Freds Appliance Inc., of Spokane, plans to open a new retail outlet this year in a 20,000-square-foot building to be built for the store just west of the Spokane Valley Mall. In addition to leasing that building, Freds Appliance plans to two to

Robert B. Goebel General Contractor Inc., of Spokane, has been awarded a contract to build the $35 million Salvation Army Coeur dAlene Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, in Coeur dAlene.Terry Goebel, vice president of R.B. Goebel, says

Developer Marshall Chesrown says hes pursuing tentative plans to build a private school in the Legacy Ridge subdivision at Liberty Lake that he is developing through Coeur dAlene-based Black Rock Development Inc.Chesrown, CEO of Black Rock,

A Coeur dAlene company is developing a four-story, 60,000-square-foot office building on Northwest Boulevard south of Interstate 90 in Coeur dAlene. The building, to be called RiverView Tower, will sit on a 3-acre site at 2100 Northwest the

Spokane auto-racing enthusiast Todd Jensen is spearheading a plan to bring dirt-track auto racing back to the Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, which decades ago was a popular site for such competition.Jensens plan has gotten a tentative he

The future of a 10.5-mile stretch of former railroad right of way through Spokane Valley is continuing to be debated four months after Spokane County voters rejected further studies of a light-rail system long proposed for development on that which

Home-improvement retail giant Lowes Cos. apparently plans to open a store next to the Spokane Valley Plaza shopping center east of Sullivan Road, according to a site plan filed with the city of Spokane Valley. The site plan calls for a total of a

Spokane-area home builders say the West Plains is the new Mecca for residential-development activity.Unlike the South Hill, the North Side, and the Valley, where undeveloped land is getting harder to find and has become more expensive when it a

If the growth rate of Spokanes residential construction market can be likened to the pace of a runner, the market might not move ahead at the blistering speed of a sprinter this year, but still will run like a top marathoner.Joel White, of in

Four of the top five Inland Northwest home builders in 2005 remained in that elite group in 2006, but were joined last year by Sullivan Homes Inc., which moved up from 10th place, according to an annual building-permit list compiled by Cedar City,