Mike McLean

Charity restaurant buys building to grow services

Center Pointe vacates facility, merges with Arc

August 28, 2014

Spokane nonprofit Women & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen has bought a new home, where it will expand its facility and serve more people, says Sherry Harbaugh, president of the organization. WCFR recently acquired the two-story, 20,100-s

Central Valley School District buys former Yoke's building

Site to play role in capital facilities bond measure

August 28, 2014

Mike McLean

The Central Valley School District has bought the former Yoke's supermarket site at 16 N. Progress Road for $2.4 million and plans to use the building as the cornerstone for a major capital facilities bond measure likely to go before voters in February,

NAC|Architecture merges with LA-area firm

Prominent design concern makes leadership changes

August 28, 2014

Mike McLean

Spokane-based NAC|Architecture says it has merged with Osborn Architects, a smaller Southern California design firm. The combined firm currently is operating under the NAC name, but is investigating whether to rebrand the firm with a new name and logo, s

Apartment project gets under way in Lake City

$5.4 million complex to have 60 living units

August 28, 2014

Mike McLean

Whitewater Creek Inc., of Hayden, has started work on a 60-unit apartment complex in north Coeur d'Alene. Application information for building permits recently issued by the city of Coeur d'Alene put the total construction value for the Hudson Park F

David's Pizza work resumes at Wonder Bread site

Liquor license application signals potential reopening

August 28, 2014

Mike McLean

More than three years after moving out of the University District, Spokane restaurateur Mark Starr appears to be readying to reopen a David's Pizza restaurant at a larger location north of downtown.

Logan group's plans for Hamilton Street

Proposed land-use code would encourage multistory developments

August 28, 2014

Mike McLean

The city of Spokane is airing proposed new land use regulations designed to encourage a pedestrian-friendly, higher-density mix of residential and commercial uses within a stretch of the Hamilton Street corridor near Gonzaga University. The area affected

Legacy Ridge addition planned in Liberty Lake

Subdivision would include 281 homes

August 28, 2014

Mike McLean

A Vancouver, Wash.-based real estate investment group says it plans to develop up to 281 residential lots in a subdivision in the western part of the Legacy Ridge development. The proposed Legacy Ridge West subdivision would be the largest single subdivi

Manufacturing facility construction takes off - Art only

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August 14, 2014

Mike McLean

Trindera Engineering expands downtown office

Cd'A-based concern's staff has grown by half

August 14, 2014

Mike McLean

Coeur d'Alene-based Trindera Engineering Inc. has doubled the size of its downtown Spokane office, says Katie Fitzpatrick, a spokeswoman for the company. Trindera now occupies all 6,000 square feet of floor space in the two-story structure at 221 W. Ma

A sewing resurgence

Industry activity indicates sales, employment growth

August 14, 2014

Mike McLean

After years of contraction in the sewing manufacturing industry, some remaining sewing manufacturers here are seeing a resurgence in sales and employment growth, and others are looking at setting up operations in the Inland Northwest, some industry source