After moving to the top floor of the Hougen Centre on Tuesday, Coast Mountain Sports staff will be getting its Main Street space across from its temporary location ready for new tenants.

But just who those tenants will be remains unknown.

'There's been pretty good interest considering we haven't advertised,' Craig Hougen, who manages the local shop on Main Street, said this week.

With Coast Mountain now in its temporary space on the top floor of the Hougen Centre, Hougen said, staff will now clean out its former 4,800-square-foot location and get it ready for new tenants before it's formally advertised for lease.

When they advertise the space in their old store, Hougen said, he'll be looking for a tenant to fit in well on Main Street, which he described as the 'heart and soul' of the downtown.

The space may also be divided into two 2,400-square-foot locations, as it originally was when Northern Outdoors (which was bought out by Coast Mountain) moved in.

In recent years, the 4,800 square feet have been too small with little room to display tents and other products, Hougen said.

Wanting to stay on Main Street though, there was no room until the Bonanza Inn (formerly the Taku Hotel) with the Discovery Bar, was being sold. It seemed to be the perfect spot for a new store.

'We wanted to be on Main Street,' Hougen said. 'The Taku was a natural fit.'

With the temporary location and the new location each having a space of about 10,000 square feet though a floor plan for the Fourth Avenue and Main Street site still has to be completed Hougen is now planning to attend the Outdoor Retailers Trade Show in Salt Lake City, Utah later this year to look for new products.

Among those new items may be new clothing options and other products the store sells.

Initially, Hougen hadn't planned to go to the show due to the limited space in their former location.

Coast Mountain will take possession of the new space at the Discovery Bar and the restaurant in October, with work set to be done through the winter before it opens there in the spring.

A set floor plan has not yet been decided and that could impact the amount of space available.

While exact design plans are still being worked out, Hougen said he plans to incorporate the Yukon outdoors into the new store to reflect the spirit of the territory. There will also be large windows at the Fourth Avenue and Main Street location to showcase what's inside the store.

In the meantime, customers seem pleased to find the store in a larger space even if it is just temporary.

'It's a stepping-stone,' Hougen said, noting signs have been put in place to explain what's being done.

As Hougen gets ready to move into the new space, others are acknowledging the sale of the bar and restaurant space will mean another live music venue is gone.

Eric Epstein, artistic director of the Yukon Arts Centre, noted in an interview earlier this year when rumours of the Discovery Bar's sale were common, that the bar on Main Street has been a gathering place for many local musicians since the late 1970s.

Right now, there aren't a lot of places where live music can be heard and this will mean one more place that's lost, he said.

The Taku Hotel originally opened for business in the early 1960s.