A satirical skit in the cable-television comedy "Portlandia" has a couple in a restaurant who, after asking a long series of questions about the chicken the eatery serves, leaves to visit the farm at which the chicken was raised, wanting to see the
Housing Washington, an annual statewide conference on affordable housing, will be held Sept. 26-28 at the Spokane Convention Center.Jama Hawk, manager of administrative services for the Washington State Housing Finance Commission, says the is to
Kop Construction Co., of Spokane, has won a $1.2 million contract to construct senior housing in Omak, Wash.The housing complex, which is to be named Pine Meadows Senior Housing, will include 10 residential units, nine of which will be for says
A Spokane man has developed an apartment building near Gonzaga University that he set up as a sustainably designed coed housing cooperative targeted at GU students.The developer, Buzz Price, says the building, which he has named The Gee with the
Kearsley Construction Inc., of Spokane, is expected to start work this month on an estimated $789,000 renovation of women's athletic locker rooms and team meeting areas on Eastern Washington University's Cheney campus. Jim Moeller, an EWU senior
Walker Construction Inc., of Spokane, has won a $3.5 million contract to build an expansion of Whitworth University's dining hall, inside the Hixson Union Building.The construction is scheduled to start this week to add nearly 14,000 square feet
Site work for Washington State University's planned $78 million Biomedical and Health Sciences Building on the Riverpoint Campus is expected to start this month.Bob Askins, of Graham Construction & Management Inc., the general contractor and on
Walker Construction Inc., of Spokane, has started work on an $11.6 million job to build a Coeur d'Alene Tribe outpatient clinic in North Idaho.Tom Hansen, Walker Construction co-owner and project manager, says the company broke ground in on the
An advisory board for a Spokane tax-increment financing district called the West Quadrant hopes to find ways to leverage the roughly $200,000 the district has collected so far and recommend initial revitalization projects in which the city could of
Spokane businessman Pete Rayner says a plan this year to launch the long-envisioned Beacon Hill subdivision in northeast Spokane is stalled until he and the city resolve the issue of who pays for a water system.Rayner asserts the city promised a