Two condominium projects, each with a value of about $25 million and together totaling about 180 living units, have been proposed for Hayden, Idaho, just north of Coeur dAlene.


One project, a 58-unit complex to be called Prairie Village, already has been given preliminary approval by the Hayden City Council. Its being developed by Coeur dAlene businessman Don Smock. The other, envisioned to have 120 to 125 condominium units, is being developed by Silverstone Development Corp., of Coeur dAlene, and is to be called Honeysuckle Glade. The City Council was slated to consider preliminary approval of that project earlier this week.


The two projects would be located a short distance apart, about a quarter-mile west of U.S. 95. Prairie Village is to be located just north of Prairie Avenue between Cornerstone and Marabou drives, while Honeysuckle Glade would be situated just north of there on the south side of Honeysuckle Avenue, the next major arterial to the north.


Lisa Key, the city of Haydens community development director, says that in addition to the two condominium projects, two planned unit development proposals are pending in the small North Idaho city, and several more are in the developmental stages.


Prairie Village


The Prairie Village development is expected to include 58 condominium units and a 12,500-square-foot commercial building that will house a new real estate brokerage called Windermere Coeur dAlene Realty of Hayden and other tenants, says Smock, who will be an owner in that brokerage. (See related story on page B5 of our print edition)


If the city gives the project final approval, work on the retail building will begin in March, and the condominium project will get under way in April, says Smock.


The Prairie Village condominium units will be located behind and north of the commercial building. They will include four two-story condominium buildings with four units each, and 14 single-story buildings that will house three units each, says Key. Smock says the units will have roughly 1,800 square feet of floor space and at least two bedrooms and two bathrooms each.


The development also will include park-like land, trails, and a community garden, and will have a density far less than whats allowed under the zoning there, Smock says.


The project will be built by Columbia Construction Co, of Coeur dAlene, a business launched in 2002 by Smock and Dallan Pope, his co-owner and son-in-law.


Lindquist Architects PS, of Spokane, is the designer on the project.


Smock says he has built more than 200 homes over the past 20-plus years through different business ventures.


The proposed development is located on about 8.6 acres of land purchased earlier from Hayden-based golf-club maker Henry-Griffitts Inc., which will continue to operate its 18-employee manufacturing plant on the 1.2 commercial acres it kept adjacent to that land.


Key says the City Council has given Smock approval in concept for his preliminary PUD plan, but still must hold a public hearing for both his final PUD plan and preliminary subdivision application. Key anticipates that process will take an additional 60 days.


Its a quasi-judicial process that will require a public hearing, but if he meets the conditions of approval and concept, I doubt there will be any real issues of contention, Key says.


Honeysuckle Glade


Honeysuckle Glade, meanwhile, was recommended for approval by the Hayden planning and zoning commission and was to be up for an initial review before the City Council earlier this week.


One of four owners of Silverstone Development, Wade Jacklin, of Coeur dAlene, says the final number and configuration of condo units at Honeysuckle Glade is still being negotiated with the city, but he anticipates that the project will include between 120 and 125 living units. He says most of the units will be built three to a building.


Condominiums there will range in size from two-bedroom, two-bathroom units with about 1,300 square feet of floor space to three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom units with more than 2,000 square feet of space, Jacklin says. He projects the units will be priced at between $200,000 and $230,000.


That development, to be built on about 18 acres, will be completely landscaped with park-like land, trails, water features, a gazebo, basketball courts, and a playground, he says, adding that work wouldnt start on the project until next year at the earliest.


One of Jacklins partners in Silverstone Development, Jon Harper, owns and operates Lakewood Homes, a Coeur dAlene custom home-building company that has built more than 100 homes since the early 1990s, says Jacklin.


Jacklin and Harper formed Silverstone Development three years ago, folding Lakewood Homes into it, and since then have built more than 15 high-end, single-family homes in Post Falls, Coeur dAlene, and Hayden ranging in price from $400,000 to more than $1 million, Jacklin says.


Key says Silverstones plans call for Reed Road, which currently has its southernmost point at Honeysuckle Avenue, to be extended south into the Honeysuckle Glade development, with the developer paying the cost of the extension.


Prairie Village is only the second development approved in Hayden since its new PUD ordinance was adopted late last year, says Key.


The first was a 30-acre gated community developed by Hayden resident Mike Sperle, Key says. In that project 32 large lots are being developed on the west side of Strahorn Road about one mile north of Lacey Avenue. That development is called Bear Creek Estates, she says.