Atlanta-based United Parcel Service and Warren, Mich.-based Crown Enterprises Inc. are planning to develop a distribution center and a truck terminal, respectively, at the southeast corner of Beck and Jacklin roads, in west Post Falls.

Work on the newest buildings in the fast-tracked Playfair Commerce Park is well underway. L.B. Stone Properties Group LLC is building three new warehouses at the 58-acre site in East Spokane, as well as a 100,000-square-foot facility

Spokane County has begun the permitting process for the planned $10 million renovation of a former carpet and wholesale flooring store at 102 S. Spokane, on the edge of the University District

Construction is under way on a new $12 million, 30,000-square-foot Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery facility at 2230 E. Sprague.

Cascadia Senior Living LLC's Fieldstone Memory Care assisted-living center is taking shape on Spokane's South Hill and is expected to open this fall.

Hope House, a women's shelter and low-income apartment complex that Volunteers of America Eastern Washington & Northern Idaho is developing, is expected to open next year on the western edge of downtown Spokane

A second Ronald McDonald House is under construction on Spokane's lower South Hill, marking the first major expansion in 17 years for Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Inland Northwest.

Two new buildings worth a total of about $57 million are coming out of the ground on the southern edge of Spokane's University District. Construction crews broke ground last fall on the seven-level, 159,000-square-foot Catalyst Building

Eastern Washington University has one large construction project underway and is seeking more than $27 million in funding for two others during this year's state legislative session.