After a three-year wait, Nevada-Lidgerwood neighbors now have bike paths along Addison.
Bike-only lanes were painted on both sides of the street from Bridgeport to Dalke last week.
"We are elated," said Al French, president of the Nevada-Lidgerwood Neighborhood Council.
Developer Tom Hagen has recently opened the first phase of Aloha Pines manufactured home park near Elk.
When completed, the 15-acre project will include 70 homes. Twenty-two sites are available and four model homes are open for touring.
The community includes a swimming pool, common area with lawns and a picnic area, and 8,000-square-foot lots.
Hagen, who lives in Hawaii, said the development is aimed at young families and empty-nesters.
Cathay Inn owners are a step closer to beginning construction on their new restaurant on Division.
Greg Smith, city of Spokane hearing examiner, approved a zone change for three lots along Division Street between Providence and Kiernan avenues.
The lots were changed from multi-family residential site, to limited community business zone to allow the bigger restaurant and expanded parking.
1. Cameron, 6, helps out his mom and dad, Erin and Craig Stephens, in Paul Hall at Holy Trinity Church as volunteers prepare bags for the Our Place center. Photo by Roger Ames/The Spokesman-Review
2. Volunteers spend part of Saturday morning in Paul Hall at First Trinity Church packing cans and other dry goods into bags to be distributed to needy families in time for Thanksgiving. Photo by Roger Ames/The Spokesman-Review
Wide-open fields interrupted by only an occasional house or barn sprawl across Five Mile Prairie.
Despite the space, there's no place to organize a game of baseball, or to kick a soccer ball with a team, or to hold a neighborhood picnic.
Gene Komarov secures the cement molding for what will be the new Slavic Baptist Church of Five Mile Prairie. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review
Buster Heitman will unveil new plans for the 52 acres he owns between Nine Mile Road and the North Side landfill at a community meeting Dec. 1.
The new plans for Riverside Village include a 52-bed Alzheimer patient care and treatment facility.
There's really no nice way to say it: The neighborhood stinks.
Well, sometimes. And it doesn't have anything to do with the people who live there.
A block of houses on Cedar Road, between Francis and Decatur avenues, is periodically plagued by a sewage stench so severe it forces the neighbors indoors. And even then, they have to make sure their doors and windows are closed or the aroma will waft in after them.
As commercial and residential development grows on the North Side, so do the fast food outlets.
New outlets for Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers and Jack In The Box are opening soon.
Jack In The Box is under construction by Wayneco near the new La-Z-Boy Gallery at Division Street and Hawthorne Road. It is scheduled to open in January.
Tammy Arndt and Lou Dolan, and Marge Arndt, Tammy's mother, restored the Corbin Park Queen Anne house they call Waverly Place Bed and Breakfast. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review
Ken Rawson has been playing heavy metal music loud to get back at the neighbors who, he says, have made his life miserable. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review
The Bemiss Neighborhood Council is hoping to transform the cleaned-up Spokane Junkyard into a community park.
"It looks extremely realistic," said Marlene Stewart, with the Bemiss Neighborhood Council.
The 16-acre site was used for almost 50 years to store cars, heavy equipment, appliances, batteries and electrical transformers.
From left, Olyvia Williams, 7, Danelle Jones, 7, Tyler Cooley, 9, Cassie Williams, 11, and Taureen Jones, 10, play in a vacant lot at the corner of Longfellow and Florida that Hillyard neighbors hope to turn into a park. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review
Spokane residents who can swing a monthly house payment, but can't save enough money for a down payment, are invited to learn more about HomeStarts, a program designed to help first-time home buyers.
Home buyers work in teams to build their own homes, earning as much as $25,000 toward the down payment.
The program was developed by Northwest Regional Facilitators of Spokane.
A city-side housing development on Five Mile Prairie was given the go-ahead this week, while three developments on the county side were put on hold.
Summerhill, a 183-home planned-unit development on 51 acres, was approved with conditions by city hearing examiner Greg Smith.
In the county, a determination of significance was issued for Greg Yost's Willow Run, Prairie Breeze and Granger Estates developments.
Plans for the Northpointe Sports Complex inched forward Monday when the City Council approved a different approach to building the North Side softball facility.
In the rarely used design-build process, the city comes up with project requirements, like the number of softball fields, parking spaces or volleyball courts. In this case, there are 65 pages detailing what should be included in the facility.
Deborah Wittwer, left, teaches jump rope to Tierra Cruse and Kristen Stolz, both 10, who are working on a routine to music from the movie "Men in Black." Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review
Groundbreaking will be held Friday for a dramatically scaled-back version of Hawthorne Court.
Originally planned as three stories with 96 apartments, the project has been reduced to 21 courtyard homes.
The one-story homes with attached garages will be built in a U-shape around a landscaped courtyard.
Northwood Meadows residents are appealing approval of a zone change that will allow an 82-unit retirement home in their residential neighborhood.
Neighbors say they were misled into believing homes similar to theirs would be built on the four acres between Farwell and Mead Roads.
The land was originally zoned for 3.5 houses per acre. Spokane County Hearing Examiner Michael Dempsey approved rezoning it to 22 units per acre.
A quiet cul-de-sac of 20-year-old homes backing onto Sun Dance Golf Course has turned into a temporary truck route, despite neighborhood protests.
Kendick Avenue, a cul-de-sac for two decades, was changed to a through road recently to provide access to new homes in Parkside on the Green, a Douglass Development.
Construction of the new Home Depot hit a snag last week when Spokane Hearing Examiner Greg Smith sent the project back for more traffic studies.
The city approved the project near the Division Street Y despite a potential 17-minute wait to exit the parking lot on Saturdays.
The approval included 14 mitigating measures, most of them traffic-related.
Bob Kingsley was recently sideswiped, knocked off his bike while riding on Indian Trail Road.
It was an accident Kingsley predicted a year ago when the city restriped traffic lanes on the busy road, creating four lanes where there had been two. There are no bike lanes or paths.
"The new lanes are too narrow to allow cars and bikes to share the road," said Kingsley. "How many small incidents will be ignored before this risk is addressed?"
"I hope to build community support for the sheriff's department," says Det. Earl Howerton, the first full-time SCOPE officer for the North Side. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review
Michaels Art and Crafts is finalizing plans to open a North Side store on Division Street.
A spokeswoman in the real estate department at Michaels, based in Dallas, said more details should be available at the end of the year.
Michaels opened near Trent Avenue in 1994, after the company bought the Treasure House chain of craft stores.
FROM FOR THE RECORD (Friday, October 31, 1997):
Correction
Headline wrong: Chief Garry Park neighbors who attended a meeting Tuesday about the city's fleet maintenance center did not oppose the project. A headline in Thursday's North Side Voice incorrectly stated the neighborhood's reaction to the plan.
