The U.S. Postal Service expects to spend more than $20 million to equip the $40 million, 362,000-square-foot distribution annex its building at the Spokane International Airport Business Parkand that investment will quicken mail handling here.

Biomedex Inc., the young Spokane company that hopes to launch a $200 million biomedical and biotechnology business park on the West Plains, has goals far more reaching than mere real estate development.Launched quietly this year by a group of of

United Paint & Coatings Inc., of Spokane, plans to leave paint in the past, and count, instead, on specialized coatings to carry the company into the next millennium.Within the next five yearsas the company continues to produce its current and

Fiber-Tech Industries Inc., a Spokane-based manufacturer of fiberglass-reinforced plywood panels for the transportation industry, is expanding. The company has leased an additional 40,000 square feet of industrial space in the Spokane Business &

Alvin J. Wolff Inc., of Spokane, has begun work on an $11.6 million expansion of its 186-unit Big Trout Lodge apartment complex at Liberty Lake. It expects to complete the project, which will nearly double the size of the complex, within a is under

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has launched work on a big retail store at Shadle Center, the first of two megastores that the Bentonville, Ark.-based retail giant plans on Spokanes North Side.CSI Construction Inc., a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based has to

Washington state Department of Transportation officials say theyve told the city of Spokane and Washington State University at Spokane that the department must start design work this spring on either a new Trent Avenue bridge west of Hamilton or

A new Hayden Lake, Idaho, company called Guardian Angel Homes LLC has begun construction of a $6 million assisted-living complex in Post Falls.The project involves building four 10,000-square-foot structures at 1050 E. Mullan Ave. that will be a

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. has begun offering to sell land it owns next to its busy rail line that runs through downtown Spokane, drawing a mix of cheers and jeers from owners of businesses that lease the land.Some expect the anticipated

A small convoy of new distribution operations have been arriving in the Spokane area, prompting the Spokane Business & Industrial Park to build more warehouse space here and showing economic-development officials that theres still plenty of tread