In response to a surge in development and population, the subject of growth management is being broached in Kootenai County. The county's Community Development office has produced a 22-page report exploring possible growth management strategies that

More frequently, the spaces where professionals used to make a living are becoming the places where people are, simply, living. The downtown Spokane real estate market is experiencing an emerging trend of office buildings being converted to apartments

Growing up on a Valley farm, Steve Hauschild tackled arduous jobs like clearing rocks from crop fields. Years later, he would clear the way for one of the nation's largest credit unions to sprout in a new market.

As the real estate market in the Spokane area remains scorching hot, so does the mortgage lending market, credit union representatives here say. However, they're also in agreement that the current low-rate environment can't last, and some are working

Zero-percent benchmark interest rates have sparked unprecedented loan demand for Spokane-area banks and credit unions. They also have pinched profit margins and shifted focus to noninterest revenue streams, in some cases.

Lawmakers have enacted extensive tenant protections since the start of the pandemic that lawyers here say will likely blunt a flood of evictions once the eviction moratorium, which was extended this month, ends.

As pandemic-related restrictions throughout Washington begin to lift, some attorneys here say commercial real estate attorneys could soon face a rise in disputes, including litigation related to force majeure clauses.

In Spokane, our community has been hit hard by the pandemic's impacts due to our business demographics and population. According to the Washington state Employment Security Department, our economic engine in the Inland Northwest is a community of