Mike McLean

Whitworth builds $8 million facility for fitness programs

Larger recreation center to ease scheduling woes for intramural activities

September 27, 2012

Whitworth University has started work on a new 32,000-square-foot student fitness and recreation center.The building, which will be open to all Whitworth students, faculty, and staff, is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2013, says Andrea

SHBA's Festival of Homes prepares to start this weekend

Free scattered-site event will showcase 32 houses erected by 18 contractors

September 27, 2012

Mike McLean

The Spokane Home Builders Association's eighth annual Fall Festival of Homes will be held over the next two three-day weekends.The Fall Festival will feature 32 homes by 18 Spokane-area builders, says Joel White, SHBA's executive officer. The of

North Idaho school districts prep voter-approved works

Three funding measures to come to $38.7 million, mostly for construction

September 27, 2012

Mike McLean

Funding measures totaling $38.7 million that were approved by voters in three Kootenai County school districts last month mostly will go toward construction projects, the districts say.The Coeur d'Alene schools bond is by far the largest at by a

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175 million-plus in construction planned at Spokane Public Schools

Work at Finch, Hutton next in queue; Mullan, NC plans on fast track

September 27, 2012

Mike McLean

Spokane Public Schools is wrapping up the design phase for the upcoming Finch Elementary restoration and modernization project, and the district expects to approve a design team next month for a planned Hutton Elementary modernization project, says

Staples reduces floor size in its Coeur d'Alene outlet

$600,000 remodel part of office-supply chain's smaller-store strategy

September 27, 2012

Mike McLean

Staples Inc., the Framingham, Mass.-based office-supply retail chain, says a $600,000 remodel project currently under way at its Coeur d'Alene outlet will reduce the store's size by more than a third.The store will be reduced to 15,500 square of

144-unit Canyon Pointe Apartments project revisited in west Spokane

$9.6 million complex similar in scope to one mulled, shelved in '07

September 27, 2012

Mike McLean

A longtime Spokane Valley developer and contractor is dusting off plans for a 144-unit apartment complex on Sunset Hill, near Indian Canyon Golf Course, that have been on hold for nearly five years, preliminary documents on file with the city to be

Two Unicep Packaging executives buy company

Purchase culminates packaging concern's succession strategy

September 27, 2012

Mike McLean

Two Unicep Packaging Inc. executives, Marcus Anderson and Clint Marshall, have bought the assets of the Sandpoint, Idaho-based contract packaging company from its founder John Snedden, and now are operating it as Unicep Packaging LLC, the company a

Peppertree hotel developers toss in towel on long-stalled project

Hoteliers list long-stalled project site on Division for sale for $2.5 million

September 27, 2012

Mike McLean

Rita and John Santillanes, owners of the highly visible quarter-block lot at the northwest corner of Division Street and Third Avenue where a hotel construction project has been frozen in its initial stage for nearly four years, have decided to up

Silverwood Theme Park extends season with Scarywood

Scarywood, community days keep attendance on the rise

September 27, 2012

Mike McLean

Silverwood Theme Park's season-extending strategies, which include community promotions in September and converting the park to a spooky attraction in October, help the park continue to set new attendance records, says Nancy DiGiammarco, marketing

Software cuts energy use by city's computer system

Spokane reports $14,000 in savings during first year of using Verdiem product

September 13, 2012

Mike McLean

A recent review of an energy-efficiency system the city of Spokane bought and installed on its network-connected desktop computers has found that the system saves the city more than $14,000 in energy costs annually. That savings, coupled with by