Following the opening of its $79 million Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences Building on the Riverpoint Campus east of downtown late last year, Washington State University Spokane has started its next master-plan update.
The focus of the master plan
The city of Spokane is seeking proposals from engineering firms for design and construction management of an estimated $80 million to $100 million upgrade at the city's Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility sewage-treatment plant.
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Sportsman's Warehouse, the Utah-based national outdoor recreation and sporting goods chain, plans to re-enter the Spokane market with a new store to be located at a long-dormant construction site on the North Side.
The company has filed a predevelopmen
Dru Hieber, who represents the third generation of her family to own the Bennett Block downtown, says Hieber Properties Inc., is renovating the historic property at the northeast corner Main Avenue and Howard Street with the goal of restoring its vitality
Financial institutions have reduced greatly the amount of repossessed real estate on their books following the Great Recession.
Scott Southwick, chief credit officer for Spokane-based Inland Northwest Bank, says nonperforming assets, which include reposs
Geothermal heating and cooling systems are gaining acceptance in residential construction here, although most adopters of the heat-transfer technology are in the upscale custom home market.
Jeff Fountain, a principal at Copeland Architecture & Constructi
Landscape architect Len Zickler, a principal in the Spokane office of Tacoma-based AHBL Inc., says the company is seeing more requests to design environmentally friendly infrastructure to manage stormwater drainage.
He expects this approach, called low-
Kiemle & Hagood Co. says it and a facility-services subsidiary it operates have been using greener building management and maintenance practices they implemented fully three years ago to help building owners and tenants achieve sizable energy savings.
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Living Water Lawn & Tree Care Service, of Spokane, now has an affiliate, Living Water Landscape Services.
The new company will be located in a 3,600-square-foot building on 2.7 acres of land at 8227 N. Regal. Living Water founders Michael and Lisa Fairbu
Spokane-based J.W. Elmer Construction Co. recently began renovating a 5,600-square-foot commercial space on the South Hill, where AAA of Spokane plans to relocate its downtown office.
The travel membership organization will be leasing the building at 131