Safco Inc., of Hayden, has won a $2.2 million project to install sewer lines in the Rotchford Acres area near 16th Avenue and Sullivan Road, say county officials.Cindy Grasso, a county program specialist, says the planned sewer-line project is a

Sackett Contracting & Excavating, of Nordman, Idaho, has won a $1.1 million contract to replace an aging gravity sewer system for the Ponderay Shores Water and Sewer District in Pend Oreille County, Washington.Work will begin this month to the

About $3.1 million in projects are planned or under way in and around the city of Davenport, Wash., to upgrade a community park and add recreational facilities, including a new public swimming pool, skate park, park pavilion, and baseball and Inc.,

A review of the 33 U.S. home builders with more than $10 million in annual revenue found recently that more than 30 percent were in financial distress and in danger of filing for bankruptcy.Grant Thornton Corporate Advisory & Restructuring part

There is an old saying about real estate investing, which is, "Buy in bad times on good economics and sell in good times on bad economics." I don't know who originally came up with the phrase, but it's a great rule to follow.Real estate, like of

A sealed-bid auction has failed to attract buyers for the top two floors of the 13-story former Ridpath Hotel tower downtown or for the four-story annex, known as the Y Building, that's just east of the tower. NAI Black sales and leasing agent

A physician has bought a 1.25-acre lot on Spokane's North Side and plans to develop a medical office building there when the economy improves, says the real estate broker who handled the transaction.The broker, Guy Byrd, of Cornerstone Property

The Spokane franchise of Other Mothers, a Phoenix, Ariz.-based concern that sells new and used women's, children's, and maternity clothes and children's furniture, has leased 5,300 square feet of floor space in the Whitworth Square shopping center,

Lydig Construction Inc., of Spokane, says it's converting a classroom into a wine-tasting lab on the Washington State University campus, in Pullman, as part of a $373,500 remodel of a portion of the university's Todd Hall Addition.The project a