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Journal names its 2022 class of Business Icons

In-person event scheduled for May 4

March 30, 2022

The Journal of Business has selected its 2022 class of Business Icons, who will the honored at an in-person event on May 4.

Kootenai heart center expands

$37.3 million addition expected to be complete in the summer of 2023

March 24, 2022

Linn Parish

Work is underway on a $37.3 million expansion at Kootenai Health's primary hospital campus in Coeur d'Alene. The three-story, 21,000-square-foot addition will house an expansion of the hospital's heart center, which will grow to 13 operating rooms

Jubilant HollisterStier expansion moves ahead

Pharmaceutical maker expects to increase its facility's capacity by 50%

March 24, 2022

Linn Parish

Pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging company Jubilant HollisterStier has started a $92 million expansion of its plant in east Spokane. Lydig Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, is the general contractor on the project, which involves adding

Selkirk Pharma completes its first plant

Biotech company plans two more structures

March 24, 2022

Karina Elias

Construction on a 147,700-square- foot manufacturing facility on the West Plains for Spokane-based biotech startup Selkirk Pharma Inc. is nearly complete, and operations are expected to begin there by early next year. Bouten Construction Co. is the

Retirement communities rise in North Spokane, Valley

Three large projects to be finished by early 2023

March 24, 2022

Virginia Thomas

Three large senior-living projects valued at a combined $195.3 million are progressing in the Spokane area. In North Spokane, the Rockwood at Whitworth retirement community project is entering its second phase. Rockwood Retirement Communities is

The Nest takes form in Coeur d'Alene

$15 million project to be finished late this year

March 24, 2022

Linn Parish

Structural framing started at the beginning of March at the high-end townhome development known as The Nest On Lake Side, in downtown Coeur d'Alene. Measom Holdings LLC, a Houston-based development company, is developing the five-unit, $15 million

Foundations in place at Liberty Lake town center

Estimated construction value range is $50M-$70M

March 24, 2022

Erica Bullock

In Liberty Lake's River District, Greenstone Corp., a Liberty Lake-based development company, is constructing a mixed-use town center called the NoLL. The full development is estimated to cost between $50 million and $75 million, says Jim Frank,

Greenstone readies for infrastructure at Mead Works

Development will model Kendall Yards, but on a larger scale

March 24, 2022

Erica Bullock

Liberty Lake-based development company Greenstone Corp. is preparing for site work to begin at the Mead Works development, in north Spokane County. Mead Works is a neighborhood development planned for more than 400 acres of land next to the Costco

Busy building season forecast in Coeur d'Alene's Atlas District

Luxury homes, apartment development in works at former site of sawmill

March 24, 2022

Mike McLean

Construction is underway on the initial phase of residential developments in the core of the Atlas District urban renewal area on the north bank of the Spokane River in west Coeur d'Alene. The city has projected the developments planned and underway

Post Falls veterans home to be completed in fall

$54M facility to have 64 private rooms

March 24, 2022

Mike McLean

Construction of a long-planned North Idaho Veterans Home, in Post Falls, is expected to be completed in the fall, says Tracy Schaner, Idaho Division of Veterans Services deputy chief administrator, who's overseeing the project. The 83,400-square foot