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175 million-plus in construction planned at Spokane Public Schools

Work at Finch, Hutton next in queue; Mullan, NC plans on fast track

September 27, 2012

Spokane Public Schools is wrapping up the design phase for the upcoming Finch Elementary restoration and modernization project, and the district expects to approve a design team next month for a planned Hutton Elementary modernization project, says

Small Business Watch

September 27, 2012

Valley ad agency buys building, plans moveKiwico LLC, doing business as Brand It, an Advertising Agency, has bought a building in Spokane Valley, and Brand It plans to relocate there from a smaller, leased Valley space.The agency will move to

Aerospace anticipation builds here

September 27, 2012

Editor's Notebook

For months, we've been hearing quiet conversations about Spokane economic development leaders' courtship with Boeing Co., along with varying degrees of optimism that the aerospace giant eventually will build a manufacturing facility on the West day

Avista, Inland Power clear initial clean energy hurdles

Electric companies lauded by NW Energy Coalition for efficiencies achieved

September 27, 2012

Kim Crompton

Regional electricity providers Avista Utilities and Inland Power & Light Co., both of Spokane, have recorded impressive accomplishments during the first reporting period for Washington's clean energy law, Initiative 937, says a primary sponsor of a

Liberty Lake fitness center agrees to change questioned practices

September 27, 2012

Jessica Valencia

Physzique LLC, which operates a Liberty Lake-based fitness center, has reached an agreement with the Washington state Attorney General's Office over customer-raised concerns and is expected to change business practices that the Attorney General are

Staples reduces floor size in its Coeur d'Alene outlet

$600,000 remodel part of office-supply chain's smaller-store strategy

September 27, 2012

Mike McLean

Staples Inc., the Framingham, Mass.-based office-supply retail chain, says a $600,000 remodel project currently under way at its Coeur d'Alene outlet will reduce the store's size by more than a third.The store will be reduced to 15,500 square of

Colvico awarded message board installation contract

Work on $1.6 million job is likely to start next year along three key corridors

September 27, 2012

Jessica Valencia

The City of Spokane has awarded electrical contractor Colvico Inc. a $1.6 million project to install electronic message boards along Division Street and intelligent transportation systems along Maple Street and Third Avenue.The message boards to

144-unit Canyon Pointe Apartments project revisited in west Spokane

$9.6 million complex similar in scope to one mulled, shelved in '07

September 27, 2012

Mike McLean

A longtime Spokane Valley developer and contractor is dusting off plans for a 144-unit apartment complex on Sunset Hill, near Indian Canyon Golf Course, that have been on hold for nearly five years, preliminary documents on file with the city to be

Medical Lake interchange moved to higher priority

Washington DOT says project now sits behind North Spokane Corridor

September 27, 2012

Jessica Valencia

The Washington state Department of Transportation plans on making Interstate 90-Medical Lake interchange improvements a higher priority when considering state fund disbursement due to an increase in business development near there, says Keith the a

Sports: It's in the bag

September 27, 2012

Treva Lind

Curtis Medlen, 47-year-old co-founder of Spokane Valley-based Sport SAQ USA Inc., says he first got the idea 20 years ago to create athletic bags with specially-designed compartments to carry the gear specific to a sport such as basketball.As in