A new industry is emerging in the Spokane market to serve busy families that find it difficult to prepare evening meals.No less than five meal-preparation businesses that operate a total of six Spokane-area outlets have sprung up since late to

A development company headed by Spokane businessman Don Barbieri plans to build a multimillion-dollar, five-story luxury-condominium building on the north bank of the Spokane River, just west of the Flour Mill downtown.The company, Upper Falls

An affiliate of Rudeen Development LLC, the Spokane apartment developer that built the big Beau-Rivage complex on Upriver Drive, has received approval from the city of Spokane Valley to build a nine-building, 108-unit complex in the Dishman which a

Enrollment in real estate classes at Inland Northwest colleges is on the rise as enrollees seek qualification to reach for their share of an increasingly lucrative real estate pie.Classes offered by North Idaho College at its Work Force Center,

An effort to promote energy-efficient home construction is sprouting in the Spokane area.A consortium of Pacific Northwest power companies, public agencies, and other groups has started the Energy Star Homes Northwest program, through which in

The second phase of a $6 million reconstruction of Government Way, one of Coeur dAlenes main north-south arterials, began recently and is slated to be completed in August, says Dick Suchocki, the citys engineering project manager.When the

Bids on the long-anticipated Third Avenue reconstruction project in downtown Spokane came in higher than the city had expected, and that will delay the scheduled April 1 start of the project.Eller Corp., of Newman Lake, submitted the apparent a

Bank of Whitman, based in Colfax, Wash., says it has bought a downtown Spokane office-building project in which it will be an anchor tenant, and has reduced the size of the planned building to three stories from five.The project, which is well

About $24 million worth of subcontracting work on the big Spokane Convention Center expansion project has been awarded, with the bulk of the contracts going to Spokane-area concerns.The Spokane Public Facilities District and Hoffman-Bouten, a a

The city of Spokane, in cooperation with others, is working on plans to enlarge a broadband wireless-communication network that currently covers just a 100-block area of downtown.The goal is to provide a greatly expanded grid for the technology