A new life for Fisher Building

School House Lofts property manager Eric Pettit noted one of the unique features of the new student-housing project opening this fall across Fifth Street from Eastern Washington University’s Showalter Hall is the style of each apartment unit.

“Not a single one is alike,” Pettit said.

Indeed, while each studio, three- and four-bedroom units share similar floor plans, each unit incorporates into its own way aspects of what the building used to be — the Cheney School District’s original high school, known as the Fisher Building.

Named after long-time Cheney educator, principal and mayor George Fi...