Real Estate & Construction

Ecology awards $23 million in grants

Conservation district gets $1.8M in funds for Hangman Creek

July 2, 2020

The Washington state Department of Ecology has awarded nearly $1.8 million in grants and loans to the Spokane Conservation District for two Hangman Creek clean water projects. In total, 19 clean water projects in counties throughout Eastern Washington

Colorado group acquires two Rathdrum companies

Mandere, Northwest Building to retain employees, names

July 2, 2020

Natasha Nellis

Denver, Colorado-based Kodiak Building Partners has added two Rathdrum-based construction companies to its growing portfolio. Mandere Construction Inc. and Northwest Building Components Inc. have been acquired by the building materials supply and

Around Town

Real Estate Transactions and Other Business Moves in the Inland Northwest

July 2, 2020

Staff Report

Spokane-based Turner Family Enterprises LLC has purchased as an investment nearly 7 acres of vacant land on the southwest corner of Bigelow Gulch Road and Jensen Road. Gene Arger, of G. Arger Company Real Estate Inc., handled the transaction. Spokane-b

Empire Eye breaks ground on $3.9 million project in Spokane Valley

Company plans to move Valley office in mid-2021

July 2, 2020

Virginia Thomas

Empire Eye Physicians PS, of Spokane Valley, has broken ground on a new facility and expects to move into its new space in mid-2021. The facility, to be called Empire Eye Physicians & Empire Eye Surgery Center, will be located at 16010 E. Indiana, in

Building code updates to encourage solar power

Changes part of push to eliminate fossil fuel use

June 18, 2020

Natasha Nellis

Washington state is now encouraging higher adoptions of solar energy systems in homebuilding as part of its drive to eliminate fossil fuel-generated electricity from the grid.

Around Town

Real Estate Transactions and Other Business Moves in the Inland Northwest

June 18, 2020

Staff Report

Liberty Lake-based BSBS LLC has purchased as investments the 64-unit Brookstone apartment complex, at 2405 E. Upriver Drive, in East Spokane, and the 18-unit Brookside apartment complex, at 13129 E. Valleyway, in Spokane Valley.

Spokane bankers frustrated by sluggish guidance on PPP

Flexibility Act causes more confusion than clarity for some aspects of program

June 18, 2020

Virginia Thomas

Inland Northwest bankers say they're frustrated by a lack of federal guidance regarding particulars of the Paycheck Protection Program. Some say they and their customers are confused about some aspects of the program.

SCC building is being expanded, renovated

Project intended to create new space for college's fire sciences program

June 4, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Construction crews have started work on a $1.7 million expansion and renovation of a building on the Spokane Community College campus, in East Spokane.

New apartment, townhome projects to create 154 units

Spokane Valley complex valued at $17.4 million

June 4, 2020

Virginia Thomas

Three residential projects with a total of 154 living units are in the works-two on Spokane's South Hill and one in Spokane Valley. Building permit information for The Monika Apartments, at 16618 E. Broadway, in Spokane Valley, shows that six buildin

Puget Sound Pipe & Supply to build West Plains operation

Company looks to expand access to Idaho, Montana

June 4, 2020

Natasha Nellis

Kent, Washington-based pipe valve and fitting manufacturer and retailer Puget Sound Pipe & Supply Co. plans to build a new, roughly 20,000-square-foot warehouse and office building on the West Plains to better serve customers in Eastern Washington, Idaho,