The Dirt: Deaconess Hospital and Yokes Fresh Market involved in million-dollar projects

Deaconess begins $3M building project

Deaconess Hospital is starting a $3 million project for cosmetic upgrades on the second, fourth, ninth and 10th floors. The work includes interior areas totaling about 33,200 square feet, according to building permit records.

Hospital spaces scheduled for updates include an admitting office, ICU waiting area, lobby receptionist area in the main building, surgical waiting space, a nurse station and corridor in the DHEC building, and upgrades to patient quarters.

Associated Construction Inc. of Spokane is the contractor.

Yoke’s to improve Liberty Lake grocery

Yoke’s Fresh Market expects to spend more than $1 million to improve the former Haggen grocery store it’s taking over in Liberty Lake.

The Spokane-based independent grocery chain said it will spend the next three months rebranding and preparing the site as its 13th regional store. Yoke’s plans to hire the store’s employees beginning in early 2016. The store, which was a Safeway before it was part of a large acquisition by Haggen, is at 1233 N. Liberty Lake Road.

Yoke’s said effective Dec. 8 it acquired the store lease and related assets from an affiliate of Haggen Holdings LLC.

The store opened as a Haggen location in June. Then near the end of August, Bellingham-based Haggen filed for bankruptcy protection and announced multiple store closures, including the Liberty Lake site.

Yoke’s has stores in the Spokane area, in Kellogg and Sandpoint, and in the Tri-Cities.

U-Haul rentals offered in Otis Orchards area

KH Market has signed on as a U-Haul neighborhood dealer in the Otis Orchards area.

KH Market, at 21121 E. Wellesley Ave., will offer U-Haul trucks, trailers, towing equipment and support rental items.

The dealership is operated by Kewal and Harjinder Atkar, who also run the grocery store.

Dentist office on the move in Spokane Valley

A renovation project has started for a Spokane Valley dentist office’s move. Love Family Dentistry plans to relocate to 807 N. Argonne Rd., following interior and exterior improvements.

Jongeward Construction & Development is the contractor for the estimated $400,000 project. The dentist practice plans to move by early June to the new location, leaving smaller quarters at 9723 E. Sprague Ave.