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Silvey Construction to construct office building along Nevada Street on North Side

$3 million project to be completed within a year

June 5, 2014

Spokane Valley contractor Silvey Construction Inc. has obtained a building permit to construct a $3 million office building on Spokane's North Side. The proposed project site is a vacant parcel of land at 9911 N. Nevada, just north of a Horizon Credit

Air ambulance launches service in Coeur d'Alene

Life Flight to employ 14 people at Boyington Field

June 5, 2014

Mike McLean

Aurora, Ore.-based Life Flight Network plans to base a helicopter ambulance service in Coeur d'Alene beginning later this month. Life Flight, which claims to be the largest nonprofit medical flight program in the U.S., provides critical care transporta

Gymnastics studio plans new $1.8 million facility in Hillyard area

Dynamic to expand offerings after move

June 5, 2014

Katie Ross

Harris Athletics Corp., which operates Spokane gymnastics and cheer academy Dynamic Gymnastics & Cheer, is developing a new $1.8 million facility in the Hillyard area, and plans to relocate there from a smaller space on north Division Street, says owner A

Combating county's high maternal smoking rate

Low income, other stressors contribute to gap, officials say

June 5, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Despite the well-known dangers of smoking cigarettes during pregnancy, the percentage of expectant women who smoked in Spokane County is almost twice the rate of pregnant smokers in Washington state as a whole, say Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD)

A conversation with Desautel Hege Communications CEO Michelle Hege: Leading in a dynamic market

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June 5, 2014

Linn Parish

Michelle Hege was employee No. 1 when Jim and Cher Desautel started a public relations firm in the 1990s. Last July, she became the top executive at Desautel Hege Communications Inc., a firm based in the Morgan Building, at 315 W. Riverside in downtown

Riverfront Park plan, financing are up for vote

Spokane Park Board expects plan to pass

June 5, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Spokane Park Board members will meet next week to deliberate and vote on the $60 million master plan as it exists today and a finance package to renovate Riverfront Park that, if approved, will go to the Spokane City Council for approval before it can be

Staples store moves are central to three projects

Party City, Destination XL will enter Spokane market

June 5, 2014

Mike McLean

Staples Inc., the Framingham, Mass.-based office supply retail chain, is making two of its Spokane-area outlets smaller, says a commercial real estate agent with some knowledge of the projects. Meantime, Party City Corp., a Rockaway N.J.-based party supp

Kaiser plant owner eyes second phase of demolition

Former Mead Works site prepped for business park

June 5, 2014

Katie Ross

New Mill Capital LLC, the owner of the large former Kaiser Aluminum Corp. Mead Works smelting plant property north of Spokane, is readying for the second phase of demolition at the long-shuttered plant, says Ken Hoff, site manager. Hoff says he hopes bi

City, vendors look to resolve food-truck fracas

City says it's confident it can resolve mobile vendors' concerns

June 5, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Players in the Spokane food truck-regulations fracas were meeting this week to try to iron out some of the issues around a proposed ordinance governing how, when, and where mobile food truck vendors operate in and around the Spokane area. Ben Stuckart,

Growth strategy amply energizes Schweitzer Engineering

Sales projected to exceed $1 billion within five years

June 5, 2014

Mike McLean

Pullman-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. is plugged into an aggressive growth strategy as it increases its lines of products and services and expands its markets, says Luis D'Acosta, SEL's chief operations officer. The 30-year-old comp