Samantha Peone

Retiring in Lilacs

Senior-living community offers activities, events

August 2, 2018

Larry Enloe thinks everybody should look into Lilac Plaza Retirement Community LLC. 'I love it â€¦ they have everything,â€ says Enloe, who has resident of the 14-floor independent-living retirement community for nine years. Enloe says he likes to car

Streaming the Beam

OAC Services uses robotic technology to provide clients with remote access

August 2, 2018

Samantha Peone

When Seattle-based OAC Services Inc. first introduced a remotely controlled, moveable robot that enabled the user to visit with people in its Spokane office, employees weren't sure what to do with it. 'At first, it was, well this is kind cool, but

Amazon to staff up by fall of 2019

Workers to come from unemployed, employed, throughout region

August 2, 2018

Samantha Peone

Before the 2019 holiday rush, Amazon.com Inc. hopes to have nearly all 1,500 positions filled at the massive fulfillment center under construction on the West Plains, says company spokesperson Lauren Lynch. Amazon will begin hiring a few weeks before the

$3.4 million apartment project in the works at Five Mile

Complex to include 39 units in four buildings

July 19, 2018

Samantha Peone

Spokane Valley-based Brumback Construction Inc. plans to build a $3.4 million apartment complex to be named Cedar Flats Apartments at 6619 N. Cedar Road in the Five Mile area of North Spokane, says Nick Brumback, company president. The project, which is

Argonne Montgomery Self Storage expands

$900K project provides space for current demand, future growth

July 19, 2018

Samantha Peone

Construction is under way on a $900,000 self-storage facility expansion project at 8915 E. Montgomery in Spokane Valley, says Matt Rounsley, general manager of Spokane Valley-based Brumback Construction Inc., the contractor on the project. Argonne Montgo

Spokane-based Moss Adams principal selected to lead national practice

Former Contineo owner heads financial services consulting division now

July 19, 2018

Samantha Peone

Seattle-based national accounting firm Moss Adams LLP, which has an office here, has named Spokane partner Craig Sanders as the national leader of the firm's financial services consulting practice, which covers all 50 states. The financial services con

Early plans for Division Costco building surface

Warehouse tenants would be gym, trampoline park, others, drawings suggest

July 19, 2018

Samantha Peone

As Costco Wholesale Corp. gears up for the scheduled grand opening of its 167,000-square-foot warehouse on Newport Highway tomorrow, July 20, preliminary plans filed with the city of Spokane illuminate possible future uses for the 134,000-square-foot ware

Work on Airway Heights recreation center progresses

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July 19, 2018

Samantha Peone

The $17.25 million Airway Heights recreation center takes shape at 11405 W. Deno in Airway Heights. The two-story, 45,000-square-foot facility is expected to be completed early next year. Lydig Construction Inc. and ALSC Architects PS, both of Spokane, ar

Realtor ranks rise in the Inland Northwest

Ratio of brokers to home sales is one to four in Spokane, one to two in Coeur d'Alene

July 19, 2018

Samantha Peone

The number of residential real estate agents in the Spokane and Coeur d'Alene markets is rising. Some industry professionals say the Spokane housing market remains healthy but saturated with agents, and others say the Coeur d'Alene market is downright

Strained brew

Aluminum can prices rise, lead times double for No-Li Brewhouse in height of busy season

July 19, 2018

Samantha Peone

Trouble might be bubbling in the brewing industry, on both local and national scales. Since May, prices for aluminum cans have risen 20 percent for No-Li Brewhouse LLC, and the time between ordering and receiving aluminum cans from suppliers have roughly