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Office building proposed along South Regal

Regal Partnership LLC, of Spokane, says it plans to seek next month a zoning change that would allow it to build a $5 million, three-story professional office building on a residential site along Regal Street on Spokanes South Hill.The the of...

Yoke’s plans two stores in Tri-Cities

Spokane-based Yokes Washington Foods Inc. plans to build two 55,000-square-foot supermarkets in the Tri-Cities. The stores, which will be Yokes Fresh Markets outlets, will be built in Pasco, at the corner of Burden Road and State Route 68,...

Central Valley school to get major remodel

Central Valley School District plans to begin a $10.5 million renovation of Greenacres Middle School, in the Spokane Valley, next spring.Design work on the project is half done, and the project will go to bid in May or June, says Dave Jackman,...

Office tower project appears all but dead

Two-year-old plans for a new office tower in downtown Spokane appear to be dead in the water following a decision by property owner K. Wendell Reugh to step back from the project, which at one time had an estimated cost of $50 million.I think...

Bridging the Valley project set to progress

The Spokane Regional Transportation Council is getting set to select a manager for the huge proposed Bridging the Valley Transportation project, which has grown in estimated value by $20 million, to $270 million.The government agency is to a on...

Design-build process gains popularity

When Spokane architect Steve Piscitello embarked on his first design-build project last yeara $5.1 million student-housing building at North Idaho Collegehe was unsure how well it would work to have a contractor involved in the design his he it...

City’s centers-and-corridors land-use planning advances

Imagine a brick-paved, tree-lined pedestrian promenade stretching for a block between Holy Family Hospital and the Franklin Park Commons shopping center on Spokanes North Side. Envision also a pedestrian bridge, just west of there, that spans at...

Modular-home factory is booming, plans expansion

RATHDRUMA Stratford Home may be modular, but its not mobile.Well, OK, its mobile twice: once when its wheeling down the production line in Stratford Building Corp.s factory here, then when its delivered in big sections on flat-bed a...

Banner plans business-loan office here

Banner Corp., the Walla Walla, Wash.-based parent of Banner Bank, plans to open a commercial lending center here in January. Banner has leased about 3,500 square feet of office space for the new center on the second floor of the Riverpoint One...

New York tech company opens small office here

A New York-based company that provides front-line sales and customer-support people to small technology companies is opening a Spokane office that will be headed by its CEO and from which it plans to market itself on the West Coast.The company,...

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