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$1 million Valley apartment project planned

Kop Construction wins job to renovate 40-unit San Franciscan complex

February 24, 2011

Kop Construction Co., of Spokane, has won a $1 million contract to renovate a Spokane Valley apartment complex for a nonprofit affordable-housing developer.Construction will begin sometime in March, says Chris Venne, development finance manager

Rendering courtesy of Womer & Associates

Nisqually Tribal Administration Building - Art Only

February 24, 2011

Womer & Associates, a Spokane-based, Native American-owned design firm, incorporated cultural elements such as flowing water, totems, a salmon's back, and even a mountain peak into its design of this planned new administration building for the of a

Two cents on a quarter century

February 24, 2011

Editor's Notebook

In early February of 1986, when the Journal of Business published its first edition, I, too, was seeing my name in print for the first time. I was a freshman staff writer at my high-school newspaper who was basking in the glory of my first piece of

Meridian wins $3.7 million Valley project

Project will include new fire administration building, training tower upgrades

February 24, 2011

Chey Scott

Meridian Construction Inc., of Spokane, has been awarded a $3.7 million contract to construct the Spokane Valley Fire Department's new administration office building and to repair its firefighter training facility.Work on the new, administration

Dental building planned on North Side

Children's Choice to move one of its offices this year to Nevada Street location

February 24, 2011

Mike McLean

The Children's Choice, a Spokane pediatric dental practice, says it plans to develop a $2.7 million building at 9711 N. Nevada, and move its North Side clinic there.Dr. Charles Toillion, a principal at the practice, says construction of the will

Engineering firm expands into Valley

GN Northern acquires small Hayden firm as part of expansion here

February 24, 2011

Chey Scott

GN Northern Inc., a Yakima, Wash.-based engineering firm, has opened an office in Spokane Valley.As part of its expansion, the company also recently acquired a Hayden, Idaho-based engineering firm, Earth Services Northwest PLLC, and retained its

Valley firm changes its affiliation

RDH Investment aligns with Raymond James, leaving D.A. Davidson

February 24, 2011

Mike McLean

RDH Investment Group LLC, a Spokane Valley financial management firm, has changed its securities-brokerage affiliation and now is an independent branch of St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Raymond James Financial Services Inc.The branch, which formerly

Wells & Co. revives plans for luxury urban project

Carnegie Square proposal includes eight townhouses on west edge of city center

February 24, 2011

Mike McLean

Spokane development company Wells & Co. has revived its plants to develop urban housing units on the west edge of downtown.Preliminary plans on file with the city show that Wells & Co. wants to develop Carnegie Square Townhouses, an eight-unit,

Douglass seeks to expand options for North Side sites

Land-use designation changes would broaden uses

February 24, 2011

Chey Scott

Prominent Spokane developer Harlan Douglass is seeking land-use designation changes that would allow more intensive commercial uses on two properties he owns in North Spokane.One of the two properties is about 6.5 acres of undeveloped land and a

Minha Casa Sua Casa

February 24, 2011

Chey Scott

"Minha casa sua casa" is Portuguese for "my house is your house," and this phrase is the theme of Joana Deus's business here, Casa Brazil LLC.Deus, a native of Brazil, says she opened her shop last August with the intent to bring the culture and