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Jimmy John’s anchor for new retail center

January 15, 2010 in Business on Page A14 A sandwich shop will soon emerge from the white plastic cocoon enveloping the northeast corner of Ruby Street and Mission Avenue. Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches will be the main tenant …

North Side spinal clinic to offer range of services

January 8, 2010 in Business on Page A14 Spine Team Spokane is putting up a 10,000-square-foot north Spokane clinic at 410 E. Holland, just east of the Division Street Y. The group already has a Spokane Valley location. …

Freedom Truck to inhabit larger, consolidated facility

December 18, 2009 in Business on Page A11 Freedom Truck Centers Inc. will consolidate its three Spokane operations into a $7 million sales and maintenance center on the West Plains when construction ends in May, owner Ken Cook …

Browne’s Addition apartment owners weigh shift to condos

December 11, 2009 in Business on Page A14 Are rentals, the residential lifeblood of much of Browne’s Addition, facing an uncertain future? Daren Kelly, who with his wife Lisa owns five rental buildings there, just finished a million-dollar …

Tomato Street restaurant adding lobby, office space

December 4, 2009 in Business on Page A16 Tomato Street will be bigger and fresher with the completion early next month of expansion and renovation work under way at the restaurant at 6220 N. Division St., General Manager …

New therapy facility to offer indoor pool

November 27, 2009 in Business on Page A10 The next swimming pool to open in Spokane Valley will be indoors. It’s the heated therapy pool being completed inside the new office building of Youthful Horizons Physical Therapy at …

Community center expansion expected to house more services

November 20, 2009 in Business on Page A12 Northeast Community Center officials will break ground Monday on a $3.7 million project that will nearly double the size of its building at 4001 N. Cook in Spokane. Director Jean … 1

Peirone’s building new digs

November 13, 2009 in Business on Page A16 By next spring, Peirone Produce Co. food handlers will be sorting eggs, lettuce and other food items at a new, 70,000-square-foot warehouse and operations center on the West Plains. Pronounced …

Shakey’s back on firm footing

October 23, 2009 in Business on Page A12 Longtime Spokane residents will remember Shakey’s Pizza. Two of the restaurants operated here for years, closing in the early 1980s. Now Shakey’s is back, with a modern look but also …

Renovators turn Helena into the Pearl on Adams

October 16, 2009 in Business on Page A12 The Spokane Housing Authority’s long transformation of the former Helena Apartments is nearing completion. The building’s old name, associated with a dark moment in downtown Spokane history, has been scrubbed … 3

Carnegie library will be hotel company’s headquarters

October 9, 2009 in Business on Page A10 Magnuson Hotels will move into its new Spokane headquarters in the former Carnegie library at 525 E. Mission Ave. today. The company, which had offices in the Northpointe Office Center, …

Modern apartment units rising in Peaceful Valley

October 2, 2009 in Business on Page A12 Spokane architect Chris Olson wasn’t afraid to try something different with his first residential apartment building. A principal with the Spokane firm nystrom olson collins, he’s a month from finishing …

ILF Media relocates to newly refurbished digs

September 11, 2009 in Business on Page A8 ILF Media has moved into the former Spokane Art School building after investing more than $1.5 million in its purchase and renovation. The company, founded nine years ago in the …

New child care center was built kid-friendly

September 4, 2009 in Business on Page A12 From extra padding under the carpets to child-size sinks and toilets, Pacific Park Children’s Center is built to meet the needs of kids. The 6,200-square-foot child care center recently opened …

New paintball club opens in north Spokane

August 28, 2009 in Business on Page A10 The area’s paintball crowd should be pumped over the recent opening of Spokane Paintball Club in a remodeled building on the city’s North Side. The business opened this month in …

Spokane Valley hotel on the rise

August 21, 2009 in Business on Page A8 Workers have finished about half the construction of the Spokane Valley Hampton Inn & Suites, just east of the Spokane Valley Mall, at 16418 E. Indiana Ave. The project should …

Fitness comes to the mall

August 14, 2009 in Business on Page A10 Brooke Holloman is the owner and proprietor of Chrome Personal Training Center, in Spokane’s NorthTown Mall. The 3,000-square-foot center has been operating about three weeks and will have a grand …

New Plato’s Closet coming

August 7, 2009 in Business on Page A12 The opening of a new Plato’s Closet can be a conspicuous affair. Just look for the throng of girls and young women waiting to get in. Valerie Rhoads has seen …

Top Notch Café fixed up, nearly ready

July 17, 2009 in Business on Page A12 The landmark Top Notch Café in Spokane will reopen next month with its bird’s-eye maple woodwork restored, its art deco exterior repainted to the original black and white, and the …

Mead church taking shape

July 10, 2009 in Business on Page A14 After seeing their last church go up in smoke – by design – Mead United Methodist Church members are watching their next building become reality. The $465,000 project is a …

Groundwork under way for South Hill office complex

June 11, 2009 in Business Silvey Construction and a partner group of investors are working through ground preparation on the South Hill’s next large office complex, at the corner of East 29th and Martin.

New Inland Power and Light building to feature alternative energy generation

June 5, 2009 in Business on Page A12 Inland Power and Light Co. is putting power and light into its new West Plains headquarters. Monday, outside the 26,000- square-foot wood and brick building on West Hallett Road, workers …

Inland Power sending juice to new headquarters

June 4, 2009 in Business Inland Power & Light Co. is putting power and light into its new West Plains headquarters. 1

CdA office building will feature lake view

May 29, 2009 in Business on Page A10 The profile of downtown Coeur d’Alene keeps rising, literally. A six-story office building will be built at Seventh Street and Sherman Avenue, next to one of the two new condo …

Church-turned-events venue plans dedication, open house

April 24, 2009 in Business on Page A8 As work is completed on a remodel of the Lincoln Center event venue in Spokane, owners and brothers Richard and Chris Heftel are preparing to celebrate with a public dedication, …

Here’s the Dirt: Y Building, Ridpath floors on auction block

April 3, 2009 in Business on Page A12 The top two floors of the former Ridpath Hotel, once the home of one of Spokane’s hot spots – Ankeny’s – are on the block in a national silent auction …

Here’s the Dirt: Downtown apartments to open soon

March 27, 2009 in Business on Page A16 Years in the works, one of downtown Spokane’s most ambitious commercial-residential projects is a few months from opening its doors. The 68-unit Madison Apartments should start leasing in mid-May, said … 1

Here’s the Dirt: Grapetree Village expanding

March 20, 2009 in Business on Page A12 Architect Glen Cloninger has begun construction on another phase of the Grapetree Village development on East 29th Avenue in Spokane. The 24,000-square-foot expansion is a continuation of the original, slightly …

Here’s the Dirt: Grapetree Village expanding

March 19, 2009 Architect Glen Cloninger has begun construction on another phase of the Grapetree Village development on East 29th Avenue in Spokane.

Refurbished motor court offers low-cost, downsized housing

March 6, 2009 in Business on Page A12 Wells & Co. will reintroduce motor court living to the Spokane real estate market Sunday. Developer Ron Wells has finished an overhaul – really a rebuilding – of eight small …

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