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DOWNTOWN: Coeur no more

| June 13, 2025 1:00 AM

This past Friday, not having been downtown for quite a while, we decided to park by NIC, walk through town, then have dinner.

Backtracking to 1979-80, downtown business and property owners had been fretting for months at the prospect of downtown ruination due to the upcoming Silver Lake Mall. To finally put an end to this unproductive griping we gathered a number of business owners with the emphasis on those who owned their own properties. The plan was for the Coeur d’Alene Development Association to revitalize the downtown area to make it unique and its success separate from and immune to the fortunes of the mall.

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