Real Estate & Construction

Windermere Liberty Lake to move into larger space

Company hopes to add 25 real estate agents this year

June 7, 2018

Black Pearl Holdings LLC, which does business as Windermere Valley/Liberty Lake real estate brokerage, plans to move its operations from the second floor to larger quarters on the third floor of the multitenant office building at 695 N. Legacy Ridge Drive

SRM Development secures $20 million in private capital

Spokane developer planning senior projects in California

June 7, 2018

Virginia Thomas

SRM Development LLC, a Spokane-based development company, has secured $20 million in capital through a private placement with investors. The developer, which focuses on senior housing, multifamily housing, and commercial buildings, will use SRM Senior Ho

Smart housing project planned in South Perry District

Work on $2 million Blockhouse project could start in early fall

June 7, 2018

Virginia Thomas

Six businesspeople from a variety of industries are coming together to build a $2 million 'smartâ€ housing development, called Blockhouse, in the South Perry District. Andy Barrett, one of the partners in the Blockhouse collaboration, says the group e

Volunteers of America plans $12 million Hope House in downtown Spokane

Low-income apartments, homeless women's shelter eyed at Linnie's Thai site

June 7, 2018

Virginia Thomas

Volunteers of America Eastern Washington & Northern Idaho plans to construct a 60-unit low-income apartment building with a shelter for homeless women downtown at 1301 W. Third, the current site of Linnie's Thai Cuisine restaurant, says Fawn Schott, VOA

Lot scarcity shackles Spokane homebuilders

Spokane struggles with dearth of land; plans for more building sites are in works

June 7, 2018

Samantha Peone

Spokane-area homebuilders have been struggling to find enough land to meet the demand for single-family homes, some construction industry professionals say. The land need is constraining new home inventory, which in turn could be contributing to rising h

Building permit application filed for presumed Amazon center

Project's value listed at $181 million

June 4, 2018

Mike McLean

The Spokane County Building and Planning Department has received a building permit application for a presumed Amazon.com Inc. distribution center. The application lists the project value at $181 million. The project site is on the West Plains, on the n

On The JoB podcast: potential Amazon fulfillment center in the Spokane area

In this episode, Journal deputy editor Mike McLean discusses the potential Amazon fulfillment center in the Spokane area.

May 29, 2018

Staff Report

Place LA is off to strong start in blooming economy

Young firm completed 63 projects in 2017, aims for more contracts this year

May 24, 2018

Virginia Thomas

After more than two decades working in landscape architecture, Joshua Tripp started Place Landscape Architecture LLC here on April Fool's Day in 2016 with just $100 in a business account. Since then, says Tripp, the landscape architecture firm has flour

Alternative approach to construction gains traction

Recreation center, Sportsplex use progressive design-build

May 24, 2018

Samantha Peone

A type of design-build project delivery method known as progressive design-build is catching on in the state, and that approach already is being employed on a couple of Spokane-area projects, says veteran architect Rustin Hall.

Old City Hall building changes hands

$4 million renovation slated at six-story building in core

May 24, 2018

Samantha Peone

Real estate investment company Wall Street LLC has bought the six-story Old City Hall building in downtown Spokane for $5.3 million, says one of the company's partners, Nicholas Knapton. Located on the southwest corner of Spokane Falls Boulevard and