Real Estate & Construction

Spokane-area low-income homes updated with grant

Developer improves houses for tenants with disabilities

April 26, 2018

Dublin, Ohio-based Options for Supported Housing will complete a redevelopment project involving four separate Spokane-area houses to be leased to low-income people with developmental disabilities, says Jacob Pollowitz, housing developer and asset manager

Wonder Adaptive Reuse project progresses

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April 26, 2018

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Schweitzer Engineering plans big new building in Midwest

Facility near Purdue University could employ 300 people

April 19, 2018

Pullman, Wash.-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. says it plans to build a 100,000-square-foot electrical power and research facility near Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. that could generate 300 or more jobs there. The Schweitzer

$5 million multiuse structure proposed in city's core

Building would house condos, commercial space

April 12, 2018

Samantha Peone

Spokane-based developer and contractor Gerald Kofmehl has proposed constructing a roughly $5 million multiuse building on the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Bernard Street in downtown Spokane, says Brian Butler, spokesperson for the project and co-

Construction should invest more in people

Industrywide commitment to worker training needed

April 12, 2018

Kim Waseca-Love

It took mere months for the Great Recession to claim millions of American jobs. Now, as employers scramble to rebuild the workforce, they're facing a dilemma: The labor pool is shrinking, and it could be decades before it comes back. Across the nation,

The INB Performing Arts Center's next act

Iconic venue set for $22.3 million overhaul

April 12, 2018

The INB Performing Arts Center debuted 44 years ago as part of the World's Fair. It's largely been untouched ever since. That will change, effective May 1. Operated by the Spokane Public Facilities District, the performing arts center will shut down

Amazon of a project is in the works in Spokane area

Not HQ2, but proposal near airport still big by any standard

April 12, 2018

Mike McLean

The Spokane County Planning Department is reviewing conceptual plans for a massive distribution facility to be constructed near Spokane International Airport. While the name of the company that will operate the facility is conspicuously absent from the p

Current Spokane Public Schools projects valued at $55.7 million

Work on Linwood gears up; crews well underway at Franklin Elementary

March 29, 2018

Samantha Peone

Spokane Public Schools has about $55.7 million in construction projects in the works this year. Construction was scheduled to begin in late March on the $20.7 million Linwood Elementary School replacement project at 906 W. Weile, says Greg Forsyth, direc

SCC Old Main project to start this month

Official says work delayed by state capital budget holdup

March 29, 2018

LeAnn Bjerken

Construction is starting up on Spokane Community College's $20 million expansion and remodeling project that will enlarge and update instructional spaces in the structure known as the Old Main Building, on the south side of the campus in the Chief Garry

EWU to wrap up PUB renovation by fall

$47.5 million science building project also to start this year

March 29, 2018

LeAnn Bjerken

Eastern Washington University has two major projects worth a total of $78.5 million in the works this year on its main campus in Cheney, 17 miles southwest of Spokane. Shawn King, associate vice president of facilities and planning at EWU, says construct