Mike McLean

Waterfront condominium building to be constructed in Sandpoint

$5 million project will have 13 units near Sand Creek

July 20, 2017

A North Idaho development company says it will break ground in the fall on a $5 million-plus waterfront condominium project in the Sandpoint city center, about 70 miles northeast of Spokane. The project, Sandcreek Lofts at Sandpoint Marina, will include

Old Cheney High School converting to apartments

Historic structure will have 36 units for EWU students

July 20, 2017

Mike McLean

Seattle-based developers are repurposing the old Cheney High School building as rental housing, targeting Eastern Washington University students. The three-story building, at 520 Fourth in Cheney, near the eastern edge of the EWU Campus, will have 36 apa

Costco environmental decision appealed

Planner says finding not likely to be overturned

July 20, 2017

Mike McLean

A resident of the Camelot neighborhood, located across the Newport Highway from the planned Costco site north of Spokane, wants a more thorough environmental review of the project. Tom Cooney, a retired attorney, has appealed the county's findings-ca

Spokane-area home values, sales marching upward

Median price for first half of year reaches $205,000

July 20, 2017

Mike McLean

Home sales here are continuing strong growth both in numbers sold and in median sales prices, says Tom McArthur, a spokesman for the Spokane Association of Realtors. In the first half of this year, 3,530 homes were sold through the association's Multip

Two Spokane Valley factories imminent

Katerra Inc., Progress Rail likely to announce plants

July 6, 2017

Mike McLean

Progress Rail Services, of Albertville, Ala., and Menlo Park, Calif.-based Katerra Inc. might be gearing up to announce soon their plans to construct plants that that could lead to hundreds of living-wage manufacturing jobs in Spokane Valley

Riverstone Village retail store space now fully leased

All 160 acres at Cd'A site either bought or spoken for

July 6, 2017

Mike McLean

There's no space left to lease at the Riverstone Village retail center in Coeur d'Alene, and all of the land in the surrounding 160-acre Riverstone development is spoken for, says a commercial real estate broker involved in many of the recent transact

Express Employment moves North Idaho office

Company takes larger space in Coeur d'Alene

July 6, 2017

Mike McLean

The North Idaho office of staffing recruitment and placement company Express Employment Professionals has moved to Coeur d'Alene from Post Falls. The office, which is a franchise of the Oklahoma City-based company of the same name, now is located in a

Gesa opens Spokane Valley branch

New outlet for credit union occupies former bank site

July 6, 2017

Mike McLean

Richland-based Gesa Credit Union has opened a Spokane Valley branch in the Banner Center retail plaza at 509 N. Sullivan. The branch occupies the old 2,200-square-foot site of a Banner Bank branch, which closed after the Walla Walla-based bank merged wit

Conversion of Ridpath Hotel is underway downtown

First rental units to be finished in October

July 6, 2017

Mike McLean

Prominent Spokane developer Ron Wells says the ownership group he leads has obtained a building permit to convert most of the Ridpath Hotel into downtown workforce apartments, after a protracted effort to consolidate ownership of the Spokane landmark and

Taking 3-D printing to heart

Pediatric cardiologists use patient models to test procedures

July 6, 2017

Mike McLean

Dr. Carl Garabedian and other Spokane pediatric heart physicians are pioneering the use of 3-D printed models to plan and practice complex heart procedures. The physicians, who work at the Providence Center for Congenital Heart Disease clinic at Sacred H