U.S. Bank's private banking department is providing enhanced educational support for its financial representatives, including here, that it believes will enable them to better serve its larger-balance customers.

Craft3, a nonprofit lender based in the southwestern Washington city of Ilwaco, has opened a Spokane office in the Peyton Building, at 10 N. Post downtown, says Susan Doll, Craft3's senior business lender here.

Seattle-based Washington Federal Inc. is constructing a $3.5 million building on Spokane's North Side that will house its first permanent bank branch in Spokane and its Eastern Washington division offices. Located at 5322 N. Division, the two-story, 12,

Oregon-based Willamette Valley Bank plans to move its Coeur d'Alene home-loan center by summer into a new building on Sherman Avenue at the east edge of downtown, says Steve Novotny, the bank's Coeur d'Alene sales manager and one of its loan officer

HomeStreet Inc., the Seattle-based residential lender with three Spokane-area offices, says it has seen strong growth in its employer-assisted mortgage lending program since the bank entered the Spokane market three years ago.

Dan Pinkerton, founder and president of Coeur d'Alene-based wealth management company Pinkerton Retirement Specialists LLC, and his wife, Kathryn, plan to open a unique museum in a building that's under construction in the Riverstone development north

Pet Emergency Clinic is being built at the northeast corner of Division Street and Mission Avenue. The $3 million, 14,000-square-foot building is slated to be completed in early 2016. Baker Construction & Development Inc., of Spokane, is the contractor on