A $200 million Interstate 90 widening project is now underway in Kootenai County just as two other multiyear freeway improvement projects with a total construction value of $108 million are nearing completion.

Two downtown Coeur d’Alene hotel projects — a Marriott-brand hotel and Hagadone Hospitality Co.’s Sherman Tower project — are both in the middle stages of construction and expected to wrap up in 2027.

Work is continuing on the Millworx urban center in Post Falls, where Spokane-based developer A&A Construction & Development Inc. is breaking ground on a new mixed-use building dubbed Silo Block North.

Two mixed-use developments planned to include a total of over 2,000 residential units in Mead and Colbert, north of Spokane, are underway.

The first projects to be funded through the $440 million Together Spokane joint effort between Spokane Public Schools and city of Spokane Parks and Recreation are expected to be under construction this year, according to spokespeople for the two entities. Planning for several others also will be well underway before year-end.

To fund design work for a proposed new $146 million Spokane Veterans Home, the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs has requested additional funding from the state Legislature as part of its 2026 supplemental budget.

The planned three-story, 280,000-square-foot field house addition to Liberty Launch Academy, a nonprofit private school serving preschool to 12th-grade students in Liberty Lake, is awaiting final building permit approval from the city of Liberty Lake before crews can break ground.

Eastern Washington University’s $110 million Science Building renovation is nearing completion and is scheduled to open to students and faculty by this fall.

Two sports and entertainment venues in Spokane County continue to move forward through different stages of development.

Cancer Can’t, a Spokane-based nonprofit that supports adult cancer patients and their families in the Inland Northwest, has reached its $6 million fundraising goal and expects to break ground on its oncology lodging project in April, says Cancer Can't co-founder and board president Becky Van Keulen.