Real Estate & Construction

Valley library plans might receive new lease on life

City, district appear poised to extend facility agreement

July 20, 2017

The Spokane County Library District and the city of Spokane Valley are set to amend and extend an agreement that would allow for the construction of a library at the northeast corner of Sprague Avenue and Herald Street, just across Sprague from the new Ci

Old Cheney High School converting to apartments

Historic structure will have 36 units for EWU students

July 20, 2017

Mike McLean

Seattle-based developers are repurposing the old Cheney High School building as rental housing, targeting Eastern Washington University students. The three-story building, at 520 Fourth in Cheney, near the eastern edge of the EWU Campus, will have 36 apa

Taking recreation to new heights

West Plains health complex to be completed in late '18

July 20, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

The city of Airway Heights is set to begin construction this fall on its planned community recreation center. Plans for the project, which is being funded through a $13 million bond approved by voters last August, call for the construction of a two-story

Costco environmental decision appealed

Planner says finding not likely to be overturned

July 20, 2017

Mike McLean

A resident of the Camelot neighborhood, located across the Newport Highway from the planned Costco site north of Spokane, wants a more thorough environmental review of the project. Tom Cooney, a retired attorney, has appealed the county's findings-ca

Spokane-area home values, sales marching upward

Median price for first half of year reaches $205,000

July 20, 2017

Mike McLean

Home sales here are continuing strong growth both in numbers sold and in median sales prices, says Tom McArthur, a spokesman for the Spokane Association of Realtors. In the first half of this year, 3,530 homes were sold through the association's Multip

Spokane Tribe preps for industrial push

Spokanes envision 155-acre 'green' business park, solar farm next to STEP site

July 20, 2017

The Spokane Tribe of Indians is laying the ground for its next ambitious step on the West Plains-developing a 155-acre 'greenâ€ industrial park to support its goal of creating its own utility company that would generate and distribute solar energy.

Two Spokane Valley factories imminent

Katerra Inc., Progress Rail likely to announce plants

July 6, 2017

Mike McLean

Progress Rail Services, of Albertville, Ala., and Menlo Park, Calif.-based Katerra Inc. might be gearing up to announce soon their plans to construct plants that that could lead to hundreds of living-wage manufacturing jobs in Spokane Valley

Riverstone Village retail store space now fully leased

All 160 acres at Cd'A site either bought or spoken for

July 6, 2017

Mike McLean

There's no space left to lease at the Riverstone Village retail center in Coeur d'Alene, and all of the land in the surrounding 160-acre Riverstone development is spoken for, says a commercial real estate broker involved in many of the recent transact

Office, retail structure in Mead to be expanded

Developer plans addition to physical therapy building

June 22, 2017

Mike McLean

Charles Gallagher, owner of the Institute for Physical & Sports Therapy, is developing a second phase of the multitenant commercial center, near Mead, in which the institute is a charter occupant. The 6,000-square-foot, two-story addition will be on the

200-acre industrial park eyed in Spokane Valley

Property would have 100-acre lots, rail access

June 22, 2017

Centennial Real Estate Investments and the city of Spokane Valley are moving closer to finalizing plans for the development of a 200-acre industrial park amid efforts to woo at least two major manufacturers there as tenants. Doug Yost, Centennial's di