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Local running store heading to Kendall Yards

Sun., Oct. 1, 2017

Fleet Feet, a Spokane-based athletic store, has been issued permits to begin tenant improvements at its new location in Kendall Yards.

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Dishman Dodge plans new service, sales area

Sun., Oct. 1, 2017

The nearly 4,500-square-foot building at 7701 E. Sprague Ave. will be open by the beginning of 2018.

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Verizon installing antenna atop Crescent Building in downtown Spokane

UPDATED: Mon., Oct. 2, 2017

The work, estimated at $110,000, is part of a push by the Manhattan-based telecommunications conglomerate to expand its wireless network.

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New housing built for Jesuits at Gonzaga, Gonzaga Prep

Sat., Sept. 30, 2017

The Della Strada Jesuit Community of Spokane, 1207 N. Astor St., is a home and “spiritual haven for Jesuits” and will open later this fall.

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Dishman Dodge building new services, sales area

Sat., Sept. 30, 2017

The nearly 4,500-square-foot building at 7701 E. Sprague Ave. will be open by the beginning of 2018.

News >  Spokane

Councilman proposes Monroe Street project alternative that he says would end lawsuit against city

Thu., Sept. 28, 2017

A resolution to block the street renovation of North Monroe could be filed as early as this week by Spokane City Councilman Mike Fagan, who warned that the future of potential litigation against the city regarding the street work is contingent on how the council votes on the matter.

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Spokane, other cities are problem-solvers in dysfunctional political world, Urban scholar tells GSI meeting

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 27, 2017

In a speech before Greater Spokane Incorporated members that went around the world, urban scholar Bruce Katz of The Brookings Institution kept returning to Spokane and its ability to shape its future.

News >  Spokane

Knezovich warns North Monroe road project would impede evacuation of downtown Spokane during emergencies

Wed., Sept. 27, 2017

Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich waded into a contentious discussion about street design earlier this month by officially coming out against the planned street renovation on North Monroe, saying its redesign will “decrease the public safety for the entire region.”

News >  Spokane

Century-old maps – and a 21st-century treatment – reveal transit lines Spokane’s past

UPDATED: Mon., Sept. 25, 2017

Cameron Booth, a Portland-based graphic designer from Australia, has given Spokane’s streetcar and electric interurban rail networks a decidedly 21st-century treatment, giving them new digital life.

News >  Spokane

Q&A with graphic designer Cam Booth

Mon., Sept. 25, 2017

Graphic designer Cam Booth used historical documents to recreate maps of Spokane’s early transit lines. He spoke with the Spokesman-Review about his motivation to undertake the project and what he found in the process.

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$2.5 million remodel for Coeur d’Alene’s Super One

Sun., Sept. 24, 2017

A six-month, $2.5 million remodel of the Super One Foods in Coeur d’Alene began last week and will completely re-do the building’s exterior and interior.

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The Dirt: CdA Super One undergoing $2.5M remodel

Sun., Sept. 24, 2017

The remodel of the 67,000-square-foot building, 305 W. Kathleen Ave., will include renovation of the bakery, deli, pharmacy, and meat and fish area, and add a mezzanine with a dining area.

News >  Spokane

East Sprague Avenue has seen its fortunes rise and fall. Now it’s turning a corner. For real.

UPDATED: Mon., Sept. 25, 2017

If one building describes East Sprague Avenue, it’s the Pansie garage. On the main drag between Pittsburg and Magnolia streets, it’s uneven yet sturdy, almost as if two buildings were joined and centered around a garage door. It’s all brick, giving it century-old solidity and flourish, with decorative patterns of tan brick adding to the imbalance of the building’s facade.

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Indaba Coffee plans Kendall Yards location; will include Hello Sugar doughnut shop

Sat., Sept. 23, 2017

A new commercial building is going up in the central part of Kendall Yards, the trendy and booming development just northwest of downtown Spokane in the West Central neighborhood.

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Soul food restaurant in east Spokane gets permits

Sat., Sept. 23, 2017

A new soul food restaurant providing life skills and job training for teenagers will begin $120,000 in interior remodel work, according to permits issued by the city of Spokane.

News >  Spokane

Popularity of Perry Street brings higher house prices, sprawling shops and extra eateries

UPDATED: Sat., Sept. 23, 2017

The East Central neighborhood is a land of many faces.

News >  Spokane

Monroe Street business group files $15 million tort claim against city to stop lane reduction

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 22, 2017

A coalition of business owners on North Monroe on Thursday filed a $15 million tort claim against the city of Spokane, citing “significant revenue losses” during the city’s planned renovation of the street.

News >  Spokane

Getting There: City unveils a new and improved East Sprague Avenue

Mon., Sept. 18, 2017

After nearly half a year of construction, and half a century of stagnation, a new section of East Sprague Avenue opened Friday afternoon.

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New buildings, tubing hill planned for Mount Spokane

Sun., Sept. 17, 2017

The construction is part of a $700,000 project that will include a tubing hill, observation building and ski hut, said Brad McQuarrie, general manager at Mt. Spokane Ski and Snowboard Park.

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Cottage housing for homeless women, children planned for Spokane’s Audobon-Downriver neighborhood

Sun., Sept. 17, 2017

Walker Construction was issued more than $2.2 million in permits this week to begin construction on a transitional housing project for women and children. The development, at 2176 W. Fairview, will have a final price tag of $6.2 million, 24 cottages and a community center in the Audobon-Downriver neighborhood.

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Downtown burger restaurant to begin kitchen work

Sat., Sept. 16, 2017

A permit was issued for $150,000 in internal work on Incrediburger, a new downtown Spokane hamburger restaurant at 909 W. First Ave. in the old location of Dempsey’s Brass Rail, which went out of business in 2011.

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New buildings, tubing hill planned for Mount Spokane

Sat., Sept. 16, 2017

The construction is part of a $700,000 project that will include a tubing hill, observation building and ski hut, said Brad McQuarrie, general manager at Mt. Spokane Ski and Snowboard Park.

News >  Spokane

Chaps Diner and Bakery opens its door to Freeman families

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 15, 2017

Chaps Diner and Bakery was closed to the public Thursday, but open – and free – for everyone in the Freeman community and emergency responders following the Wednesday shooting that killed one student and injured three others.

News >  Spokane

In the space of moments, Freeman High School ripped by violence

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 14, 2017

He arrived with a warning for his friends. In a note, he told them he planned to do “something stupid.” Just after 10 a.m. Wednesday, his promise was kept and a community was left with a dead son, daughters in the care of trauma surgeons and grief not known before in Spokane.

News >  Spokane

Crane used to remove rock and garbage from Monroe Street Dam on Spokane River

Tue., Sept. 12, 2017

Workers moved a large crane to the banks of the Spokane River near the Monroe Street Dam to move gravel and cobble that has clogged the dam’s intake structure.