New owner, old gym plans

By next fall, if plans turn out for the new owner of the 1927 old Palouse school gym on Main Street, loft apartments will be available for lease.

David Birge of Spokane -- an investor/developer whom, along with partners, restored the Spokane building which houses No-Li Brewery -- bought the old gym Oct. 21 for $375,000.

Birge's plans are for retail space at the bottom and apartments on the second floor – which was put in by previous owners, who also modified the building to create a two-story apartment at the river end of the brick structure.

Inside walls were also framed, along with two stair...