Inland WA Activity - (Spokane, Tri-Cities, Yakima etc.)

[mSeattle]

Convention Center project advances - Art only
Mike McLean
April 10th, 2014
http://www.spokanejournal.com/local-...nces-art-only/



A two-story 91,000-square-foot addition to the Spokane Convention Center downtown starts to rise on the north side of the exhibition hall. Garco/ALSC/LMN is the design-build team on the $55 million project, which is scheduled to be completed in December. - See more at: http://www.spokanejournal.com/local-....0SIT7ezb.dpuf

[mSeattle]

New Spokane Convention Hotel (rendering)




WSU Spokane starts work on master-plan update
College looks to address future needs at Riverpoint


WSU-Spokane-2 by mSeattle, on Flickr

Following the opening of its $79 million Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences Building on the Riverpoint Campus east of downtown late last year, Washington State University Spokane has started its next master-plan update. The focus of the master plan - See more at: http://www.spokanejournal.com/local-....NTANLops.dpuf

WSU-Spokane Master Plan
http://spokane.wsu.edu/services2/com...%20Mode%5D.pdf




WSU-Spokane-3 by mSeattle, on Flickr


WSU-Spokane by mSeattle, on Flickr

[mSeattle]

May 12, 2014 in City
Spokane airport upgrade continues with new fire station
Mike Prager The Spokesman-Review

A new fire station at Spokane International Airport is rising from the grassy flat southwest of the Alaska Airlines terminal.

The $8 million project will replace the existing fire station located northeast of the A and B concourses. Airport officials said the old station has reached the end of its useful life.

The 17,700-square-foot facility will have four equipment bays. It’s being built by Lydig Construction under a design by Integrus Architecture, both of Spokane.

While the new building appears to be located in a remote spot, it’s closer to the center of the main runway as well as the crosswind runway, said Todd Woodard, airport spokesman.

The new fire station will also work well for timely responses to a future third runway, included in the airport’s master plan.



More: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/201...with-new-fire/

[mSeattle]

Found these articles from this past fall about the Convention Center hotel under construction.

21 Nov, 2013

HOTEL MANAGEMENT

Spokane Convention Center hotel under construction
http://www.hotelmanagement.net/inves...truction-25722

Construction is under way on a 15-story hotel across the street from the Spokane Convention Center.

The $50-million, 720-room hotel will be the largest in the city.

The hotel is expected to open in 2015. It is being built by the Davenport Hotel Collection, the Spokane company owned by Karen and Walt Worthy. The Worthys started work on the project in mid-August.

...The construction eliminated several hundred surface parking spots near the INB Performing Arts Center, the Convention Center and nearby businesses.

More: http://www.hotelmanagement.net/inves...truction-25722

and this

Aerial photo shows off Downtown Spokane hotel construction
by KREM.com
Posted on October 15, 2013 at 11:23 AM
Updated Tuesday, Oct 15 at 11:44 AM
http://www.krem.com/news/Aerialphoto...226351291.html

SPOKANE, Wash.-- A large construction site has replaced a Downtown Spokane parking lot. An aerial view of the construction site was released Thursday afternoon.

[mSeattle]

Ridpath Hotel rehabilitation financing nears completion
Downtown revitalization project awaits city loan
Mike McLean 
June 19th, 2014

http://www.spokanejournal.com/local-....CzZ5V0gX.dpuf

Ridpath Hotel rehabilitation financing nears completionDowntown revitalization project awaits city loanMike McLean June 19th, 2014

The $17.9 million project would include 201 apartment units, six luxury condominiums, and street-level commercial space.

Ron Wells, the Spokane real estate developer who specializes in rehabilitating historic buildings, says investor groups are close to securing a complex financing package to convert the long-vacant Ridpath Hotel downtown into a vibrant residential and commercial complex.





http://www.spokanejournal.com/local-...rs-completion/

[mSeattle]

Another project emerges in downtown’s creative alleyFormer Cold Storage site will be mixed-use spaceKatie Ross June 5th, 2014 - See more at: http://www.spokanejournal.com/local-....6v0Ugtcr.dpuf

[mhays]

That hotel is massive for a city Spokane's size. It'll certainly help the convention center. Anyone know the metro room inventory? (I'm being lazy and not looking it up!)

[InlandEmpire]

I might be driving over that direction in a couple weeks; I'll try to take a couple photos of the hotel's progress.

[InlandEmpire]

oh- and there had been rumors that WSU was/is researching starting the state's second medical school in Spokane to compete with UW. That would be a great addition to Spokane's emerging U district.

[James Bond Agent 007]

There is already a long-running Spokane thread here.