A limited-access highway being built in north Spokane has received $35 million from a federal economic stimulus program that will pay for a 3.7-mi stretch of roadway and could generate up to 106 jobs.
The North Spokane Corridor is expected to be a 60mph, 10.5-mi-long highway linking Interstate 90 on the south end to existing U.S. Highway 2 and U.S. Highway 395 on the north end. The corridor is ranked 19th out of 80 on the Congressional High Priority Corridor List for the National Highway System and carries more than 7.2 million tons of freight through Spokane every year.