Real Estate & Construction

Car wash plaza owners plan sixth facility here, to build on old Marie Callendar's site in Valley

Vandervert breaks ground on project, expects to complete it in June

April 10, 2014

John Hansen and business partner Barbara Chisholm, co-owners of five car wash plazas in the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area, plan to open a sixth facility in June at the former Marie Callender's Restaurant site, in Spokane Valley. Vandervert Construction

Meridian Construction wins contract to construct gym at Salk Middle School

$6.1 million junior high job to be finished late this year

April 10, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Spokane Public Schools has accepted a $6.1 million bid from Meridian Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, to build a gymnasium at Salk Middle School, on Spokane's North Side, says Greg Brown, the district's director of capital projects. The total pro

WSU begins work on big clean-tech lab building

$52.8 million structure to bear PACCAR name

April 10, 2014

Staff Report

Washington State University has begun construction of a $52.8 million clean technology laboratory building on its Pullman campus and says it will name the building after a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that made a sizable donation to the school. Presid

Leone & Keeble seeing increase in work this year

Contractor specializes in schools, medical projects

April 10, 2014

Katie Ross

Leone & Keeble Inc., a Spokane-based general contractor, anticipates an annual work volume of about $60 million worth of projects this year, up from about $52 million last year, says company President Craig Leone. Also, its profit margins have been

Infusion service provider sets move to larger space

Coram signs lease for old Thomasville site in Valley

April 10, 2014

Mike McLean

Denver-based Coram Specialty Infusion Services has leased the former Thomasville Furniture retail building, at 5511 E. Third, in Spokane Valley, and plans to move its Spokane branch there from smaller quarters, says a real estate broker involved in the le

Multitenant warehouse project planned at Playfair Commerce Park

$3.2 million project eyed north of Scafco buildings

April 10, 2014

Mike McLean

Playfair Commerce Park LLC, of Spokane, is in the early planning stage for a $3.2 million, multitenant warehouse building at the site of the former horse racing track on the east edge of Spokane, a predevelopment application submitted to the city shows.

Convention Center project advances - Art Only

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April 10, 2014

Mike McLean

Clean technology laboratory building slated - Art Only

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April 10, 2014

Staff Report

Multifamily magnetism

Apartment market said to be hot for investors, developers

April 10, 2014

Mike McLean

At least three sizable apartment complexes with a total value of $42 million are in the construction pipeline in the Spokane area and several sources say they expect to see more apartment projects proposed and under construction here in the coming year.

Hotel promoters here predict some pain before gain

New hotel's rooms will take time for market to absorb

March 27, 2014

Mike McLean

The Spokane-area hospitality market could take up to five years to absorb all of the new rooms that the new convention center hotel will add to it when the 715-room establishment opens downtown in the summer of 2015, lodging and tourism promoters says. I