Kevin Blocker

Barker Storage begins work on 10-acre storage facility

Project also includes spaces for boats, RVs

July 16, 2020

A family-owned investment company is developing a storage unit business that also will allocate space for storing boats and recreational vehicles. Barker Storage LLC broke ground last week on its planned $5.5 million self-storage project to be located

Developer rebuilds Spokane Valley retail structure after fire

Rodda Paint in talks to move back to location

July 16, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Dolphin Enterprises LLC, a family-owned business of three generations, has started construction on a building at 6818 E. Sprague, in Spokane Valley, including a replacement structure for a paint store that was destroyed by a fire there in February 2019.

Medcurity nets second investment from West Side

SeaChange puts $500,000 into medical-records startup

July 16, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Medical records-tech company Medcurity Inc. says it has secured a second round of funding this year from a West Side investment firm. The firm, SeaChange Fund, invested $500,000 in Spokane-based Medcurity earlier this month. SeaChange, founded in 2018

Spokane homes sales just off last year's pace in first half of 2020

Median closed price up 10% year-to-date

July 16, 2020

Kevin Blocker

The number of homes sold through the Spokane Association of Realtors' Multiple Listing Service is down 1% through the first six months of this year, compared with first half of 2019. The MLS reports 3,261 single-family homes and condos on less than

StorhÃ¤ug keeps pace with civil engineering

Well-established firm handles many projects

July 16, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Jerry StorhÃ¤ug, cofounder and principal of the Spokane civil engineering company StorhÃ¤ug Engineering Inc., started his own business in 1993 because he wanted fewer managerial duties and wanted to interact more closely with clients. His son, Austin

Restaurateur Jeremy Tangen spins The Red Wheel in East Spokane

Restaurants & Retail

July 16, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Restaurateur Jeremy Tangen's latest endeavor, The Red Wheel Bar and Grill, is also a concept. Every hour, on the hour, an on-duty bartender literally spins a mounted red wheel behind the bar. A different drink is listed in each space on the wheel

Longtime financial advisory firm Vickerman Driscoll merges into Ten Capital

Combined firm has $700M-plus in assets under management

July 16, 2020

Kevin Blocker

The largest financial advisory firm headquartered in Spokane just got considerably bigger. Ten Capital Wealth Advisors LLC has merged into its operations Vickerman & Driscoll Financial Advisors Inc., says Ten Capital CEO Tim Mitrovich.

The Airway Heights Housing Boom

Median prices are going up with demand, remain below South Hill, Valley values

July 16, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Karen O'Donnell, a real estate broker with Coldwell Banker Tomlinson, has worked as a broker in the region since 2002, and has marketed newly constructed homes since 2008. She's claims she's never seen anything in Spokane County that rivals the

McKinstry affiliate agrees to buy U District land

Transaction to be completed later this summer

July 8, 2020

Kevin Blocker

A McKinstry Co. subsidiary has agreed to acquire land for continued development of Spokane's University District. Avista Development Inc., the development arm of Spokane-based power company Avista Corp., plans to sell a 1.5-acre parcel along the nort

Avista develops wildfire resiliency plan

Plan calls for managing vegetation, learning to work with firefighters

July 2, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Spokane-based energy company Avista Corp. is taking additional steps to improve its ability to reduce the risk of wildfires in areas the company serves. The company has designed what it's calling a Wildfire Resiliency Plan, a document crafted to