Walker Construction Inc., of Spokane, has won a $3.5 million contract to build an expansion of Whitworth University's dining hall, inside the Hixson Union Building.The construction is scheduled to start this week to add nearly 14,000 square feet
Site work for Washington State University's planned $78 million Biomedical and Health Sciences Building on the Riverpoint Campus is expected to start this month.Bob Askins, of Graham Construction & Management Inc., the general contractor and on
Walker Construction Inc., of Spokane, has started work on an $11.6 million job to build a Coeur d'Alene Tribe outpatient clinic in North Idaho.Tom Hansen, Walker Construction co-owner and project manager, says the company broke ground in on the
An advisory board for a Spokane tax-increment financing district called the West Quadrant hopes to find ways to leverage the roughly $200,000 the district has collected so far and recommend initial revitalization projects in which the city could of
Spokane businessman Pete Rayner says a plan this year to launch the long-envisioned Beacon Hill subdivision in northeast Spokane is stalled until he and the city resolve the issue of who pays for a water system.Rayner asserts the city promised a
Work on the $96 million Veterinary Medical Research Building on the Washington State University campus in Pullman is on schedule to be completed in the fall of 2012. Spokane-based Lydig Construction Inc. is the construction manager and general on
A group of Spokane restaurateurs plans to open a new eatery, the Field House Pizza & Pub, in the River Ridge Center in northwest Spokane.Nelson Phelps Inc., which is owned by Elizabeth and Curtis Nelson and Todd Phelps, will operate the in a by
Lilac Bloomsday Association, the nonprofit that organizes and stages the big annual running race in downtown Spokane each May, will be consolidating its operations into one building that's to be constructed in the city's West Central area.Pro of
LA Aluminum Casting Co., the Hayden, Idaho-based metal foundry, says it has added a new line of equipment that's resulted in a 20 percent increase in sales during the last several months, and it expects to see that double-digit growth this spring,
San Diego-based Newland Communities says it plans to begin work next year on a ninth phase of its Eagle Ridge development, the big residential community located in the Latah Valley area of south Spokane. The latest phase, it says, is expected to a