For our annual Building the Inland Northwest magazine, the Journal has written a collection of stories about the largest Spokane-area construction projects envisioned to start this year or in various stages of completion. Read updates on the North Bank

Fifteen months ago, two Spokane women, Aileen Link and Hannah Mackin, launched Mint Interiors Studio LLC to take their interior design careers into their own hands. The opening of their Spokane-based interior design studio, which does business as Mint

New ordinances passed by the Spokane City Council are intended to pave the way for safer housing for renters, but some lawyers here disagree about what kind of impacts the new rules will have on their legal practices.

Spokane-based nonprofit Excelsior Wellness Center LLC has started the first of three phases of renovations at its campus with a focus on integrating trauma-informed design, an emerging concept within architectural design.

Steam Plant Restaurant & Brew Pub, located in Spokane's historic Steam Plant Square building downtown, has added a new event space that's a little outside of the norm, general manager Jeff Cooney says. The space tentatively is being referred to

In February, Joshue Orozco became the vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion for Whitworth University, the institution's third person to step into the role. Orozco, 43, was previously the associate dean of DEI at the university.

Spokane-based Contract Design Associates Inc., a 43-year-old commercial furniture dealership, has relocated recently into a 16,000-square-foot space in the former Spokesman-Review production building, at 1 N. Monroe downtown.

Construction has started on over two dozen single-family homes in Greenstone Corp.'s planned $15 million Garden District community on Spokane's South Hill. Jim Frank, founder and CEO of Liberty-Lake-based Greenstone, says about 30 homes are