Cheney High School, at 460 N. Sixth in Cheney, is undergoing a $30 million expansion project, says Robert W. Roettger, Cheney School District superintendent. The multiphase construction project, which was started last summer, will be completed around May

The Shiloh Hills Elementary School modernization and expansion is slated to be completed just in time for the 2019-2020 school year, says Ned Wendle, Mead School District director of facilities and planning.

Central Valley School District says construction is well underway on its Selkirk Middle School project, and work is set to begin this spring on two more projects.

Spokane Public Schools, for which voters passed a $495 million construction bond in November, has about $164 million in construction projects in the works this year.

Three hotels valued at a total exceeding $26 million are under construction or planned to be this year near Spokane International Airport. Spokane County has issued a building permit for a $10 million, 85-unit La Quinta Inn hotel at 4611 S. Dowdy Road.

Construction is underway on the massive $181 million Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center on the West Plains that's expected to be completed this summer and fully staffed in the fall.

Work on the seven-story, $10 million-plus multiuse building on west First Avenue at the west end of downtown is well underway. Spokane-based T.W. Clark Construction LLC is the general contractor on the project

The $40 million Sportsplex planned near downtown is currently in the design-review and budget planning stage under the purview of the Spokane Public Facility District's board of directors