Construction is underway on the massive $181 million Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center on the West Plains that's expected to be completed this summer and fully staffed in the fall.

Work on the seven-story, $10 million-plus multiuse building on west First Avenue at the west end of downtown is well underway. Spokane-based T.W. Clark Construction LLC is the general contractor on the project

The $40 million Sportsplex planned near downtown is currently in the design-review and budget planning stage under the purview of the Spokane Public Facility District's board of directors

Demolition of the roughly 54-year-old former YWCA buildings in downtown Spokane began last month to make room for the planned $60 million mixed-use development dubbed The Falls.

For the first time since the stock markets opened in the U.S. in 1817, most of the value of the top five S&P 500 companies is comprised of intangible assets, says Richard Denenny, president of Spokane-based intellectual property law firm Lee & Hayes PC.