YMCA, YWCA move forward on new facilities
The YMCA and YWCA are making progress on two large facilities that will serve as hubs for recreation and social services.
YMCA filed a building permit application for its complex planned along the Newport Highway in North Spokane and is taking bids for contractors. That facility will include a 2,000-square-foot satellite office for the YWCA.
The two nonprofits also applied for a demolition permit to tear down a former bingo hall on land that will house a new joint complex, at 930 N. Monroe St.
“We’re trying to get the project ready to go when we’re able to go,” said Rig Riggins, president of YMCA.
Although the fundraising efforts for the two nonprofits haven’t gone public yet, half of the $40.5 million needed for the two projects has already been raised or pledged. The money has come from existing supporters, along with two government grants totaling $3.3 million and another $9.3 million from the pending sales of the two downtown facilities.
ALSC Architects of Spokane is doing the design work. Construction documents for the Newport Highway project are complete and plans for the centrally located joint campus are about half done, Riggins said.
Plans for the 52,000-square-foot Newport Highway complex include a teen center, conference rooms, offices, a gym, fitness room and aquatics center with lap and recreational pools. The pool area will be similar to the Mirabeau Point aquatics’ center with a possible added attraction.
“One of the things we’re looking at is a lazy river. But that one isn’t finalized yet,” Riggins said.
Hannah’s Garden Inn up for sale
The historic property, which was featured on Home & Garden Television’s “If Walls Could Talk,” is on the market for $2.5 million.
Shawn Nichols and his wife, Ann Marie Byrd, purchased the nearly 100-year-old Kirtland Cutter mansion eight years ago. It sits on a half-acre on Seventh Avenue, above Deaconess Medical Center, and required extensive renovation work.
Eighteen family members pitched in and transformed the place into a four-bedroom bed and breakfast, special events venue and a restaurant, Delaney’s Music Café.
Although Nichols declined to say how much money was spent on the project, he said “just stapling $20s to the walls would have been cheaper and faster.”
Joe’s Sports, Outdoor & More opens
The sporting goods store has entered the area with a store at 13902 E. Indiana Ave., near the Spokane Valley Mall. Joe’s Web site shows the company has 30 stores in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Two Liberty Lake companies get city’s OK to build
Alliant Securities has approval to build a 19,536-square-foot office building in Liberty Lake. The two-story project is being built on the west side of Legacy Ridge Drive, south of Country Vista Drive.
F5 Networks is expanding its Liberty Lake facility. The company recently got the city’s permission to build a two-story 28,000-square-foot addition onto its existing 15,000-square-foot facility at 1322 N. Whitman Lane.
Ready to move
Alert Distributing LLC, which distributes the high-energy drinks made by Red Bull, has leased 5,280 square feet of space at Spokane Business & Industrial Park on Sullivan Road.
Crown West Realty LLC, owners of Spokane Business & Industrial Park, recently purchased an office building in Phoenix, Ariz., for $17.3 million. The deal is the third joint venture with The Travelers Companies, Inc.