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CHAS adds dental clinic to its Spokane Valley urgent care

$1.6 million remodel to be completed this summer

June 7, 2018

Nonprofit health services provider Community Health Association of Spokane, better known as CHAS, is remodeling part of its Urgent Care-Valley location at 1502 N. Vercler to include a new dental clinic. Kelly Halverson, vice president of administrative s

New law sets foundation for taller wood buildings

Two factories will produce strong, sustainable timber products in Spokane area

June 7, 2018

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Senate Bill 5450, signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee earlier this year, goes into effect today, June 7, enabling builders to use certain new timber products to construct bigger buildings than had been permitted previously. The bill specifically directs t

Bouten Construction to build new Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery

Crisis center hopes to open larger facility in late 2020

June 7, 2018

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The Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery has named Spokane-based Bouten Construction Co. as the contractor for the crisis nursery's new 30,000-square-foot facility at 2230 E. Sprague, noting the construction company's past projects with NAC Architecture, the

More women diagnosed with depression

Rate among Spokane females said higher than national average

June 7, 2018

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Women are being diagnosed with major depression at twice the rate of men, and Spokane women are being diagnosed at a rate higher than the national average, according to a recent report. The report released by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, major

Hyundai dealership in downtown Spokane changes hands

Most employees retained from former LHM location

June 7, 2018

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A pair of Canadian automotive industry veterans has acquired the former Larry H. Miller Hyundai Spokane dealership in Spokane Valley and renamed it Spokane Hyundai. Greg Churchill, president, and Craig Fruin, general manager of Spokane Hyundai, at 8801

SRM Development secures $20 million in private capital

Spokane developer planning senior projects in California

June 7, 2018

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SRM Development LLC, a Spokane-based development company, has secured $20 million in capital through a private placement with investors. The developer, which focuses on senior housing, multifamily housing, and commercial buildings, will use SRM Senior Ho

Smart housing project planned in South Perry District

Work on $2 million Blockhouse project could start in early fall

June 7, 2018

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Six businesspeople from a variety of industries are coming together to build a $2 million 'smartâ€ housing development, called Blockhouse, in the South Perry District. Andy Barrett, one of the partners in the Blockhouse collaboration, says the group e

Volunteers of America plans $12 million Hope House in downtown Spokane

Low-income apartments, homeless women's shelter eyed at Linnie's Thai site

June 7, 2018

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Volunteers of America Eastern Washington & Northern Idaho plans to construct a 60-unit low-income apartment building with a shelter for homeless women downtown at 1301 W. Third, the current site of Linnie's Thai Cuisine restaurant, says Fawn Schott, VOA

Permits secured for Gold Reserve project

Site work to clear way for big Venezuelan mine

May 24, 2018

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Gold Reserve Inc., a mining company incorporated in Canada with executive offices in downtown Spokane, has received the permit to begin construction activities at a gold, copper, and silver mining project in southeast Venezuela in conjunction with the Ven

Place LA is off to strong start in blooming economy

Young firm completed 63 projects in 2017, aims for more contracts this year

May 24, 2018

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After more than two decades working in landscape architecture, Joshua Tripp started Place Landscape Architecture LLC here on April Fool's Day in 2016 with just $100 in a business account. Since then, says Tripp, the landscape architecture firm has flour