Treva Lind

Leone & Keeble lands job to erect big EWU building

Five-level, 350-bed dorm to cost $25 million in all, to be completed next year

September 27, 2012

Spokane-based Leone & Keeble Inc. has started construction under a $15.6 million contract to build a 350-bed residence hall at Eastern Washington University in the northwest area of the school's Cheney campus. The five-story, 101,000-square-foot

Spokane contractor awarded Clarkston treatment plant

Williams Brother to begin $13.5 million in upgrades to improve effluent quality

September 27, 2012

Treva Lind

Williams Brother Construction LLC, of Spokane, has won a $13.5 million contract for a major improvement project at the wastewater-treatment plant that serves the city of Clarkston, Wash.The project, which was scheduled to start at the end of new

Graham Construction awarded $9.3 million Ephrata hospital project

Spokane contractor starts $9.3 million project to expand, remodel the rural health care complex

September 27, 2012

Treva Lind

Graham Construction & Management Inc., of Spokane, has won a $9.3 million contract for an expansion and renovation of the Columbia Basin Hospital, in Ephrata, Wash.Doug Hammond, a Spokane-based Graham Construction business development manager, a

Sports: It's in the bag

September 27, 2012

Treva Lind

Curtis Medlen, 47-year-old co-founder of Spokane Valley-based Sport SAQ USA Inc., says he first got the idea 20 years ago to create athletic bags with specially-designed compartments to carry the gear specific to a sport such as basketball.As in

$25 million-plus development to advance at Beacon Hill

$25 million-plus project with 256 living units could start next spring in East Spokane

September 27, 2012

Treva Lind

Envisioned since 1983, a large Beacon Hill development could start next spring with the first-phase construction of a $25 million-plus, 256-unit townhouse-and-apartment complex at the base of that hill in East Spokane.Beacon Hill Spokane One by

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Aircraft component manufacturer Triumph Composite to hike hiring

Aerospace supplier ramps up toward 700 workers

September 27, 2012

Treva Lind

Spokane-based Triumph Composite Systems Inc., which manufactures composite interior components for commercial aircraft, expects to ramp up hiring by next year to keep pace with Boeing Co.'s scheduled production increases.Tim Stevens, Triumph a

Moderate Means provides affordable counsel

Young statewide system links attorneys, people with moderate income

September 13, 2012

Treva Lind

A legal-assistance program with ties to Gonzaga University's law school has started filling a previously unmet statewide need to provide affordable representation to moderate-income households, says an attorney based at the school.Called Means,

Dutch Bros. Coffee opens new stand near Whitworth

September 13, 2012

Treva Lind

GTG Ventures LLC, a Spokane company that operates Dutch Bros. Coffee stands, has opened a new coffee outlet on Spokane's North Side, its fifth here.The business's new drive-through coffee stand is located at 8701 N. Division, at the northwest of

Motion Auto Supply opens store in Post Falls, its ninth outlet overall

Company has nine outlets in Washington and Idaho for retail, wholesale parts

September 13, 2012

Treva Lind

Spokane-based automotive parts retailer and wholesaler Parts Wholesalers Inc., doing business as Motion Auto Supply, has opened a store in Post Falls, its ninth overall.The Post Falls outlet is located in a leased 5,000-square-foot building at a

Waste Management, others add natural gas-powered fleets, fueling stations

Avista, Waste Management motor toward a cheaper, clean-burning alternative

September 13, 2012

Treva Lind

The use of natural gas as a cheaper, cleaner-burning fuel for fleet vehicles is gaining traction among some U.S. businesses that operate route systems, including Avista Corp. and Waste Management Inc. here.The two companies are developing gas at