Sarah Hamilton, a registered nurse, recently opened Sarah Hamilton Face in suite 207 of the Liberty Lake Portal building, 23403 E. Mission. The boutique medical spa specializes in cosmetic injectables such as Botox, Juvederm, Restylane, as well as medical-grade skin care products. The office is open Monday through Friday and by appointment only on Saturday.

With over 10 years of experience in the medical spa industry, Hamilton was previously with Shape Med Spa and Sacred Heart Medical Center. For more information, call 999-8849 or visit www.sarahhamiltonface.com.

Baker Construction, owned by Liberty Lake resident Barry Baker, is the general contractor for a large-scale student housing project at 940 N. Ruby Street. Designed by California-based architect Jay S. Crawford, AIA, the project will house over 200 students attending Gonzaga University and other universities in the area. 

Located along the west edge of the Gonzaga University campus, the six-story building will provide 79,455 square feet of livable space with 61 apartment suites comprised of 3- and 4-bedroom layouts for a total of 213 rooms.

Construction will be completed in July of 2016, and the building will be ready for occupancy that fall. 

STCU recently announced the promotion of Rich Lentz to serve as the credit union's Director of Consumer Lending.  Lentz joined the credit union in 2005. Since that time, he has served as consumer loan manager, lending center manager and consumer loan manager. 

A Spokane native, Lentz graduated from Eastern Washington University with a master's degree in business administration and a bachelor's degree in finance and economics. He currently is enrolled in the Western Cuna Management School and will graduate this July. 

Spark Literacy Center, a new nonprofit education center, will open its doors to the public in June. Located at 1214 W. Summit Parkway in the Kendall Yards development, the center aims to provide innovative services and programs for the West Central community and the greater Spokane area.

According to a press release, start-up funds for this project were provided by Greenstone Corporation through its charitable Greenstone Foundation. Construction on the 2,300 square foot space between Mom's Tattoo and Monkey Boy Bicycles began in April 2014.

The interior space will provide gathering spaces for community clubs, media and screens for movies and performance arts, youth area, a workshop with tools and more. Services include a lending library, computing devices, tutoring, workshops and educational programs for all ages. 

For more, visit www.sparkwestcentral.org.

Liberty Lake-based Itron, Inc., recently launched its Itron Riva Developers Community that invites developers to create applications for its Itron Riva platform. Itron Riva is the first-of-its-kind distributed intelligence platform that supports sensing technologies and dynamic applications at the device level.

Through the Itron Riva Developers Community site at www.itronriva.com, developers are able to access tools and support for app development, including purchasing Itron Riva Development Kits, participating in an online forum and accessing Itron support. 

"For the first time, engineers, developers and manufacturers will be able to develop, deploy and manage sensing technologies and dynamic applications at the device level," said Simon Pontin, Itron's chief technology officer. "By launching the Itron Riva Developers Community, we are fundamentally changing edge computing for millions of meters and smart devices worldwide."