Nick Smoot, co-founder of the Innovation Collective, has made an offer to purchase the old Elks Club Athletic Center to house his new club, “The Collective.” Smoot said he and his two partners have structured two separate offers to purchase the building, and he hopes to hear if either offer is accepted by the end of this week. “We want to make it a key campus or facility of entrepreneurial activity and commercialization,” Smoot said Wednesday. Smoot said the Innovation Collective has spun off a new private dues-paying club called “The Collective.” Members will have access to a variety of amenities downtown including a new cigar lounge at the Innovation Collective’s 410 Sherman co-work space/Jeff Selle, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

Question: Can anyone remember when the Elks Building was in use?

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