Airport Wingate plans progressing

Plans to build a roughly $7 million, upscale hotel at Spokane International Airport are a few months behind schedule, but construction could start early next year, a co-owner said.

The 83-room, three-story Wingate by Wyndham , located near the Airport Ramada Inn at the northeast corner of South Flint Road and West Airport Drive, could open late next year or early in 2009, said co-owner Rich Cane, of El Paso, Texas.