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Stimulus loan program gets off to rocky start, is important lifeline nonetheless

Lenders work to connect customers with Paycheck Protection Program

April 7, 2020

When the year began, business was booming, and the biggest challenge for many employers was finding qualified job applicants. Suddenly, we're in an economic environment no one anticipated.

Spokane-area small businesses look to benefit from CARES Act

Relief slated to be available starting April 3

March 31, 2020

Virginia Thomas

Spokane-area small-business owners are looking into taking advantage of aid offered to them through the CARES Act, says Sheryl McGrath, Spokane-based associate state director of the Washington Small Business Development Center.

Spokane-area builders scramble to comply with state mandate

Inslee deems most residential, commercial projects nonessential

March 26, 2020

Natasha Nellis

Spokane-area contractors are scrambling to comply with recent updates to Gov. Jay Inslee's 'stay home, stay healthyâ€ order that has deemed commercial and residential construction as nonessential.

We are in this Together

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March 26, 2020

Paul Read

Dear Journal Readers and Advertisers, These are unprecedented times. As a community, we are frightened and confused. We find ourselves physically isolated from those we work with, and in some cases from those we love. Many are facing financial hardship

STARS plans integrated behavioral health facility

New location to offer 64 beds for crisis treatment, withdrawal management

March 26, 2020

Virginia Thomas

Spokane Treatment and Recovery Services expects to erect a 64-bed, 42,000-square-foot integrated behavioral health treatment facility and medical clinic on East Nora Avenue, in Spokane Valley, by the middle of next year.

One Lakeside high-rise to be completed in June in Cd'A

$20 million tower to have condominiums, hotel units

March 26, 2020

Mike McLean

One Lakeside, the long planned mixed-use high-rise structure with views of Lake Coeur d'Alene, is nearly complete. The 15-story, $20 million building is being constructed at the northwest corner of First Street and Lakeside Avenue, near the west edge

$49M veterans home in works in Post Falls

Construction set to begin in spring or early summer

March 26, 2020

Mike McLean

The Idaho Division of Veterans Services plans to break ground this spring or early summer on a $49 million veteran's home in Post Falls. The 83,400-square-foot facility will be located on 7.3 acres of land fronting Lochsa Street, adjacent to Biopol

New memory care facility rises at Orchard Crest

48-unit facility on track to be finished by year-end

March 26, 2020

Virginia Thomas

A $17.5 million memory care facility is rising at Orchard Crest Retirement Community, in Spokane Valley. Susanne Lunt, executive director at Orchard Crest LLC, says the walls of the two-story, 43,400-square-foot building are up, and the roof is mostly

Walls rise at Rockwood at Whitworth retirement complex

Retirement complex is on schedule to complete first phase in January

March 26, 2020

Natasha Nellis

Walls are starting to rise at Rockwood Retirement Communities' $69 million redevelopment project at its North Side location, says Eowyn Sallis, director of marketing for the organization. Work on the 420,000-square-foot, two-phase project, located at

First part of Exotic Metals expansion takes shape

Manufacturing company to complete first of two new buildings this fall

March 26, 2020

Natasha Nellis

Kent, Washington-based Exotic Metals Forming Co.'s two-phase expansion project at its West Plains facility is well underway, with walls in place on the first phase at 12933 W. McFarlane Road. The manufacturing company is building two new warehouse