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Breast-feeding on the rise

Health-care act requires some employers to offer private lactation space

January 13, 2011

Lactation educators here say the rate of breast-feeding is on the rise, and expect that trend to continue as awareness grows and as more employers make accommodations for lactating employees to comply with new federal rules that are part of the the

Real Estate Roundup

January 13, 2011

Mike McLean

Graceful Gift Baskets, a Spokane Valley custom gift-basket design and delivery concern, has leased 1,200 square feet of floor space in the Vista Industrial Park, at 111 N. Vista, and has moved there from a smaller, residential space. Tracy Poff, of

Thai Bamboo center rises - Art only

January 13, 2011

Vandervert Construction Inc. is erecting a retail center that Thai Bamboo Restaurant LLC plans to anchor at 5406 N. Division. Bernardo Wills Architects PS, of Spokane, designed the $1.5 million project, which is scheduled to be completed in March.

North Idaho health provider to build new, larger facility

Ginno Construction to start work soon in Bonners Ferry on $1.25 million structure

January 13, 2011

Chey Scott

Kaniksu Health Services, a Bonners Ferry, Idaho-based health-care service provider that serves low-income residents in North Idaho's two northern-most counties, says it plans to begin construction of a new $1.25 million community-health center this

Longtime broker starts agency in Valley

January 13, 2011

Kathy Lemons, a longtime real estate broker here, says she has launched an independent real estate agency in Spokane Valley.The agency, Top Gold Realty, specializes in marketing residential properties in the Spokane area, and occupies 1,800 feet

Prudential broker here buys building, moves Valley office

January 13, 2011

Mike McLean

Ken Lewis, owner and broker at Prudential Spokane Real Estate, says he has bought and refurbished a building at 421 N. Mullan, in Spokane Valley, and has moved the agency's Valley office there.Lewis says he has invested $280,000 to buy and the &

South Hill rental houses take shape - Art only

January 13, 2011

SCH Construction LLC, of Spokane, is developing a $2.2 million, 24-unit rental-housing project at 3405 S. Cook, on Spokane's South Hill. The cottage home-style houses, which will have an average of 1,000 square feet of living space each, are to be

Garco wins steel work on WSU job

$908,000 subcontract part of animal-health center project on Pullman campus

January 13, 2011

Mike McLean

Washington State University says Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, has won a $908,000 job to furnish and install structural steel for the Paul G. Allen Center for Global Animal Health, which is under construction on Washington State University's

Unique UI course melds design, legal disciplines

Professors collaborated to create graduate-level offering three years ago

January 13, 2011

Donna Emert

It's a big, diverse, multi-stakeholder village that can include architects, contractors, developers, homeowners, brokers, planners, engineers, and attorneys. Extensive land development and construction can require primary contracts, leases, and

Rendering courtesy Eric Hedlund Design LLC

Girl Scouts replace lodge at Lake Coeur d'Alene

Gunder Homes erects $1.2 million structure at Camp Four Echoes

January 13, 2011

Mike McLean

The Girl Scouts Eastern Washington & Northern Idaho Council is erecting a $1.2 million lodge at Camp Four Echoes, on Lake Coeur d'Alene, to replace a 70-year-old structure there.The new two-story, 11,500-square- foot lodge will have about three