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West Plains builder lands $9.9 million Montana job

West Co. to realign, rebuild 11.5-mile portion of road

June 30, 2011

West Co., an Airway Heights-based transportation contractor, has received a $9.9 million contract to reconstruct and realign an 11.5-mile stretch of a rural Montana road.The project is to take place on Petty Creek Road, which extends south from

Cheney school takes shape - Art only

June 30, 2011

Structural steel forms the frame of an as-yet-unnamed middle school under construction at 6120 Abbott Road, in the Cheney School District. Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, is the contractor on the $26.4 million project, and Spokane-based it.

Leone & Keeble lands final phase of Patterson Hall job

Contractor that handled first phase to start work on $30.5 million project

June 30, 2011

Chey Scott

Eastern Washington University has selected Spokane-based Leone & Keeble Inc. as the general contractor for the $30.5 million second and final phase of its big overhaul of Patterson Hall. Despite deep budget cuts made during the state's recent of

Former assessor launches online property tax venture

Baker aims to increase awareness about appeals, exemptions, other relief

June 30, 2011

Mike McLean

Ralph Baker, the former Spokane County assessor, says he's made it his business to help people understand the property tax system, including educating them about filing appeals.Baker says he has founded the American Property Tax Institute LLC, a

T.W. Clark wins $5.5 million job at Ellensburg jail

June 30, 2011

Treva Lind

T.W. Clark Construction LLC, of Spokane Valley, expects to start work early next month on a $5.5 million addition and remodel project for the Kittitas County Jail, in Ellensburg, Wash. Jon Huettl, a T.W. Clark project manager, says the company

Two sports field projects to get started in Cheney

School district to begin 20-acre field complex; city plans 50-acre park

June 30, 2011

Treva Lind

Two separate sports field complexes are expected to get under way later this summer in Cheney: a 20-acre park planned by Cheney Public Schools and a 50-acre park slated by the city of Cheney.For the school district's $2 million field complex, a

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Bouten lands $27 million in projects in Kennewick

Renovations, additions to three elementary schools planned over three years

June 30, 2011

Chey Scott

Bouten Construction Co., of Spokane, has been selected as the general contractor for $27 million in projects for the Kennewick School District, in south central Washington. To occur over the course of three years, the projects are to include and

Project to widen U.S. 95 in North Idaho continues

Kent, Wash., contractor submits $36 million low bid for six-mile stretch of road

June 30, 2011

Chey Scott

As part of an ongoing project intended to improve safety and traffic flow on U.S. Highway 95 through North Idaho, the Idaho Transportation Department expects to start work this summer on reconstructing and widening a six-mile stretch of the Work

Garco wins $7.9 million Ferris concrete, steel project

Spokane contractor to act as its own subcontractor providing structural work

June 30, 2011

Mike McLean

Spokane Public Schools says it has picked Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, to handle structural steel and concrete work for the Ferris High School reconstruction and partial renovation project.Garco had submitted a low bid of $7.9 million of

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Graham to start work soon on Wenatchee college job

Spokane contractor says $6.8 million building to take year to complete

June 30, 2011

Treva Lind

Graham Construction & Management Inc., of Spokane, expects to begin work early next month on a $6.8 million project to erect Wenatchee Valley College's Center for Music and Art building.The single-story building will have about 27,000 square of