Legislative request likely, as is local ballot measure
June 16, 2016
The Spokane Public Facilities District will ask the state Legislature again next year for part of the estimated $41 million needed to finance a proposed sports field house, called the Sportsplex, north of the Spokane River, PFD chairman Larry Soehren says
Bill Savitz spent most of his 40-year career at Garco Building Systems, working for and eventually co-owning the West Plains pre-engineered building maker. Now, the 59-year-old veteran of industry is building something new: a business accelerator.
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Metal detectors, new suite among eyed improvements
June 2, 2016
Spokane Public Facilities District officials say they are shifting their focus, which in recent years has been on projects at the Spokane Convention Center, to Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena.
'We've always got an ongoing list of projects requiring r
The Spokane Transit Authority's downtown bus plaza is in the midst of a two-phase remodeling project that began in May and is expected to be completed in the summer of 2017.
The project is estimated to cost almost $5 million, including design, enginee
The city of Spokane is in the midst of a busy construction season, working to complete street projects totaling about $8.7 million.
City spokeswoman Julie Happy says that starting in mid-June, a section of 37th Avenue from Regal Street to Custer Stree
The Idaho Transportation Department recently has awarded contracts totaling $12.4 million for highway projects now in their early construction stages in North Idaho, says Marvin Fenn, the department's Coeur d'Alene-based District 1 engineering manager
Integrus Architecture PS, of Spokane, is keeping a strong focus on public works projects, particularly those for higher education facilities. The firm is looking to build on its design expertise even as it faces a shortage of skilled architects to add to
Spokane-based Northwest Farm Credit Services has reported first-quarter earnings of $58.4 million, down 7 percent from $63.1 million for the 2015 first quarter.
The Spokane-based agricultural lending cooperative attributed the decrease to sizable loan r
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration sent three astronauts to Fairchild Air Force Base last month to review the U.S Air Force's Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape Water Survival Course, known as SERE.
A recent article in the Fairch
The Spokane Transit Authority's board of directors recently approved a change in design plans for the planned West Plains Transit Center project that has reduced its projected cost.
The project originally was anticipated to have a total cost of $16.2