Mike McLean

Advanced Input adds to Cd'A plant

Company says $3 million addition will serve future 'opportunities for growth'

September 3, 2009

Work is starting on a 54,000-square-foot, $3.3 million expansion at Advanced Input Systems' facility in Coeur d'Alene, according to building permit documents show.Al Yost, president of AIS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bellevue, Wash.-based says

WinCo buys Cd'A parcel for new store

Discount grocery chain's outlet there would be its third to open in this area

September 3, 2009

Mike McLean

Boise-based discount grocery chain WinCo Foods LLC has bought 9 acres of vacant land in Coeur d'Alene and plans to build its third Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-area supermarket there, says the commercial real estate company that handled the real estate &

Spokane resident develops museum software for Mobius

Donated interface system senses visitors' preferences for customized experience

August 20, 2009

Mike McLean

MobiusLab, a preview of the planned Mobius Science Center that's on exhibition at the NorthTown Mall, features a personalized touch-screen computer interface designed by a Spokane resident to bring exhibits to life in the minds of young the called

Real Estate Roundup

August 20, 2009

Mike McLean

The Spokane Valley franchise of Other Mothers Inc., an Albuquerque, N.M.-based concern that sells new and used women's, children's, and maternity clothes and children's furniture, has leased 3,300 square feet of space at 2727 S. Mount Vernon for a

Bouten starts $9.5 million veterans cemetery project

First phase of facility near Medical Lake to be done by next Memorial Day

August 20, 2009

Mike McLean

Bouten Construction Co., of Spokane, has started work on the $9.5 million first phase of the Washington State Veterans Cemetery-Medical Lake, says Richard Cesler, the cemetery's director.The cemetery, which is slated to open next Memorial Day, A

Plan center acquires building near fairgrounds, plans move

August 20, 2009

Mike McLean

The Spokane Regional Plan Center has bought a 27,000-square-foot building near the Spokane County Fair & Expo Center for $1.5 million and plans to move there within about the next year, says Rita Hildenbrand, the center's director.The nonprofit

Outreach Services to move to larger space downtown

Hospital billing company leases 9,400 square feet in Holley Mason Building

August 20, 2009

Mike McLean

Seattle-based Pacific Medicaid Services Inc., which does business here as Outreach Services, says it has leased 9,400 square feet of office space on the fourth floor of the Holley Mason Building, at 157 S. Howard, and plans to move most of its on

Rendering courtesy of NAC/Architecture Inc.

Levernier wins $10.4 million hospital job

Work includes remodeling, expanding Leavenworth's Cascade Medical Center

August 20, 2009

Mike McLean

Levernier Construction Inc., of Spokane, says it has landed a $10.4 million contract to remodel and expand Cascade Medical Center, in Leavenworth, Wash.Joe Levernier, president of Levernier Construction, says the work will be done in two phases.

District picks design firms for big jobs

NAC, Madsen Mitchell, ALSC, Bernardo Wills named for school work

August 20, 2009

Mike McLean

Spokane Public Schools has named four Spokane architectural firms to design projects with a combined value exceeding $139 million.The district picked NAC/Architecture Inc. to design the Ferris High School modernization, which is expected to to

Rendering courtesy Madsen Mitchell Evenson & Conrad PLLC

T.W. Clark wins $19.5 million in projects

Projects include building Kennewick school, bus facility in Walla Walla

August 20, 2009

Mike McLean

T.W. Clark Construction LLC, of Spokane, says it started work recently on three out-of-town construction projects, plans to begin constructing a housing project here in October, and expects to complete a housing project in Colville in December. The