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Inland Asphalt submits low bid for street job

May 20, 2010

Inland Asphalt Co. of Spokane, has submitted the apparent low bid, at $1.9 million, for a city of Spokane project to rehabilitate Wellesley Avenue between Division and Maple streets.The project entails full-depth rehabilitation—removing and

$10.5 million expansion starts at Cd'A plant

Contractors Northwest Inc. to add five structures at sewage treatment facility

May 20, 2010

Jeanne Gustafson

Contractors Northwest Inc., of Coeur d'Alene, has started work on a $10.5 million construction contract for the city of Coeur d'Alene to build a five-structure addition at the city's wastewater treatment plant.The total cost of the project, is a

Harcon lands $2.8 million bridge replacement

May 20, 2010

Jeanne Gustafson

Harcon Inc., of Spokane, has begun working on a $2.8 million bridge replacement project for Stevens County.The Spokane contractor recently started the project, which entails replacing the 1940s steel Barstow Bridge with a single-span concrete of

City seeks bids for next sewer-plant job

Odor-control structure among planned projects valued at $100 million

May 20, 2010

Mike McLean

The city of Spokane is seeking bids for the first projects to start the $100 million second phase of planned upgrades to the Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility sewage-treatment plant.Work currently out to bid will include installing an an

Bouten wins expansion work in Pasco

May 20, 2010

Jeanne Gustafson

Spokane-based Bouten Construction Co. has been selected by the Pasco School District to construct a $726,500 addition to Pasco High School that will expand a locker room and add two classrooms.Bouten will construct the 4,200-square-foot, which

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DOT to rebid $27 million NSC project

Work is the final piece of 5.5-mile freeway stretch

May 20, 2010

Jeanne Gustafson

The Washington state Department of Transportation plans to seek new bids in early June on an estimated $27 million job to construct 3.7 miles of three-lane southbound freeway, including five concrete girder bridges, for its North Spokane Corridor a

Crunch eases on low-income tax credits

One applying multifamily project here gets funding nod; another is canceled

May 20, 2010

Kim Crompton

A credit crunch is beginning to ease up on a sizable and highly coveted source of development money for low-income multifamily housing projects in Washington state, including some here.Investors are beginning to show more interest in buying tax

New to Spokane-area market, Copper Basin expects big year

Hayden homebuilder forecasts this year will be strongest it's ever had

May 20, 2010

Mike McLean

Copper Basin Construction Inc., a longtime Hayden, Idaho, developer and homebuilder that recently has expanded into the Spokane-area market, says it plans to construct more homes this year than it has in the company's history.Late last year, in

Before diving into riskier mutual funds, devise strategy

Investors need to study prospectuses, develop allocation framework

May 20, 2010

Personal Investing

Sometimes—especially when a bear market awakens from its hibernation—investors begin to feel the urge to take a flier on a higher-risk mutual fund.Which can be OK. Having a very small portion of your holdings in speculative choices can

In the News: May 20, 2010

May 20, 2010

May 18 / Clearwater to build $260 million tissue-products plant Spokane-based Clearwater Paper Corp. said it plans to build a new facility, at a cost of between $260 million and $280 million, to produce private-label bathroom tissue.