Two commercial developments proposed by Spokane businessperson Sam Sidhu and first reported by the Journal in spring 2021 are on track to begin this building season, according to people familiar with each project.

The city of Spokane Valley has issued a commercial building permit for construction of a $3 million, 16-bed residential care facility. The project site is on an acre of land surrounded by commercial and residential uses at 17927 E. Appleway,

Construction is planned or underway for six new restaurants in Spokane with expected openings starting this summer and continuing through mid-2023.

Liberty Ciderworks plans to move its tasting room and facility to a 7,000-square-foot building near downtown that it will share with a design-build architecture and construction company.

A residential development is proposed just south of the envisioned YMCA of the Inland Northwest fitness center site in the Moran Prairie area south of Spokane. The proposal calls for 30 acres of land to be divided into 121 lots in the low-density

Small towns that are within an hour's drive of Spokane are seeing an increase in new home starts as developers turn to them for buildable land as infill opportunities in the urban area become harder to find, industry and planning officials say.

Three industrial warehouse buildings will be under construction this summer at a new development called West Plains Logistics, at 9813 W. Hallett Road, in west Spokane.

Some lenders here say they're working around challenges to finance commercial construction developments and keep projects moving forward despite soaring prices of construction materials and rising labor costs, which have resulted in some project

Gantry Inc. has procured $4.8 million in permanent financing on behalf of Black Enterprises LP for the Marjorie Apartments, in downtown Spokane, says Demetri Koston, principal at the Spokane office of the San Francisco-based full-service mortgage

Kelly Right International Inc., a Spokane-based real estate company, has reported over $270 million in local residential sales volume two years after rebranding two of its divisions, Kelly Right Real Estate and Modus Mortgage, company representatives say.