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The new McKinstry building east of downtown Spokane is a refurbished 1907 structure once used to repair electric trains. It’s now called the SIERR Building at McKinstry Station and is transformed into high tech office space with plenty of historical elements and industrial design. McKinstry plans to offer tours of the building, at 802 E. Spokane Falls Blvd., Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, during their grand opening.
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The new McKinstry building east of downtown Spokane, dating from 1907, has replicas of the original wooden doors where electric trains were rolled in for maintenance. It’s now called the SIERR Building at McKinstry Station.
The view from the rear windows and open deck areas is of the Spokane River. The newly remodeled McKinstry building, called the SIERR at McKinstry Station, sits near Hamilton and Trent and backs up to the river.
The cavernous interior is now filled with freestanding meeting rooms at McKinstry, a nationwide construction and energy firm that remodeled a former train maintenance barn into a high tech office campus.
Office cubicles for McKinstry, a nationwide construction and energy company, fill a wing of the former train car maintenance building at Hamilton and Trent in Spokane. The freshly remodeled building has a grand opening Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011.
A workout room is part of the remodel of the old train maintenance building near Hamilton and Trent east of downtown Spokane. The building houses McKinstry, a large construction and energy firm, which put millions into creating a modern office campus inside the cavernous building.
The new McKinstry building east of downtown Spokane is filled with historical and nostalgic memorabilia from when the building served as a train barn.
Inside the cavernous old building remodeled by the architectural and technical firm McKinstry, freestanding meeting rooms have the latest technology and environmental controls, which is what McKinstry, an major player in facility planning and design, does for other large buildings and campuses.
Workers prepare to hang historical photos that integrated into the decor of the SIERR at McKinstry Station, the whimsically named remodeled train repair building near Hamilton and Trent in Spokane. McKinstry pulled out the stops, and their wallet, to turn the 1907 building into a high tech office space.
At the rear of the main space of the former train barn is a cafeteria facility that faces a wall of windows and a view of the Spokane River at McKinstry, a national firm that rehabbed the former electric train facility near Hamilton and Trent into a high tech office space.
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7:37 p.m. Nov 3
Just a gorgeous building now. Lots of money for an old building. WIhtout millions in grants, etc how many usual owners could afford this much? An old old building rehabbed to the tune of $23 million. Funding is scarce without the government funding. I wonder abou tthe wisdom of doing this when a complete new modern tower could be paid for with the same amunt of money.
No doubt though, It’s a beauty. I hope Spokane visits this landmark often.
9:12 p.m. Nov 3
It’s stunning, though it needs Hermann Miller Aeron Chairs if it wants Engineers and Developers to spend 12 hour days working on projects. The breathable mesh and support makes the day fly by.
$23 million is nothing. The Davenport was given $25 Million in Historical Grants to help restore it.
This building properly wired and with a modern HVAC system with all it’s stylish history can house a dozen start-ups.
If they’re smart they’ll look for industries that can compliment each other and build relationships.
Having McKinstry Construction and Energy firm in there provided this mixed-use approach to collaborative firm interaction I hope becomes a model for the area.
Another building worth restoring and bringing up to such a level of class is across from the North By Northwest Headquarters before the Y and adjacent down from the Arena. There’s plenty of space to turn that brick classic into a hub of start ups.
9:50 a.m. Nov 4
I’ve watching this project taking shape - what a great building! I wish more people had the generosity of spirit to do this. There is a character and a feeling in these buildings that can’t be bought. There is something to be said for a company that undertakes a renovation like this.
There are a couple of buildings in downtown Coeur d’Alene that could use this kind of treatment…would love to see it happen.
8:53 p.m. Nov 4
Great project - not only did McKinstry build local, but they supported local - all of the systems furntiure is from Kimball Office and manufactured nearby in Post Falls, ID.
The 370+ local Kimball Office employees thank McKinstry for their support!
8:02 a.m. Nov 6
Yes, a complete new modern tower could be paid for with the same amount of money but with increased waste. We can reuse what we have instead of tearing down old buildings.
Smaller buildings can be rehabbed in the same way. Recent examples include Mountain Gear’s warehouse in the valley and Rings & Things building new downtown Spokane.
11:10 a.m. Nov 10
Wow, it will be interesting to see if the Spokane area can support a very, very, expensive union contractor from Seattle. Has been tried many times but never worked. Their business is fueled by federal and state tax payer money, political payback to the special interest groups that control our current government. I suppose as long as the dems keep spending our money like water on questionably viable projects (like this one) they should do just fine….. Your tax dollars hard at work building posh gyms for private employers.
8:57 p.m. Nov 10
Thanks everybody for the rundown on the company and off-topic political yammering, but I don’t care about that here.
I drive around Spokane and see relatively new buildings already vacated. I see banks loaning tons of money so local contractors can put up new buildings that’ll house Halloween stores in a few years. Then I finally see a story about this really old structure that’s not being torn down, but instead being used this way. Very nice.