City Electric Inc., an Alaska-based construction company, has leased 12,100 square feet of floor space at 2121 N. Waterworks, in Spokane Valley, and has opened a new branch there. Mark Lucas and Tracy Lucas, both of Kiemle & Hagood Co., handled the

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $7.3 million to Spokane-based Community Frameworks for constructing at least 393 low-income housing units in four states.Community Frameworks, a nonprofit that develops and support

The city of Spokane soon will begin work to rehabilitate a stretch of Wellesley Avenue west of the Maple-Ash couplet as part of a broader effort to reconstruct several portions of Wellesley's west end. Red Diamond Construction Inc., of Spokane a

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

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

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 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