Additional $300,000 in improvements slated for Centennial Hotel Spokane

Since its change in ownership in July, the Centennial Hotel Spokane has seen a number of improvements and more are coming. Upcoming work includes the addition of four new meeting rooms, work valued at $300,000, according to permits issued by the city.

Worthy Hotels Inc. purchased the Red Lion Hotel at the Park, 303 W. North River Drive, for $35 million, and the sale was followed by a flurry of building permits for renovations and updates. They include the renovation of guest rooms, conversion of meeting rooms into guest rooms, a kitchen remodel, new shower valves, the installation of security cameras and updates to the electrical and fire-alarm systems.

The 401-room, 67,000-square-foot hotel completed a $12 million renovation before the sale.

The Centennial Hotel Spokane opened in 1983 with 184 guest rooms; later tower additions increased the number of guest rooms. The hotel also has 30,000 square feet of meeting space.

Walt and Karen Worthy started Worthy Hotels in 2000 with the purchase and restoration of the Historic Davenport Hotel. The company now owns and operates five – all in downtown Spokane – including the Davenport Tower, the Davenport Lusso and the Davenport Grand.

Spokane City Credit Union completes major renovation

A major update to a 1970s-era bank building, including interior demolition and new landscaping, is complete.

Work on the Spokane City Credit Union building, 1930 N. Monroe St., began in the spring. A complete renovation was done to the credit union’s 2,000-square-foot main building and 2,800-square-foot lower level.

The property was cleared completely, and new pavement, asphalt driveways and rock landscaping was added.

The $650,000 project required the demolition of a house on-site at Lincoln Street and Shannon Avenue. The house, which was most recently used as a duplex, was built in 1904 and housed the credit union’s operation through construction.

The parking lot was moved to the east side of the property, where the house sat. An Avista electric vehicle-charging station was installed in the lot.

The work was done at the south end of a major road construction project that remade North Monroe, but the construction was unrelated.

The credit union was founded in 1934, and its customers were exclusively city employees. In 1978, credit union membership was expanded to Spokane Transit Authority employees, and in 1980 it opened membership to “anyone who lives, works, worships, or goes to school in the State of Washington,” according to its website. It has 5,200 members.

The project’s general contractor was Spokane Valley’s Meridian Construction & Development. The renovation was designed by MMEC Architecture & Interiors, of Spokane.