know (matt.behringer@inlandnwbusiness.com). This will also be missing many residential subdivisions, educational projects and run of the mill apartment complexes as I've always tried to make this site more commercial and industrial focused, but because of that it should have the vast majority of those projects.

Also, feel free to reach out or search this site if you need more info about a particular project.

And, if this benefits you, we do welcome donations via Buy me a Coffee at-

https://buymeacoffee.com/inlandnwbusiness

Port of Subs to drop anchor in North Spokane

 

Port of Subs is coming back to Spokane as the Reno,NV based company recently reached an agreement with entrepreneur, Ben Pearson to act as a regional developer and open a several new franchised locations throughout our area. The first of which is already a work in progress in North Spokane at 7808 N. Division Ave. Suite 1 which was last used as an unrelated Firehouse Subs restaurant.

This new Port of Subs will occupy the 2000 square foot space with some remodeling being done before opening, construction will commence once the building permits are granted. The general contractor for said work is listed as to be determined on documents filed with the city. Currently Pearson hopes to open this new location in January 2026 and it will feature indoor dining, carry out and delivery of Port of Subs menu of delicious sub sandwiches.  The company also has a convenient rewards app for easy online ordering. The company operates 145 locations and growing as of 2020 and has been in business since its founding as "Sub Shop" in 1972 in Sparks,NV.

This will be the first of likely many Port of Subs restaurants coming soon to the Inland Northwest. Pearson is currently seeking qualified franchisees to join and open Port of Subs locations. They currently plan to open 10 or more new stores between the Tri-Cities, Spokane and North Idaho. No other locations are set yet as of my writing this, but they are actively seeking new spaces.

For more information about Port of Subs, visit their website at https://portofsubs.com/

Franchise deal likely bringing more Wienerschnitzel restaurants to Spokane

 

After many delays and a slow construction process, the first Wienerschnitzel restaurant in the Spokane area opened in early 2024 at 10220 N. Newport Hwy and still remains open. But now with a recently announced franchise deal Spokane will be able to get their wiener fix even easier with more new restaurants from the quick service chain coming in the near future.

Boise based entrepreneur, Del Bufalo has opened two locations in the Boise area with his second opening recently in Meridian and has now signed on to open Wienerschnitzel stores in our area as well. He explains via press release. "We've seen consistent demand and an enthusiastic customer base here in Idaho. Expanding into Spokane is the natural next step, and I'm excited to introduce even more communities to our unique menu and guest experience" . The agreement is for Bufalo to open four new locations in the greater Spokane, WA and Post Falls - Coeur d' Alene,ID area. 

However, this is just the announcement of a franchise agreement, and no exact locations can be announced yet, nor can their opening dates. Wienerschnitzel reports having 340 franchised locations in operation throughout 13 states and 50 more units in various stages of development across the United States. The company is based in Tustin,CA and hot dogs and other fast food style menu items. For more information on Wienerschnitzel visit their website at http://wienerschnitzel.com/