Havermale Park gains more tenants

A coffee house, an English pub, an interior design store and a personal trainer are among the new tenants preparing to move into Havermale Park, a mixed-use development slowly filling up on the east side of downtown Spokane.

Several new leases were announced this week in the development that includes seven historic buildings stretching west from Browne Street between Sprague and Riverside avenues. Work is also continuing on transforming the upper floors of several of the buildings into apartments and office space.

“We’ll have that block finished up this summer,” said Mark McLees, the Tomlinson Black agent handling leasing for property owner ConoverBond Development. “We’re getting a lot of action.”

The National Building, on the southwest corner of Browne and Riverside, should have two new tenants this summer. A coffee and wine bar called Havermale House is scheduled to open, as is a pub called Lion’s Lair.

“We want it to be a very contemporary English-style pub,” said Kameron Finnegan, owner of Lion’s Lair with partner Eric McLeod. Finnegan has worked in the bar and restaurant business for 15 years, seven of those in management, she said. “We’re going to have some very unique cocktails.”

Finnegan said the bar would have a limited food menu, which would gradually expand and will offer good imported beer on tap. She said the Lair also will play a variety of contemporary music to please a wide clientele.

Just south of the National Building on Browne Street, the historic Alger-Bristol building is now entirely leased. Mark Shockman’s All About Fitness is scheduled to open June 27 at 9 N. Browne. A personal training business that’s moving from the Lincoln Building, the gym will have four trainers and will offer ½ hour and hour-long sessions, said Angie Shockman, the business manager.

“It’s a really pretty space,” she said. “It will allow us to grow.”

Directly on the northwest corner of Browne and Sprague, Gina Cook is preparing to open Gina’s Design Corner, an upscale interior design center offering hardwood flooring, wool carpets, granite countertops and other products. Cook said she has 27 years of experience in the interior design industry through her family’s carpet business on East Trent.

“The feeling I’m hoping to create is an atmosphere of being welcomed into someone’s home,” Cook said of her business, which will open on Aug. 1.

In addition, McLees said, a lease is pending with a hair salon, which likely will occupy a space in the National Building. Leasing activity is continuing in additional buildings farther west on the block, he said.