Seattle-based mechanical and energy-efficiency contractor McKinstry Co. has bought the former Great Northern building just west of Hamilton Street on the north bank of the Spokane River and plans to invest $10 million in improvements there, says to

Litehouse Foods Inc. is on an aggressive growth path, says Jim Frank, the longtime Sandpoint-based salad dressing maker's president. Within five years, the company aims to increase its sales by about 78 percent, and hopes eventually to be one of

Several construction projects with a combined value exceeding $130 million are in various stages of planning in the University District east of downtown, and schedules for them are expected to overlap during the next two or three years.The first

Financial institutions here, like their counterparts nationally, are being forced to deal increasingly with the myriad costs and management responsibilities of property ownership as they've had to foreclose on more commercial and residential real a