Longtime Spokane law firm Ewing Anderson PS earlier this month moved to a new office space in the Fidelity Building, at 522 W. Riverside in downtown Spokane, after being located in the Old City Hall building for 20 years.

Patrick Delfino, a principal with the firm, says it's leasing the entire 5,000-square-foot top floor of the eight-story building, as well as about 1,000 square feet of space on the sixth floor. The building is owned and managed by WEB Properties Inc., of Spokane.

Delfino says the firm had considered relocating for the last several years. He says that he and the firm's other principals wanted to take advantage of the downtown real estate market's more affordable conditions and get a "new, fresh space."

He adds that another influencing factor in the move was the option to completely remodel the space in the Fidelity Building to meet some of the firm's needs, including some technology upgrades. Fiber-optic cables, for example, were installed in the offices.

"We wanted to do some things we didn't have at the old offices," Delfino says.

The firm had leased about 7,500 square feet of space in the Old City Hall building, at 221 N. Wall.

While that space was larger than the firm's new location, Delfino says the new space is more efficient and better suited to the firm's work flow.

He says one of the advantages of the new space is that the property manager's office also is located in the building. Bill Butler, owner of WEB Properties, has been active in the remodel of the space, Delfino says.

That build-out began around the time when the firm signed its lease last year.

The upgrades are about 90 percent complete, although the firm moved into the space at the beginning of this month while work was still under way, Delfino says.

Delfino declines to disclose the cost of the improvements, but says the building's owner is paying for the majority of those costs.

Ewing Anderson PS was founded here in 1959, then called Morrison & Huppin, and also has an office in Coeur d'Alene.

The firm has 12 attorneys and employs a total of 24 people.