Real Estate & Construction

Nonprofit looks to open soul food establishment

Eatery to be located In East Central area

August 27, 2015

A nonprofit group here called The Spokane Eastside Reunion Association (SERA) is working on opening a soul food restaurant in the former Flipper's Ice Cream building at 3029 E. Fifth in the East Central neighborhood. The 1,500-square-foot space, which

Aspen Dental-branded clinic planned in Valley

Chain says it now includes 500 practices in 31 states

August 27, 2015

LeAnn Bjerken

Aspen Dental Management Inc., a Syracuse, N.Y.-based chain that provides nonclinical, administrative and business support services to independently owned and operated dental practices, says it plans to open a clinic in Spokane Valley this fall. A yet-to-

Five projects start, slated in, near River Park Square

AMC to remodel theaters; new restaurant planned

August 27, 2015

LeAnn Bjerken

Five projects are planned or underway at River Park Square, the downtown mall located at 808 W. Main. Bryn West, River Park Square's general manager says that AMC Theatres, the Leawood, Kan.-based theater chain, is set to begin a floor-by-floor remode

School district to bid out skill center's second phase

Graham recently finished first part of $21.8 million job

August 27, 2015

Spokane Public Schools soon will solicit bids from contractors for the second phase of a $21.8 million expansion and modernization project at the Newtech Skill Center, at 4141 N. Regal.

City selects Seattle firm to design park landscape

Berger plans to complete initial work in early 2016

August 27, 2015

The Spokane Parks Board has selected Seattle-based Berger Partnership to complete the design and landscape of public spaces and park grounds for the Riverfront Park revitalization. The Park Board approved a $1.5-million contract with Berger Partnership e

Preparing for the Globe's next era

Pawn 1, Spokane Barre lease upper-floor space

August 27, 2015

Mike McLean

A development group that acquired the historic Globe Hotel building last fall expects to complete a thorough renovation and restoration project there and welcome new commercial tenants on the second and third floors of the three-story building in coming w

Developer eyes hotel near Sacred Heart

Environmental application submitted for Hampton Inn

August 27, 2015

Mike McLean

Spokane Valley-based commercial real estate investor James Mulloy plans to develop a 109-room Hampton Inn & Suites Hotel in the medical district on the lower South Hill, a proposal under environmental review by the city of Spokane shows. Mulloy heads up

Pawn 1 set to open three more outlets

Spokane chain soon to expand to 19 stores

August 27, 2015

Mike McLean

Pawn 1 Inc., the Spokane-based pawnshop chain, has big growth plans, including moving its corporate offices downtown next month and opening three new stores to bring its total store count to 19 by spring, says Mark Lax, the company's president and major

Met, Summit trusts OK'd for one last extension

Beneficiaries could reap close to $60 million in all

August 27, 2015

Kim Crompton

Investors hoping to recoup a larger portion of the money they had tied up in Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. and Summit Securities Inc. before those affiliated companies here shut down 11 years ago have received some encouraging news. Based on the

Spanning the district

Gateway Bridge project seen as East Sprague spark

August 27, 2015

Mike McLean

Now that funding is committed to erect the long-envisioned $15.4 million University District pedestrian bridge, the next step is to coordinate public and private development to maximize the critical access link, says Mark Mansfield, the new Spokane Univer