A Seattle family trust has started work on a $1.5 million industrial building at the Chimney Rock Industrial Park, in East Spokane, and plans to break ground on a smaller, $500,000 structure there later this month.Those buildings, being by the

A fast-growing Chicago-area real estate investment trust has bought for $54.5 million the big Northpointe Plaza shopping center, on Spokanes far North Side.The company, Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust Inc., completed the transaction a

Though Allen Tower has helped design a backyard owned by a well-known businessman here and has provided plant materials to an eminent botanical garden in Colorado, he doesnt hanker for recognition.Tower, who owns Spokane-based Tower Perennial

The city of Spokane has received an offer to buy City Hall.In addition, city officials have talked with a second potential buyer that said it soon will submit an offer to buy the seven-story building, at 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd., and a third

Culminating about 12 years of effort, Spokane County has enacted new regulations that will change how and where development is allowed in the countys expansive unincorporated area.The new rules, which took effect at the beginning of this a in

It was a very good year in 2003 to be an executive of a publicly traded company.Improved share prices and stronger corporate earnings triggered hefty raises for many such executives here, and more of them saw the improved market as a good time

Two national trends are causing demand for warehouse space here to decline, industry observers say.National retailers more frequently are using huge distribution centers to ship their goods nationally or to broad regions, rather than using in &

James J. Williams, a commodities trucking subsidiary of big Spokane-based Trans-System Inc., has found a lucrative niche in hauling hazardous materials throughout the Northwest and western Canada.The operation, which now is headquartered in 40

Theres more to being a medical-evaluation company than drawing blood and asking questions of someone who is buying life insurance.While thats a good bit of business for the dozen concerns that do such medical examinations here, the scope of

Dental insurance, though perhaps not deemed as essential as medical insurance, offers a number of perks that merit its consideration as a valuable benefit, employers and insurance brokers here say.Doug Toone, owner of Spokane-based Jewelry says