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

Demolition of the roughly 54-year-old former YWCA buildings in downtown Spokane began last month to make room for the planned $60 million mixed-use development dubbed The Falls.