Real Estate & Construction

Extended-stay hotel opens after long renovation

Old Solar World complex rehabbed over two years

April 13, 2017

Lee Carney, principal and general manager at Turning Leaf Townhomes extended-stay lodging on Spokane's North Side, says the facility is now fully operational after two years of room-by-room rehabilitation of the former Solar World Estates complex. Turn

$1.5 million project slated at Music City Building

Structure to be converted to living, commercial uses

April 13, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

Spokane-based developer GVD Hospitality Management Services Inc. plans to start work this month on a $1.5 million renovation project at the vacant Music City Building downtown, continuing work at its properties along the 1000 block of west First Avenue.

Single-family, multifamily markets still hot

Some observers, though, foresee possible late-year softening

March 30, 2017

Kim Crompton

The residential construction market here, much like last year, is expected to continue to sizzle through the rest of this year, although a worrisome lack of developable lots and qualified subcontractors is increasingly on developers' and builders' min

Cost Less Carpet moves Spokane Valley outlet to larger space

Flooring chain takes former Ciena data center

March 30, 2017

Cost Less Carpet store manager Wayne Gladden says the 2-year-old Spokane Valley store has moved to a building the company purchased at 115 N. Sullivan, giving it seven times more space than its previous Spokane Valley location, at 15310 E. Marietta. 'I

Door, window installer to move, expand in Valley

Operation on Trent will include fabrication shop

March 30, 2017

Mike McLean

Marcus Ridgely, owner of Window Replacement Systems Inc., which also does business as Northwest Window & Door, has bought a 16,600-square-foot, single-story building at 12015 E. Trent and plans to move the company there from smaller quarters at 12018 E. F

Interstate Concrete secures site in Colville

Company, Knife River have asset exchange

March 30, 2017

Rathdrum-based Interstate Concrete & Asphalt Co. says it has acquired a new location in Colville as part of what it calls 'an exchange of assetsâ€ with Knife River Corp. The Colville site becomes Interstate Concrete's second location in Eastern Wash

Egnyte Inc. sets growth plan in motion with move

Tech company to occupy top floors of Luigi's building

March 30, 2017

With an immediate eye toward expansion, Egnyte Inc., which bills itself as a hybrid, cloud-based file sharing company with an office located in the Spokane Valley, will move that office to downtown Spokane at the beginning of April to better accommodate e

Downtown Cd'A structure to be converted into hotel

Project involves rebuilding level lost to fire years ago

March 30, 2017

Mike McLean

New owners of a downtown Coeur d'Alene retail and office building known as the Dingle Building plan to convert and expand the structure into a boutique hotel to be named CDA Grand Hotel, planning information on file with the city of Coeur d'Alene show

Schweitzer Engineering buys old ITT Technical Institute building in Valley

Company's operations here to move later this year

March 30, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. plans to relocate its Spokane Valley offices to a newly purchased building that it says will better accommodate its growth. The big Pullman-based company, which invents, designs, and builds digital products and sy

Plans for Mann center end in heap

Shuttered Hillyard landmark razed for Douglass project

March 30, 2017

Mike McLean

After multiple attempts by local public entities to find ways to preserve and repurpose the Hillyard landmark Joe E. Mann Army Reserve Center complex, the long-vacant, brick-and-masonry buildings have been demolished to make way for rental storage units.