Spokane County has begun the permitting process for the planned $10 million renovation of a former carpet and wholesale flooring store at 102 S. Spokane, on the edge of the University District

Construction is under way on a new $12 million, 30,000-square-foot Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery facility at 2230 E. Sprague.

Cascadia Senior Living LLC's Fieldstone Memory Care assisted-living center is taking shape on Spokane's South Hill and is expected to open this fall.

Hope House, a women's shelter and low-income apartment complex that Volunteers of America Eastern Washington & Northern Idaho is developing, is expected to open next year on the western edge of downtown Spokane

A second Ronald McDonald House is under construction on Spokane's lower South Hill, marking the first major expansion in 17 years for Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Inland Northwest.

Two new buildings worth a total of about $57 million are coming out of the ground on the southern edge of Spokane's University District. Construction crews broke ground last fall on the seven-level, 159,000-square-foot Catalyst Building

Eastern Washington University has one large construction project underway and is seeking more than $27 million in funding for two others during this year's state legislative session.

Cheney High School, at 460 N. Sixth in Cheney, is undergoing a $30 million expansion project, says Robert W. Roettger, Cheney School District superintendent. The multiphase construction project, which was started last summer, will be completed around May

The Shiloh Hills Elementary School modernization and expansion is slated to be completed just in time for the 2019-2020 school year, says Ned Wendle, Mead School District director of facilities and planning.

Central Valley School District says construction is well underway on its Selkirk Middle School project, and work is set to begin this spring on two more projects.