Interface Computer Services Inc., a computer-skills school that does business here as Interface College-Spokane, says it has bought an 8,800-square-foot, two-story building at the northwest corner of Second Avenue and Stevens Street downtown and plans to move there next month.

The larger quarters at 502 W. Second will provide Interface enough space to expand its staff to 35 people eventually, says President Dave Wilson. The school currently employees 25 people, including adjunct faculty, and occupies 7,300 square feet of leased space at the southwest corner of Washington Street and Boone Avenue, Wilson says.

Interface specializes in providing education and training in business and information technology, career-upgrade training for experienced computer users, and computer-skills training for businesspeople, he says.

Its offerings include eight two-semester training programs and five four-semester associate-degree programs. Specific courses include training in page design, computer language certification, and software applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, and databases.

Wilson founded Interface here in 1982. The school had grown to three locations by 2000, but consolidated at the Washington Street location after the tech industry collapse of 2001. Since then, Interface has served a growing number of students at its physical site and online, says Walt Leathers, the school's vice president.

Jim Orcutt, of NAI Black, and Gary McWilliams, of Available Realty Inc., both of Spokane, handled the purchase of the building on Second Avenue. That structure formerly housed PacWest Services Inc., a Spokane mortgage company that bought a 4,000-square-foot building at 24 W. Indiana and moved there last year.