The One Building on Spokane Street That Isn't Going Anywhere
September 10, 2026
September 10, 2026
Drive down Spokane Street in Post Falls this month and you will pass at least two active construction sites, a decades-old mini-mart with a redevelopment sign somewhere in its future, and a peeling Victorian porch that has outlasted every building crew that has ever worked this block. That last one is the detail worth stopping on. While everything around it gets torn down, poured, and framed back up, the 1910 house at the corner of Spokane and 4th has stayed exactly where it is, and the way the new construction is arranging itself around that house is not an accident.
The house belongs to Republic Kitchen + Taphouse, and it is the only home in Post Falls listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Samuel and Ann Young, English immigrants who arrived in Post Falls in January 1896, built it as their family residence and raised twelve children there. Samuel worked as a poultry farmer, ran one of the town's first hotels, and served on the school board. The house sat as a private residence for a century before the Latham brothers partnered with chef Adam Hegsted, whose kitchen has drawn James Beard recognition, to turn it into a gastro-pub in 2017. The historic character was the point, not an obstacle to work around. The team running the kitchen has said outright that preserving the architectural features while putting the building to new use was central to the project.
That single fact reframes everything happening around it right now.
Two doors down, developers broke ground in July 2025 on Nonna, a four-story, 50,000-square-foot mixed-use building at the southwest corner of Spokane Street and 4th Avenue. The project pairs 33 apartments across the upper floors with ground-floor commercial space, and it will neighbor Republic Kitchen + Taphouse directly, according to the Coeur d'Alene Press coverage of the groundbreaking. The ground-floor tenant is Miss Dazee's, a brunch concept from mother-daughter team Laura and Kelsey Horn, both graduates of Post Falls High School, who bought the property years before construction started. As of a December 2025 update, the building was tracking toward completion around October 2026.
A few doors south, Rooted Social House has been under construction on the same stretch of Spokane Street. The concept is built to work two shifts: coffee and tea by morning, wine and small plates by night. It is the fourth project the architecture firm HDG has designed in this same district, and the firm has described its own work here in plain terms, calling it part of "a more connected, walkable, character-rich district" taking shape along Spokane Street. That is not marketing language borrowed from a city planning document. It is the literal description of what one architecture office has been building, block by block, for several years running.
The pattern is the story. This is not a single developer flipping a vacant lot. It is one firm, working through a sequence of adjacent parcels, treating the corridor as a single design problem rather than four unrelated addresses. The historic Young house sits inside that sequence as the fixed point everything else is measured against.
If you are picturing this stretch of Spokane Street, here is what is actually standing on it right now, in rough order heading south from the river:
Four addresses, one architect's fingerprints on three of them, and one structure that predates all of it by more than a century.
Here is the part that matters if you live nearby and have been wondering when any of this actually opens. Rooted Social House started construction around the end of 2025. By July 2026, coverage of the project noted only that construction was underway, without any opening date attached. Nonna's own timeline moved from a vague "sometime in 2026" estimate at groundbreaking to a firmer "around October 2026" projection five months later. Neither of those is a criticism of the builders. It is a fact about how development actually happens on a corridor like this one: not in a single ribbon-cutting weekend, but in a slow accumulation of permits, framing, and delayed reveals that stretch a construction season into a construction year.
If you have watched the fencing around these two sites without much visible change some weeks and dramatic progress in others, that irregularity is the normal rhythm of infill construction on an established street, not a sign that anything has stalled. The corridor is being built in real time, at the pace small local projects actually move, which is slower and less linear than a single press release makes it sound.
What that means practically: Miss Dazee's opening and Rooted's grand reveal are both more likely to land sometime after this fall than during it, and locals watching the block should expect the visible pace to keep shifting through the rest of 2026.
It would be easy to read the historic house as a nostalgic footnote to a bigger redevelopment story. That undersells what is actually happening. National Register status does not just protect a building from demolition. It fixes a landmark that every subsequent design decision on the block has to work around, whether that means sightlines, setbacks, or simply the fact that a century-old Victorian porch sits at eye level with a four-story apartment building going up next door.
The Young house is doing double duty. It anchors the block's identity for anyone who already knows it as the place with the good tap list and the deviled eggs, and it sets the visual and historical baseline that HDG's own description of the district, walkable and character-rich, is implicitly measured against. New density here is not replacing the old fabric. It is being built in conversation with it, one project at a time, by a firm that has now done this four times on the same street.
You do not need to do anything with this information beyond understanding it. If you already live along this stretch of the Spokane River corridor, the practical takeaway is simple: the construction fencing on Spokane Street is not a sign of one building going up and coming back down. It is the visible middle of a years-long, block-by-block redevelopment that treats the century-old house at the corner as the anchor point rather than an obstacle. Expect Miss Dazee's and Rooted Social House to open on their own uneven timelines rather than together, and expect the Handy Mart corner to be the next piece of the sequence once HDG gets to it.
For anyone weighing what a corridor like this signals about long-term value in the neighborhood, that is a conversation worth having directly. If you are curious how redevelopment on stretches like Spokane Street tends to affect nearby property values over time, or you are considering a move along the Spokane River corridor yourself, Michaela Corcoran-Hall and the Corcoran-Hall & Co. team can walk you through what's actually happening on the ground. Request a Private Consultation to talk through the corridor, the timeline, and what it might mean for your own plans.
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