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Church headquarters here rebuilding on previous site

Seventh-day Adventist offices destroyed by fire west of Spokane in 2008

July 1, 2010

Leone & Keeble Inc., of Spokane, has begun work on an $8.5 million building at 3715 S. Grove Road, just west of Spokane, to house the Seventh-day Adventist's Upper Columbia Conference headquarters. The church's previous headquarters building burned

Final phase of Greenacres sewer install to begin soon

MDM Construction bids $2.3 million for project in city of Spokane Valley

July 1, 2010

Kim Frlan

MDM Construction Inc., of Hayden, Idaho, has submitted an apparent low bid of $2.3 million for the fourth and final phase of a multiyear sewering project in the Greenacres area. The project, which will entail installing 3.8 miles of eight-inch more

Rendering courtesy of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP

WSU launches $35 million building project - Art only

July 1, 2010

Work has started on a $35 million Global Animal Health Building on the Washington State University campus, in Pullman, Wash. Bouten Construction Co., of Spokane, is the construction manager and general contractor on the 62,000-square-foot, three-

Rite Aid store here sports new design

July 1, 2010

Chey Scott

Rite Aid Corp. says its new store at 12222 E. Sprague, in Spokane Valley was designed using the chain's relatively new "Customer World" layout.The 16,000-square-foot store, at the southwest corner of Sprague Avenue and Pines Road, replaced an at

Kalispels develop store, gas stop next to Northern Quest

Project is on part of land where the tribe envisions mixed-use development

July 1, 2010

Kim Crompton

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians is developing a convenience store and gas station on part of a large parcel of land it owns just south of its recently expanded Northern Quest Resort & Casino, in Airway Heights, where it has said it envisions a Inc.,

Lydig lands school work in Kennewick worth $4.4 million

District says renovation project will consolidate administration

July 1, 2010

Mike McLean

The Kennewick School District says it has awarded a $4.4 million contract to Spokane-based Lydig Construction Inc. to renovate a former grocery-store building where the district plans to consolidate its administrative offices.The project will a

Staff photo by Chey Scott; sketch courtesy of City of Spokane

Restoration of Liberty Park ruins eyed

City will contribute funds if community also pays part

July 1, 2010

Chey Scott

Those mysterious, crumbling pillars of basalt visible near Third Avenue and Arthur Street and from Interstate 90 could get a new life, city of Spokane officials say. Known as the Liberty Park Ruins, the 3-acre parcel sits on a bluff just north a

$1.3 million in jobs awarded at NC High School

July 1, 2010

Mike McLean

Spokane Public Schools says it has selected contractors for two North Central High School construction projects that are valued at a combined $1.3 million and are expected to be completed this summer.In one of the projects, the district has of a

First homes rise at Kendall Yards - Art only

July 1, 2010

Liberty Lake-based Greenstone Corp. is erecting the first townhouses in its Kendall Yards development on the north side of the Spokane River Gorge northwest of downtown. The first residents of the planned $500 million, 78-acre mixed-use development

Garco submits $12.3 million bid for sewer-plant upgrades

Job to include installing odor-control structure, grease skimmer, piping

July 1, 2010

Mike McLean

Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, has submitted an apparent low bid of $12.3 million for a contract to construct the first round of projects planned in the $100-million second phase of improvements at the city of Spokane's sewage-treatment says