Car washes at the speed of sound
Automatic car washes have really changed, and Coeur d'Alene will have the newest next spring. It will be 240 feet long and a full operation can clean about four cars a minute or 2,500 in a work day.
Metro Express Car Wash is under construction on 1.5 acres at 3131 Conference Drive (east of Highway 95 between Aspen Sound and Natural Grocers). It will include a water reclamation system, biodegradable detergents, stickers for monthly pass holders to use a VIP lane, digital video cameras to track cars and know the amount of detergent and water used for each one. The place will have 28 free vacuum stations and employ about 10 people.
Owner Bill Martin has owned a dozen car washes in Idaho, Washington, Missouri and Kansas and started the company in 2004. Costs here will be $8 to $12.
Exercise Institute relocating
The Exercise Institute will be moving from its Merritt Creek location in Riverstone to Suite 100C at 1960 Beebe Blvd. (near Red Robin Restaurant).
The new facility will offer four fully-equipped exercise rooms, each private, climate controlled and staffed with five professionally trained professional instructors. The facility will offer private consultation rooms for personalized nutritional and educational support. Hours will be 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and Saturday by appointment.
Founder and president Mike Teater started in Coeur d'Alene in 1995 and now has a division to manage the sales and operations of Exercise Institute franchise opportunities. Other locations now are in Hayden, Sandpoint, Liberty Lake and at 8214 Government Way.
Timely exercise programs are the major point with clients encouraged to have private, personal 15-minute exercise sessions once or twice a week.
"Modern-day concepts of exercise are out of date and need revising," Teater said. "It isn't how much the body can endure that matters, but how little it takes to trigger the body's own strength-building capacity. The results are produced by low friction, self-correcting, variable-resistance machines designed for proper muscle and joint function. The goals are to succeed at strength training, osteoporosis bone strengthening, prenatal fitness and weight loss."
A grand opening will be scheduled. Phone 666-9094. Check www.exerciseinstitute.com.
Now for the Tidbits
- Watch for news on CdA Nail Salon in Crossroads, Chamira and Climbworks in the Plaza Shoppes, Animal Medical Center on Fourth Street, Anytime Fitness on Kathleen, The Cork & Tap in Riverstone and Summit Cider on Schreiber Way.
- Buffalo Wild Wings opened this past week at 407 W. Neider (off Highway 95 in Super Supplements Mall). Hours are 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Saturday and until midnight Sundays. Even the patio has TVs. Phone 667-0042.
- Our recent British visitors say U.S. items that would make it (but aren't there now) in Britain are corn dogs, drive-through coffees and automatic car washes.
- "Same exact" is redundant.
- A real headline: "Midget sues grocer for belittling remarks."
- The Noodle Express in Post Falls closed. The one in Prairie Shopping Center remains open.
- Contact Nils Rosdahl at nrosdahl@cdapress.com.