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Coeur d'Alene concern wins wastewater project

Contractors Northwest to build treatment plant for city of Plummer, Idaho

May 21, 2009

Contractors Northwest, of Coeur d'Alene, is the apparent low bidder, with a bid of about $5 million, to construct a wastewater treatment plant for the city of Plummer, Idaho.Alan Gay, a project manager for the Spokane office of Anchorage, USKH a

Valley roofing contractor buys building, divides work

Icon says second shop ensures adequate space for summer job peak

May 21, 2009

Mike McLean

Icon Corp., a Spokane Valley commercial roofing concern, says it has bought a 6,000-square-foot building about 10 miles east of the location it has leased for several years and has moved some of its operations there.The purchase of the former at

Leone & Keeble and Walker join on Tonasket, Wash., job

North Valley Hospital to nearly double in size with building addition

May 21, 2009

David Cole

Leone & Keeble Inc. and Walker Construction Inc., both of Spokane, have formed a joint venture to take on an $8.2 million building project that will nearly double the size of North Valley Hospital, in Tonasket, Wash., hospital administrator Warner

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New therapist building on horizon -Art Only

May 21, 2009

David Owen, owner of Youthful Horizons Physical Therapy PS, is developing this $2.7 million, 22,600-square-foot office building, at Fourth Avenue and University Road, where he plans to move and expand the Spokane Valley practice. Baker Construction

Fair buildings, crushed by snow, being rebuilt

Valleyford-area contractor submits winning bid; cost is half engineer's estimate

May 21, 2009

David Cole

Western States Construction Inc., of Valleyford, Wash., is replacing both the east and west annexes of the Agriculture A Building at the Spokane County Fair & Expo Center. The two wings collapsed in December under the weight of record Wuts, project

North Side church gets expansion

Walker Construction is doing $1.2 million project

May 21, 2009

David Cole

Walker Construction Inc., of Spokane, has begun work on a $1.2 million expansion of the Garland Avenue Alliance Church on Spokane's North Side, says John Warren, chairman of the church's leadership board.The project consists of constructing a a

Levernier wins big Freeman school job

Project to get under way soon; elementary school modernization to follow

May 21, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Levernier Construction Inc., of Spokane, has landed a $12.8 million project to modernize and expand Freeman High School, in Rockford, Wash.Sergio Hernandez, Freeman School District's superintendent, says Levernier submitted the lowest of seven a

Eller Corp. begins major work on Five Mile Road

Newman Lake concern to widen road, add trees, turn lane, and bike lanes

May 21, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Eller Corp., of Newman Lake, has begun work on a $5 million city of Spokane project to widen and repave Five Mile Road between Austin and Lincoln roads.The project entails widening Five Mile Road to 44 feet wide along that stretch and improving

Cell-phone retailer to open its fifth Spokane-area outlet in Liberty Lake

May 21, 2009

Mike McLean

GoWireless Inc., a Snoqualmie, Wash.-based retailer of Verizon cell-phone services and products, plans to open its fifth Spokane-area outlet, at the southwest corner of Appleway Avenue and Liberty Lake Road in Liberty Lake, says a manager with the

City of Spokane to get design for signal at 44th and Regal

Also, Acme Concrete Paving is replacing intersection, signals at Francis, Nevada

May 21, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

The city of Spokane recently approved a contract with the Spokane office of Portland-based David Evans & Associates Inc. for design of a traffic signal to be installed at 44th Avenue and Regal Street.That location is at the crux of traffic on a