Real Estate & Construction

Historic Jenkins Building poised to add apartments

Developer starts remodel that's to cost $2.2 million

January 15, 2015

Demolition has started on the $2.2 million extensive remodel of the historic Jenkins building on North Monroe, says owner Mark Agee, Spokane business owner and developer, who purchased the building for $750,000 last May.

City of Liberty Lake award Appleway Avenue repaving job

Streetlights, landscaped median also to be installed

January 15, 2015

Katie Ross

The city of Liberty Lake awarded last month the contract for its planned $1.7 million repaving and improvement project on Appleway Boulevard, says Katy Allen, city administrator for Liberty Lake. 'Appleway is a very important street in our city for bu

Diabetic-friendly food store to open in Spokane Valley

Not So Sweet will carry array of sugar-free items

January 15, 2015

Mike McLean

Not So Sweet, a new diabetic-friendly grocery store, will debut this winter in Spokane Valley, says Michael Hall, the store owner. Hall has leased a 3,100-square-foot, single-story building at 302 S. Pines Road that formerly was occupied by Labor Ready a

City of Spokane awards contract for downtown gateway project

Long-anticipated project targets beautification, safety goals

January 15, 2015

Katie Ross

The city of Spokane has awarded a contract for development of its long-awaited $598,000 Division Street gateway project, says Jan Quintrall, director of business and development services for the city.

Development proposals percolate downtown

High-rise, office, parking structures among spate of projects being explored

January 15, 2015

Mike McLean

Major downtown construction projects such as the ongoing Davenport Grand Hotel and the recently completed Spokane Convention Center expansion, as well as planned historic Ridpath renovations, likely are drawing additional developer interest to the city'

Spokane Public Radio's project on fast track for completion

Project funds mostly now raised, station's GM say

January 15, 2015

Judith Spitzer

On the eve of Spokane Public Radio's 35th anniversary, renovations of its future home at former Fire Station No. 3 on North Monroe Street are on schedule, and the station has secured most of the $5 million needed for the project, says Cary Boyce, SPR'

Foreclosure numbers dip in Spokane, remain historically high

Housing recovery said to hinge on job growth

January 15, 2015

Mike McLean

Foreclosure actions completed in 2014 in Spokane County fell 19 percent compared with the record number of foreclosures in 2013, but they're still historically high, some housing-market observers here say. The Spokane County Auditor's Office recorded

$15 million-plus office complex eyed along Spokane River

Project near U-District to include four buildings

January 15, 2015

Mike McLean

Spokane developer and contractor Eric Brown says he plans to construct a $15 million-plus office complex near the south bank of the Spokane River, on the eastern edge of the University District. The project, tentatively named Spokane River Properties Dev

120-unit rental complex set to start on South Hill

Whitewater Creek permitted to begin $16 million project

December 18, 2014

Mike McLean

Hayden-based developer and contractor Whitewater Creek Inc. has obtained permits from Spokane County to begin construction of the first of two $16 million affordable-housing projects it has planned on the South Hill. The 120-unit Summit Ridge Apartments

Downtown auto service garage buys own building

Mechanic's Pride's move due to big Lexus project

December 18, 2014

Mike McLean

Mechanic's Pride Tire & Automotive Inc., a Spokane-based auto service business, has bought a 13,600-square-foot, single-story building at the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Jefferson Street and plans to move there from its longtime flagship locat