Real Estate & Construction

Project plans swell at Catholic Charities of Spokane

Goals include apartments for all Spokane homeless

April 21, 2016

Catholic Charities of Spokane and its housing partners plan to break ground this year on multiple developments with a construction value approaching $60 million that would provide nearly 500 low-income apartment units in the Spokane area. Preliminary pla

Retail buildings eyed along East Sprague

Fast-food chain said to be considering one of the sites

April 7, 2016

Cantu Commercial Properties LLC, of Spokane, is pursuing retailers for two proposed new buildings to be constructed along the 3900 block of east Sprague Avenue. The buildings would be constructed on vacant parcels at 3907 and 3911 E. Sprague, says Cantu

Baker starts constructing retail project north of 'Y'

Aspen Dental, Mod Pizza, Wells Fargo to be tenants

April 7, 2016

Mike McLean

Baker Construction & Development Inc., of Spokane, has obtained building permits to construct Heritage North, a 10,000-square-foot, three-tenant retail building that will replace two, nearly 40-year-old buildings at 9405 N. Newport Highway. Prominent Spo

Fruci firm buys former Keller Williams building

Move from longtime site downtown planned in fall

April 7, 2016

Mike McLean

Spokane accounting firm Fruci & Associates PS has bought for $1.9 million the 14,300-square-foot, single-story office building at 802 N. Washington that formerly was occupied by Keller Williams Realty Spokane. The firm plans to move there from the Fruci B

Second Einstein Bros. shop opens here

Bagel franchisee to open more stores in Spokane

April 7, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

Einstein Bros. Bagels franchisee Matthew Schmidt has opened a bagel shop in the newly completed Peppertree Plaza at the northwest corner of Third Avenue and Division Street that's his second in the Spokane area and his third overall. Schmidt says he'

GVD set to remodel buildings along First Avenue

Dicker plans events center to be called Montvale Hall

April 7, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

Spokane developer Jerry Dicker, owner of Spokane-based GVD Hospitality Management Services Inc., says he is committed to improving downtown Spokane, and his newest project involves improvements to the 1000 block of west First Avenue. 'I'm interested

Providing workers conduit to careers in construction

West Plains facility seeks to replenish laborer ranks

April 7, 2016

Mike McLean

The Construction Industry Training Council of Washington is helping more than 100 mostly Spokane-area workers start careers in construction trades with classroom and lab courses at its new Eastern Washington Region facility on the West Plains. CITC, the

McDowell reworks condo plan

1400 Tower project would front W. Riverside Avenue

April 7, 2016

Mike McLean

Spokane developer Mick McDowell says he plans to construct a 14-story, 50-unit condominium tower west of downtown, uphill from a site where he had proposed a contentious project a decade ago. The latest project, to be called the 1400 Tower, would be loca

Jensen-Byrd redeveloper gives first glimpse of plan

$45 million project would include office additions

March 24, 2016

Mike McLean

JB LLC, the Seattle-based development company recently selected by Washington State University to redevelop the historic Jensen-Byrd Building and adjacent properties, has begun to share its $45 million-plus vision for the site with city planners. A prede

Proposed Coeur d'Alene hotel to anchor $20 million complex

Fairfield Inn would fuel entrepreneurial center

March 24, 2016

Mike McLean

Coeur d'Alene businessman Ron Ayers says the hotel he's planning would be the engine that drives an economic development campus, in addition to increasing lodging capacity near downtown Coeur d'Alene. Ayers proposes to develop a $10 million, 112-ro