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New hope at the HUB Sports Center

Liberty Lake facility on stronger financial footing thanks largely to big donor

March 15, 2018

After more than a decade with an uncertain future, the 67,000-square-foot Liberty Lake-based HUB Sports Center is on stronger financial footing than it's ever been, contends Phil Champlin, the sport venue's executive director. The Inland Northwest C

Tax law changes expected to reduce charitable giving

New strategies emerging to maximize deductions

March 15, 2018

LeAnn Bjerken

As the end of tax season looms, financial experts both here and nationally are predicting provisions in the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act could change how taxpayers plan to contribute to charity this year. Most agree the changes are likely to alter taxpayer

T.W. Clark, Ginno pegged for new school projects

$20.7 million Linwood project to replace school

March 15, 2018

Samantha Peone

Several Spokane-area school and education districts are moving forward with major construction projects, with some multimillion-dollar contracts recently awarded, some about to be awarded, and others out for bid. In the Spokane school district, T.W. Clar

Around Town

Real Estate Transactions and Other Business Moves in the Inland Northwest

March 15, 2018

Staff Report

Mad Anthony's Inc., a Bellevue, Wash.-based restaurant group that operates here as Anthony's at Spokane Falls, has purchased the building at 618 N. Monroe and neighboring lot on Lincoln Street for future parking expansion. Tim Kestell and Steve McInto

Global Credit Union is considering building two new retail buildings

Two structures envisioned on downtown's west end

March 15, 2018

Spokane-based Global Credit Union is considering construction of two commercial structures on the western edge of downtown. One structure is planned on a lot just north of its corporate office building at 1500 W. Fourth and the other across Fourth Avenue

The good, bad, ugly about donating under new rules

Larger standard deduction complicates write-offs

March 15, 2018

Rob Blume

The new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act takes effect this year, and Americans are hard at work deciphering what the changes mean. One goal of the new tax law was to simplify filing for more taxpayers. Consequently, the standard deduction has nearly doubled, elimina

Northern Quest starts $3 million-plus in new projects

Projects include hotel updates, lounge redo, more concert seating

March 15, 2018

Linn Parish

Kalispel Development Co., the real estate arm of the Kalispel Tribal Economic Authority, has three new projects under construction at Northern Quest Resort Casino worth a total of more than $3 million. Those projects-a renovation of the hotel's top f

Spokane company matches small businesses with nonprofits

Demand Results also offers event planning, marketing

March 15, 2018

Samantha Peone

Meg Demand, principal and founder of Spokane-based third-party marketing company Demand Results LLC, says many small businesses don't have a set structure to their charitable giving. Often, a business will have a list of nonprofits it's considering s

Five Spokane property owners seek zone changes on 17 parcels

Applications to move through docketing process

March 15, 2018

LeAnn Bjerken

Five Spokane-area developers are seeking changes in land-use designations on parcels they own in Spokane to make them consistent with current or adjacent uses, say consultants who represent the owners in zone-change requests submitted to the city. Land-u

Spokane-area home sales on pace to top 2005's record

Transactions through MLS rose 20 percent in February

March 15, 2018

Spokane-area single-family home purchases jumped 20 percent in February over the same month last year, a report released this week by the Spokane Association of Realtors shows. Single-family homes on less than an acre including condominiums-sold throu