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Valley ENT owners plan $6 million building

New facility to include three-room surgical suite, expanded hearing center

May 7, 2009

A busy Spokane Valley medical practice plans to construct a $6 million building a few blocks east of Valley Hospital & Medical Center to expand its practice, and says it will hire about 10 additional employees once that building is completed. In

Agilent eyes options for building here

Company doesn't need big Liberty Lake facility, might sell it, lease space

May 7, 2009

David Cole

Agilent Technologies Inc., the Santa Clara, Calif.-based scientific-instrument maker with a large facility in Liberty Lake, is considering multiple options for the structure, including possibly selling it and leasing space elsewhere in the area, is

Foreclosures here low on national scale

Despite increase in filings, county's tiny default rate ranks among best in U.S

May 7, 2009

Mike McLean

Despite a one-third increase in foreclosure actions in the first quarter compared with the year-earlier period, Spokane County's default rate was among the lowest in the U.S.'s metropolitan areas, says RealtyTrac, a national foreclosure data the of

Vinyl window maker here buys another

Cascade Windows acquires Portland-area manufacturer with high-end product line

May 7, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Cascade Windows, a longtime Spokane Valley manufacturer of vinyl windows, has acquired a Portland-area window maker with more than 100 employees and a high-end window line that will broaden Cascade Window's product mix.Randall Emerson says he &

WSU sees need to expand here

Master plan update envisions additional 370,000 square feet

May 7, 2009

Richard Ripley

Washington State University Spokane's managers believe the school's branch campus here will need 370,000 square feet of additional space by 2015 to accommodate growing demands.That amount of net new square footage is an estimate developed part a

Project pipeline at Fairchild huge

Runway work, new fuel line, housing upgrades on list

May 7, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

As much as $260 million in construction work is under way or planned in the near term at Fairchild Air Force Base, including a replacement of its runway, a major fuel-line project, and a continued overhaul of base housing, military officials of the

Expeditors' data center moves forward

Lydig begins site work on Airway Heights project for logistics company

May 7, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Lydig Construction Inc., of Spokane, has begun site work for construction of a multimillion-dollar data center that Expeditors International of Washington Inc. plans to open in Airway Heights.Expeditors, a big Seattle-based global logistics to

Sun Rental adds store on West Plains

TJH Enterprises plans to seek a larger facility for Airway Heights outlet

May 7, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

The Spokane company that owns five Sun Rental Center outlets here has opened a sixth location in Airway Heights.The company, TJH Enterprises Inc., had been looking for a store location on the West Plains for some time, and saw an opportunity to

Newly realigned spur wins praise

Track section opened in January, easing fear of rail users

May 7, 2009

David Cole

Trains are running regularly now on the newly realigned Geiger Spur rail line on the West Plains, and businesses that depend on the line say they're relieved the connection will be available long term for receiving and shipping freight.The Geiger

Despite recession, West Plains continues to grow

Houses, hotels, wastewater plant amid host of projects planned or under way there

May 7, 2009

Mike McLean

The West Plains has an array of commercial and residential construction projects that are moving ahead, despite the anchor-dragging effects of the recession, and developers and builders say a number of pending or stalled projects could resume when