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State's affordable-housing conference scheduled here

Three-day meet planned next month could draw more than 700 attendees

August 11, 2011

Housing Washington, an annual statewide conference on affordable housing, will be held Sept. 26-28 at the Spokane Convention Center.Jama Hawk, manager of administrative services for the Washington State Housing Finance Commission, says the is to

Kop to construct $1.2 million senior apartments in Omak

Project calls for 10 units in single-story structure to be completed in 2013

August 11, 2011

Mike McLean

Kop Construction Co., of Spokane, has won a $1.2 million contract to construct senior housing in Omak, Wash.The housing complex, which is to be named Pine Meadows Senior Housing, will include 10 residential units, nine of which will be for says

Apartment developer creates housing co-op near Gonzaga

14-unit Gee House features shared living; owner seeks LEED platinum rating

August 11, 2011

Chey Scott

A Spokane man has developed an apartment building near Gonzaga University that he set up as a sustainably designed coed housing cooperative targeted at GU students.The developer, Buzz Price, says the building, which he has named The Gee with the

EWU to begin renovation of women's locker rooms

Spokane's Kearsley lands $789,000 job to improve spaces for athletic teams

August 11, 2011

Treva Lind

Kearsley Construction Inc., of Spokane, is expected to start work this month on an estimated $789,000 renovation of women's athletic locker rooms and team meeting areas on Eastern Washington University's Cheney campus. Jim Moeller, an EWU senior

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Walker wins Whitworth HUB addition contract

Spokane contractor plans to start $3.5 million job at dining hall this week

August 11, 2011

Treva Lind

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

Medical school site work to start shortly

Red Diamond expected to clear ash, soil in first step of Riverpoint project

August 11, 2011

Mike McLean

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

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Walker starts construction of Cd'A Tribe health clinic

$11.6 million health facility near Plummer is scheduled to be finished in fall 2012

August 11, 2011

Treva Lind

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

TIF group hopes to fund revitalization

Board wants to attract more money for infrastructure work in the West Quadrant district

August 11, 2011

Mike McLean

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

Developer, city are in water fight

Rayner contends city agreed to pay for system in '06, challenges contrary ruling

August 11, 2011

Treva Lind

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

WSU veterinary building takes shape - Art only

August 11, 2011

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