An affiliate of Liberty Lake-based Greenstone Corp. has submitted predevelopment applications to the city of Spokane for two commercial buildings in the early planning stages at Kendall Yards. The structures have a total anticipated construction value of

The total value of Spokane-area building permits bumped upward in 2015 compared with a year earlier, although falling short of the record high total permit valuation of 2013.

The developers for a proposed seven-story, $12 million mixed-use building that would be located on the lower South Hill intend to break ground this year.

Foreclosure actions completed in Spokane County in 2015 dropped by 27 percent compared with the number of foreclosures in 2014, finally falling out of the historically high range, says Phil Kuharski, a longtime Spokane economic data analyst.

Costco Wholesale Corp. plans to leave the city and move its busy north Spokane store a few miles north into an unincorporated area of the county.