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Mike McLean

Mike McLean

Deputy Editor Mike McLean has worked his entire journalism career in the Inland Northwest. Mike, who also lives to reel in fish and crank up music, has worked for the Journal since 2006.

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Super Oval promoter abruptly cancels season

Road course, drag strip unaffected by closure
May 10, 2018
Mike McLean
A few weeks after expressing optimism that he might turn a profit this year, the promoter of the half-mile oval racetrack at Spokane County Raceway has raised the black flag on the season. On April 30, Rick Nelson, owner of Spokane Super Oval LLC, anno
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State launches online retirement marketplace

Program intends to increase access to savings boost plan
April 26, 2018
Mike McLean
Since the launch of the Washington Retirement Marketplace last month, the nation's first state-verified online marketplace for low-cost retirement plans, its director, Carolyn McKinnon, says the program is receiving an encouraging number of calls and we
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Amazon of a project is in the works in Spokane area

Not HQ2, but proposal near airport still big by any standard
April 12, 2018
Mike McLean
The Spokane County Planning Department is reviewing conceptual plans for a massive distribution facility to be constructed near Spokane International Airport. While the name of the company that will operate the facility is conspicuously absent from the p
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—Mike McLean

Industrial developments gear up in Valley

Work starts on one big factory, is planned on another
March 29, 2018
Mike McLean
Efforts to fast-track infrastructure improvements and the construction permitting process in the 800-acre Barker-Euclid industrial area in northeast Spokane Valley have helped attract economic development there. Menlo Park, Calif.-based design-build cont
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—Kootenai Health

Kootenai Health launches master plan's third phase

$45 million second phase to be completed in summer
March 29, 2018
Mike McLean
Coeur d'Alene-based health network Kootenai Health has started work on the $12 million third phase of construction and expects to complete its $45 million second phase this summer at its main hospital campus, at 2003 Kootenai Health Way, near the northw
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—Bernardo|Wills Architects PS

Two South Hill retail centers approach launch

Planning, site work underway at Commons on Regal, Radio Tower Village developments
March 29, 2018
Mike McLean
Planning and permitting activities are continuing for two long-envisioned commercial centers on the upper South Hill. QueenB Radio Inc. is planning a center recently renamed Radio Tower Village on 17 acres of land known as the KXLY site on the west side
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—Greenstone Corp.

Greenstone plans podium project at Kendall Yards

$50 million development to include two mixed-use structures, parking garage
March 29, 2018
Mike McLean
Greenstone Corp., the Liberty Lake-based real estate development company, has started the permitting process for a $50 million phase of construction in Kendall Yards urban village, on the north bluff of the Spokane River gorge northwest of downtown Spokan
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—Mike McLean

2018 is shaping up as strong construction year

Projects in early planning stage ahead of 2017 pace
March 29, 2018
Mike McLean
Coming off a record year for construction values for projects permitted throughout Spokane County in 2017, ongoing and planned projects are pointing toward another strong construction year in 2018. Building permit values for Spokane County and the cities
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Inland Imaging to merge with Tri-Cities practice

Practice to have nearly 90 radiologists
March 27, 2018
Mike McLean
Longtime Spokane-based radiology practice Inland Imaging PS and Tri-Cities, Wash.-based Columbia Basin Imaging PC, have agreed to merge practices, says Inland Imaging CEO Steve Duvoisin. The merger will be effective next fall, and the larger practice t
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—St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute

St. Luke's starts working in high school athletics

Rehab institute contracts with Rogers, Shadle, NC
March 1, 2018
Mike McLean
Spokane-based St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute has begun providing athletic training services to North Central, Rogers, and Shadle Park high schools. Jan Collins, who manages the athletic trainer program for St. Luke's, says it's able to expand
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