Real Estate & Construction

City explores housing quality action

Next public meeting will be held June 30

June 22, 2017

City of Spokane officials are reaching out to community organizations and residents this month to gather input about housing quality in the city. Three public meetings have been held in June to review recommendations offered by Mayor David Condon's Hou

Improvements envisioned at Harvard Road overpass

Liberty Lake hopes to ease congestion, improve safety

June 8, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

The City of Liberty Lake is starting planning to revise the Harvard Road overpass spanning Interstate 90, in an effort to improve safety and reduce traffic congestion. The city's website shows that plans for the project include creating an additional r

Work starts on two big Valley apartment projects

Adjacent rental complex phases total $35.5 million

June 8, 2017

Mike McLean

The city of Spokane Valley recently has issued building permits valued at a total of $35.5 million for two big phases to neighboring, but separately owned apartment complexes. One set of permits is for the $20.3 million, 192-unit second phase to Bella Te

Numerica Credit Union remodels space at its Valley headquarters

Business services to move into previously unused area

June 8, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

Numerica Credit Union has begun construction on a $2.6 million remodel of vacant space at its Spokane Valley headquarters, at 14610 E. Sprague. As the Journal reported earlier, the project is meant to accommodate growth in the credit union's business

Avista plans to construct new building for its fleet

Work to start in July on structure on its campus

June 8, 2017

Avista Corp. soon will begin construction of a 30,000-square-foot building on the northernmost portion of its campus that will replace a 70-year-old, 12,000-square-foot maintenance facility located next to the company's headquarters. The new, two-story

Vandervert Construction's modular hotel project to be template for Marriott

Spokane Contractor wraps Pullman job with prefabbed units

June 8, 2017

Mike McLean

Prominent Spokane-based general contractor Vandervert Construction Inc. is scheduled to complete construction on a Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Pullman this month using a hybrid construction method. That method is expected to be the template for new h

Riverview Retirement mulls memory-loss facility

Complex on Upriver would add 20 rooms for residents

June 8, 2017

Riverview Retirement Community, the Spokane-based nonprofit retirement complex operator, is looking to build a 20,000-square-foot facility dedicated exclusively to patients with memory care needs, according to a pre-development application filed with the

Newly formed Scout Real Estate finds that industry appeals to attorneys

Owner here adds partner, plans to diversify services

June 8, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

Scout Real Estate Group LLC, a newly established brokerage here is growing quickly, thanks in part to its owner's background in the practice of law. The company's owner and managing broker, Brian Bean, is an attorney who initially became interested

Appraiser shortage hits both private, public sectors

Profession has been losing workforce in recent years

June 8, 2017

Mike McLean

Filling a national shortage of real estate appraisers comes down to a matter of compensation catching up with demand, says Michael Robinson, owner of Hearthstone Appraisal PLLC, of Spokane. He adds, however, that some forces within the industry don't

Spokane Business & Industrial Park's occupancy peaks

Big complex shuns pot industry, benefits from space absorption elsewhere

June 8, 2017

Crown West Realty LLC executive Dean Stuart says the Spokane Business & Industrial Park's current 98 percent occupancy rate is the highest he's seen in his 17-year tenure with the company. SBIP, located at 3808 N. Sullivan, has a total of 5 million s