The city of Spokane has awarded a $570,000 contract to Arc Electric & Lighting Corp., of Spokane, to lay about 25,300 linear feet of fiber-optic cable along Third Avenue between Division and Maple streets.The cable will transfer information from

Boise-based Green Home LLC, a home energy-efficiency improvement contractor, has leased 4,200 square feet of space in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, at 3808 N. Sullivan, and has opened a branch office there. Chase Breckner, of Crown West a

Two Spokane law offices have leased office space in the Fernwell Building, at 505 W. Riverside downtown.One of the firms, Felice Law Offices PS, plans to occupy 2,000 square feet of space on the second floor of the Fernwell, moving from 3,000 of

Mobile real estate team changes affiliation Joe and Julie Ann Young, a Spokane husband-wife real estate team, have changed their affiliation from Windermere Real Estate/Cornerstone to Re/Max of Spokane. Julie Anne Young says she and

Coeur d'Alene businessman Tom Power and his wife, Patricia, have bought the Wine Cellar, a longtime downtown Coeur d'Alene bistro and jazz venue, and the 9,100-square-foot building it occupies, says Naomi Julian, general manager of the Wine Cellar

Avista Utilities has reduced to $99 the price of the home energy audits it began offering earlier this year, and its customers are responding to the reduction.The Spokane utility notified customers in certain Spokane ZIP codes of the price in an

The city of Sandpoint, Idaho, is seeking bids for a planned expansion of one of its drinking water treatment plants that would about double the city's capacity to supply potable water, says a project manager for the Spokane office of Denver-based 5

Millennium Development LLC, a company owned by real estate investor and developer Rob Brewster Jr., has filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court here, listing a $600,000 debt owed to Genesis Financial Corp., of Spokane filing as

Debbie Mumm Inc., a Spokane-based company that creates designs for quilt patterns, home decor items, fabric, stationery, and other products, has moved its operations nearer to downtown.Steve Mumm, chief operating officer and co-owner of the says

One of the sons of prominent Spokane-area property owner and developer Harlan Douglass has sued a brother and a sister over a $685,000 sum paid by Spokane County last year to settle a civil suit regarding a piece of property they own jointly. have