The Washington state Department of Commerce has awarded 11 grants worth just over $1.9 million to Spokane-area private building owners to assist them in complying with the state's clean building performance standards. 

The individual grants range in size from $15,600 for Second Harvest food bank to nearly $635,000 for the Holley Mason office building, in downtown Spokane. 

Clean building grants to be used for other prominent Spokane-area facilities include: Alturas Rock Pointe West office building, $43,500; Excelsior Wellness, $340,000; Northtown Office Building, $335,830; Northwest Christian Schools, $84,400; and Rockwood Retirement South Hill, $272,400; among others. 

The grants are intended to go toward upgrading lighting, implementing smart building controls, modernizing heating and cooling systems, and developing compliance documentation to show the structures meet the clean buildings performance standards. 

The money for Spokane-area structure modifications is part of a broader distribution through which $55 million in grants were awarded for such projects statewide. The funding comes from Climate Commitment Act dollars.