Real Estate & Construction

Amazon to staff up by fall of 2019

Workers to come from unemployed, employed, throughout region

August 2, 2018

Before the 2019 holiday rush, Amazon.com Inc. hopes to have nearly all 1,500 positions filled at the massive fulfillment center under construction on the West Plains, says company spokesperson Lauren Lynch. Amazon will begin hiring a few weeks before the

Recruiting from the West Side

City wants professionals, managers to locate here

August 2, 2018

Mike McLean

The city of Spokane is preparing to launch its own job recruiting initiative aimed at attracting West Side companies to bring highly paid professional and management-level jobs here. The campaign, the first of its kind for the city, likely will start

YES, SPOKANE, IT'S AMAZON!

Mega-retailer discloses plans for massive warehouse on the West Plains

July 20, 2018

Mike McLean

It's Amazon. Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. today delivered confirmation of earlier reports first published by the Journal that the online mega-retailer plans to construct a massive distribution facility that will employ more than 1,500 people on the We

$3.4 million apartment project in the works at Five Mile

Complex to include 39 units in four buildings

July 19, 2018

Samantha Peone

Spokane Valley-based Brumback Construction Inc. plans to build a $3.4 million apartment complex to be named Cedar Flats Apartments at 6619 N. Cedar Road in the Five Mile area of North Spokane, says Nick Brumback, company president. The project, which is

Downtowner Motel eyed for apartment conversion

Developers plan $2.5M renovations for property

July 19, 2018

Virginia Thomas

A Spokane real estate team plans to transform the defunct Downtowner Motel, at 165 S. Washington, into a 45-unit apartment building. Dallas Lightner, one of the owners of LT Real Estate Investments LLC, which does business as LT Real Estate & Property Ma

Argonne Montgomery Self Storage expands

$900K project provides space for current demand, future growth

July 19, 2018

Samantha Peone

Construction is under way on a $900,000 self-storage facility expansion project at 8915 E. Montgomery in Spokane Valley, says Matt Rounsley, general manager of Spokane Valley-based Brumback Construction Inc., the contractor on the project. Argonne Montgo

New statute affects condo, homeowners associations

Law for common-interest communities applies to all developers, sellers, others

July 19, 2018

Brett Sullivan

On July 1, major changes to Washington state law governing homeowners and condominium owners associations took effect. Representing approximately 12 years of effort by lawyers, developers, builders, and real estate professionals, those changes affect all

Early plans for Division Costco building surface

Warehouse tenants would be gym, trampoline park, others, drawings suggest

July 19, 2018

Samantha Peone

As Costco Wholesale Corp. gears up for the scheduled grand opening of its 167,000-square-foot warehouse on Newport Highway tomorrow, July 20, preliminary plans filed with the city of Spokane illuminate possible future uses for the 134,000-square-foot ware

Nonprofit plans $10.2 million Hillyard rental complex

Spokane Housing Ventures project designed to benefit families in NE part of town

July 19, 2018

LeAnn Bjerken

Spokane Housing Ventures plans to build a new housing complex along Francis Avenue, in northeast Spokane's Hillyard neighborhood. Dave Roberts, senior developer for the nonprofit, says the $10.2 million project, which consists of a 48-unit, three-stor

Lydig Construction selected to build $60 million Interdisciplinary Science Center at EWU

Work is expected to start later this month

July 19, 2018

Virginia Thomas

Eastern Washington University has selected Lydig Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, as the contractor for the Interdisciplinary Science Center, to be built on the university's Cheney campus. Lydig submitted a bid of $45.3 million for the project-m