Eastern Washington University is preparing to replace a long-dormant residence hall on its Cheney campus with a new, larger student housing facility at 106 N. Ninth.

Craft3, a nonprofit community lender that helps finance projects in underserved communities, is planning to invest between $25 million and $30 million in the Inland Northwest following an $80 million New Markets Tax Credit allocation.

Dallas-based Sunflower Bank N.A. has consolidated two Spokane branches into one new licensed depository branch and is expanding into North Idaho with the opening of a new loan production office in Coeur d’Alene to meet high demand in the Inland Northwest region.  

For most business owners in the Pacific Northwest, succession planning lives somewhere between "eventually" and "when the time comes." It sits on a list alongside other distant concerns, comfortably deferred while the immediate demands of running the business take priority. 

RV self-storage company SH Storage LLC, of Airway Heights, is planning to expand its capacity with the development of two new buildings featuring 28 new RV storage units this spring.

Spokane Valley-based foundry Spokane Industries LLC has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing equipment failures, rising material costs, a structural facility collapse, and more than $1 million in employee embezzlement as factors that strained the company’s finances, according to court records filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Washington. 

Over the last month, four men who made lasting impacts on Spokane’s culture, business landscape, and community have died: Gordon Budke, Larry Brown, Frank Bouten, and Steve Strom.

Seattle-based Coughlin Porter Lundeen Inc. is preparing to expand with a new office in downtown Spokane this summer, says Eric Dixon, associate principal at the structural and civil engineering company.

Seattle-based contractor and energy-efficient systems manufacturer McKinstry Co. is planning a second prefabrication building on the West Plains that’s expected to double the company’s fabrication capacity in Spokane County.