Real Estate & Construction

Design work starts for Trent Avenue bridge replacement

Bids for $20 million project to be sought in fall of 2018

March 16, 2017

The Washington state Department of Transportation is designing a replacement for the East Trent Avenue Bridge, which crosses the Spokane River just east of Hamilton Street in East Spokane. Al Gilson, Spokane-based spokesman for WDSOT, says the $20 milli

Ridpath project is jelling, developer Ron Wells says

Work could start this spring, pending approval of loans

March 16, 2017

Mike McLean

Spokane developer Ron Wells says financing is coming together for acquiring and converting the long-shuttered Ridpath Hotel complex into downtown housing. With final loan approval appearing close at hand, work on the $22 million project could start as ea

New boutique real estate agency opens downtown

Brokerage to focus on remodeling, flipping market

March 2, 2017

Mike McLean

Scout Real Estate, a new Spokane real estate agency, has opened downtown, says owner and managing broker Brian Bean. The agency occupies 800 square feet of office space on the main floor of a historic three-story building at 101 S. Stevens, where it hope

Real Estate Roundup: Solderer now independent after parent-company sale

CTS moves to quarters in Valley industrial park

March 2, 2017

Mike McLean

Component Tinning Services Inc., a recent independent spinoff of Spokane Valley-based ACE Production Technologies Inc., has moved to new quarters in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park. CTS now occupies 1,300 square feet of space at 3020 N. Sullivan,

Q&A with Melissa Murphy: In her Prime

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March 2, 2017

Linn Parish

Melissa Murphy started her career as a Realtor at the height of the residential real estate market in Spokane in the mid-2000s, then founded her own brokerage when that market troughed out about five years later. After five years in business, Prime Real

Business-class drones to take off

Commercial use of UAVs found to improve efficiency

March 2, 2017

Mike McLean

Commercial drone use is taking off, and soon more Spokane-area industries and businesses big and small are likely to see and hear what the buzz is about, some drone users here say. Robert Rees, owner of Rees Aerials LLC, of Spokane, has been flying drone

Big Avista-led project to serve as catalyst near East Sprague

Project proposed near planned University District Gateway Bridge

March 2, 2017

Mike McLean

An affiliate of Spokane-based energy company Avista Corp. has entered the early land-use planning stage with the city of Spokane for the first phase of an ambitious development concept for the area near the south landing of the soon-to-be constructed Univ

New Wolffy's restaurant opens on West Plains

Menu differs from that at family's U District eatery

February 16, 2017

Mike McLean

A second Wolffy's restaurant has opened here, this one in Airway Heights. The restaurant, Wolffy's Breakfast, Burgers & Brew, is located in a 2,600-square-foot former Taco Time building at 12807 W. 14th. The restaurant is operated by the same family

$10 million La Quinta Hotel slated near airport

Construction scheduled to get underway in March

February 16, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

Plans are in the works for the construction of a $10 million La Quinta Hotel that's to be built at 4523 S. Dowdy Road, just south of Spokane International Airport and visible from Interstate 90. Surinder Khela, managing broker with Kent, Wash.-based B

Avista Development buys Seehorn-Lang building

Historic structure is part of Steam Plant Square

February 16, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

Avista Corp. subsidiary Avista Development has bought the Seehorn-Lang building, located on the west side of the Steam Plant Square complex that Avista owns in downtown Spokane. Avista Development declines to disclose how much it paid for the two-story,