Additional businesses eye North Kalispell
The Spring Prairie Commercial District in North Kalispell could be seeing several new additions in the next few years.
Renderings submitted to the Kalispell Planning Department by developer Flower & Stone, Ltd. depict a new building with T-Mobile, Kay Jewelers and MOD Pizza store fronts.
An additional rendering shows Home Goods and Hobby Lobby, which currently have a vacant space between them, filled with a new REI outdoor retail store.
The Daily Inter Lake previously reported the high likelihood of REI moving to town, and the other businesses are in similar phases of limbo.
Tom Jentz, planning and building director with the city of Kalispell, said there is no guarantee these businesses will come to town because there is no evidence contracts have been signed between the retailers and developers, and the city is still waiting for the developer to submit the relevant building permits. He said the developer has indicated they are in contract negotiations with those businesses right now.
Still, Jentz said when projects reach this stage in the permitting process, the business ends up in the space approximately 90 percent of the time.
MOD Pizza is a quickly growing national chain where customers go in and request pizzas with various ingredients that are added on an assembly line, similar to a Subway sandwich shop. Over 30 toppings are offered and the price stays the same no matter how many you pick, according to the company’s website.
The company was founded in Seattle in 2008 by Scott and Aly Svenson and now has more than 200 locations across 20 states and the United Kingdom, including one in Missoula.
Kay Jewelers is a popular chain jewelry store that already has locations in Missoula, Great Falls and Billings. T-Mobile sells cellphones and cellular plans as one of Verizon Wireless’s main competitors in the state. The company already has locations in Missoula, Helena and Butte.
A spokesperson for Flower & Stone, Ltd. declined to comment for this article.
Reporter Peregrine Frissell can be reached at (406) 758-4438 or pfrissell@dailyinterlake.com.