The city of Spokane recently approved a conditional use permit for Spokane-based State Farm Insurance agent Jack Praxel to convert a single-family home into an office for his agency on Spokane's South Hill.Praxel plans to move his office to the

Spokane Rock Products Inc. has won a $724,000 contract with Spokane County to construct a new road just south of Spokane International Airport to help spur future development there. County contract engineer Chad Coles says the work is to begin a

The Spokane Regional Plan Center has bought a 27,000-square-foot building near the Spokane County Fair & Expo Center for $1.5 million and plans to move there within about the next year, says Rita Hildenbrand, the center's director.The nonprofit

Sackett Contracting & Excavating, of Nordman, Idaho, has won a $3.2 million contract to construct the second phase of a wastewater treatment system for the Granite Reeder Water and Sewer District, located in Nordman, about 35 miles north of Priest

Lydig Construction Inc., of Spokane, is the low bidder, at $4 million, for a school construction project in Valley, Wash., about 40 miles north of Spokane. Lydig will build a 17,000-square-foot building for Valley School District 70's Homelink A

Hap Taylor & Sons Inc., of Coeur d'Alene, doing business as Knife River, has begun work under a $4.3 million contract to lay both sewer lines and water mains in the West Ponderosa area south of Spokane Valley.Mark Stiltz, a Spokane County says a

The owner of Four Seasons Landscaping Inc., of Spokane, says he plans to construct a 7,000-square-foot warehouse building on property he purchased on the West Plains, which is part of a planned light-industrial development there. The owner, of

Bouten Construction Co., of Spokane, has begun work under a $5.6 million contract to renovate and expand the former science building at Spokane Community College, says Dennis Dunham, director of capital projects for Community Colleges of project in