Real Estate & Construction

Labor shortage slows Spokane homebuilders

Lack of available lots also said hindering construction

August 3, 2017

Despite strong growth in existing home sales for the first half of the year, new home sales and construction are lagging behind last year's pace, homebuilding industry observers say. But that lag isn't due to a lack of demand, they say, pointing out

Capstone Construction starts projects worth about $1.9 million

Three North Side buildings are in need of roof repairs

July 20, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

Spokane-based remodeling and disaster restoration company Capstone Construction Co. has begun work on a trio of projects in North Spokane with a combined value of $1.9 million. Capstone President and owner Pat Cummings says the projects, located at 1211

New buildings planned at Blake Apartments in Valley

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July 20, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

The city of Spokane Valley recently has issued building permits valued at a total of about $6 million for two new buildings at the Blake Apartments complex in Spokane Valley. The structures, listed as buildings D and E at 13313 E. 4th Avenue, will be th

1.5-acre development planned along north Ruby

New Advance Auto Parts store slated on part of site

July 20, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

Construction will be starting soon on a new 1.5-acre commercial complex along Ruby Street just over a mile north of downtown Spokane that will include an Advance Auto Parts store. Mike Schmitz, of SDS Realty, of Spokane, is marketing the project, which

New road improves access to Playfair Commerce Park

Developer hopes project will spur interest in park

July 20, 2017

The owner and operators of the Playfair Commerce Park predict within a year as many as 5,000 vehicles will traverse through the park as a result of a newly opened street connecting Altamont Street with Ferry Avenue at the west end of the complex in East S

Cancer Care Northwest to expand North Side clinic

Practice will add machine with 4-D imaging capability

July 20, 2017

Spokane-based Cancer Care Northwest, a physician-owned oncology practice, wants to expand its clinic space at the Northpointe Office Plaza, at 605 E. Holland, in North Spokane, says a permit application submitted to the city of Spokane. Dr. Jason Call, t

$16.3 million in school work starts in Spangle

Graham named contractor for expansion, renovation

July 20, 2017

Mike McLean

Construction is underway on a multiphase, $16.3 million expansion and renovation project at the Liberty School District school complex in Spangle, about 20 miles south of Spokane. The project will be constructed in four phases with completion of the fina

Reardan school remodel, expansion project looms

Work on hold while district waits for matching funds

July 20, 2017

Kim Crompton

A Reardan-Edwall School District project that will include extensive elementary school and gym renovations and construction of an addition connecting the elementary school and nearby high school is waiting only on action by the Washington state Legislatur

Three structures in works at Liberty Lake business park

Complex to have eight buildings in total

July 20, 2017

With three buildings already finished, Bill Betts, owner of Liberty Lake's McKinzie Business Park, says the next three buildings are currently on the drawing table in some form. Betts says he expects construction on the fourth building at the business

Hospice of North Idaho erects support building

$2.8 million project will add meeting space, staff offices

July 20, 2017

Mike McLean

Hospice of North Idaho is expanding its campus in Coeur d'Alene with a $2.8 million community building. The two-story, 15,200-square-foot structure will be located just south of the Schneidmiller Hospice House building at 2290 W. Prairie, in northwest