Newmark Realty Capital Inc. has arranged a commercial mortgage refinance totaling $4.8 million for the Schade Towers building at 528 E. Spokane Falls Blvd., says Demetri Koston, vice president at Newmark's Spokane office. Koston says he and Skip Slavin

Longtime Coeur d'Alene homebuilder Aspen Homes & Development LLC is constructing a new $1 million office building near the Spokane River in the Riverstone development, says Tom Stam, an Aspen Homes principal. Aspen Homes is acting as its own contractor

The Spokane-based Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center plans to develop a new $3.5 million facility to replace the current building located at 855 S. Sherman, says Freda Gandy, the center's director. Coeur d'Alene-based Watson & Herres LLC

Research into a proposed $27 million sports field house is moving forward following an agreement giving the Spokane Public Facilities District the go-ahead to inspect the mostly city-owned property north of the Spokane River, near Riverfront Park, says Ke

Gallagher Construction Group, of Spokane, is progressing rapidly on a $340,000 renovation project that will convert a former retail structure at 2173 N. Hamilton into a church office building for neighboring Grace Christian Fellowship.

The Construction Industry Training Council of Washington, a Bellevue, Wash.-based apprenticeship and craft training nonprofit, has opened a Spokane-area facility and has selected a coordinator to lead its operations here for Eastern Washington.