Nicholas Deshais

Riverview Retirement Community, a Christian nonprofit that provides health care, housing and services for elderly people, has been issued permits for foundation work and site development for its a planned $5.5 million memory care facility, according to city permit data.

Construction work on the University District pedestrian bridge has been halted for the season. Eventually the $12 million span will feature a central arch reaching 120 feet high.

Apartment vacancy rates are plummeting, home prices are skyrocketing and 20,000 people are expected to move to Spokane in the next 20 years. If that sounds like a recipe to push Spokane into the league of unaffordable West Coast cities like Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, local city planners have an idea to keep Spokane a place where regular working people can live comfortably.

12,658: That’s how many parking spaces there are in the city core, about 80 percent of which is off-street parking in privately-owned lots and garages.

The Republican tax reform plan being debated in Congress could eliminate a financing method used to construct the lion’s share of the nation’s affordable housing, confirming worries and drawing ire from low-income housing advocates and developers.

The Washington State Department of Transportation estimates that studded tires cause up to $29 million in damage to state-owned roadways every year. And in the city of Spokane, where the quality of our roads tops the list of municipal voters’ concerns, you’d think that’d be the end of discussion: Ban the studs, save our roads. But not so fast. “Studs are substantially better on ice and wet ice. They definitely give you superior traction,” said Mel Fries, manager of Preedy’s Tire and Automotive just east of downtown Spokane.

Nearly $5 million worth of improvements is coming to low-income senior housing following the recent purchase of apartment complexes providing such housing.

A three-story apartment building that caught fire last year, leading to the deaths of two people and the hospitalization of a firefighter with severe burns, is being repaired for $2.4 million, according to city permit records.

The Spokane area ranks near the top of the list of the nation’s homebuilding “markets to watch,” according to a new report examining real estate trends from the Urban Land Institute.

A plan to build two 13-story towers on just over 2 acres of land overlooking the Spokane Falls has been approved by the city’s hearing examiner, who said the proposal for the mixed-use retail and residential project was allowed under the city’s laws regulating development along the riverbank.

A landmark location in Hillyard and southern gateway to the neighborhood’s historic business district will soon be a ministorage facility.

The dirt piles along many main Spokane corridors come from the city’s massive project to stop sewage from entering the Spokane River, but the work is having an impact on traffic, in ways both good and bad.

The new transit stops on East Sprague look great, but it’s what they’re doing that has people at Spokane Transit Authority and the city excited.

A historic building had some not-so-historic storefronts ripped from its facade this week, preparation for two leasable spaces expected to open as early as this winter.