AT&T Media Services, the advertising sales and production arm of AT&T Cable Services, plans to move its offices to downtown Spokane from the cable companys main facility here at 1717 E. Buckeye in East Spokane.


The media-services unit, which employs 18 people, has agreed to lease 3,600 square feet of office space on the main floor of the Lincoln Building, at 818 W. Riverside, says Jim Quigley, an associate broker with Kiemle & Hagood Co. who represented AT&T Media Services in the lease.


Remodeling work on the space is expected to start soon, and AT&T Media Services hopes to move there by July, says Denise Harfield, a commercial and leasing manager with Goodale & Barbieri Real Estate Services Inc. Harfield represented Goodale & Barbieri Cos., which owns the building, in the lease.


Jeff Johnson, general manager of AT&T Media Services, says the unit is moving downtown to free up space for AT&T Cable Services, which he says needs additional room at its building on Buckeye. He says AT&T Medias current space there is about the same size as the 3,600-square-foot space that it plans to occupy downtown.


The newly leased office space in the Lincoln Building is in the southeast corner of the buildings main floor and with the exception of the Lincoln Building Barber Shop, which occupies about 500 square feet, is vacant. Harfield says the barber shop, a longtime tenant there, will move next door to an 800-square-foot space that fronts on Riverside Avenue.


Construction Associates Inc., of Spokane, is the general contractor on the remodeling project, and 3E Design Group PS, of Spokane, designed it, Harfield says. She declines to disclose the cost of the remodeling work.


The vacant space that AT&T Media Services plans to fill was occupied most recently by Pioneer Title Co. of Washington and Storey & Miller Court Reporters, both of which moved to other downtown Spokane buildings.