Colbert-based Kilgore Construction Inc. has started construction on a $1 million, nearly 8,000-square-foot building at 9412 N. Newport Highway that's planned to be used for retail space.

Intermountain West Insulation & Garage Doors recently moved its Spokane Valley branch into a new building in which it has incorporated many of the energy-saving insulation products that it sells and installs for commercial and residential customers.

Kootenai County has leased a stand-alone building in northwest Coeur d'Alene, where it plans to move its public defender's office, giving it larger space and better security, says Dan Green, Kootenai County commissioner.

Havana Properties LLC, a recently formed affiliate of Spokane-based Fast Way Freight Systems Inc., has bought the Broadway Terminal industrial park where Fast Way has been leasing space for more than two decades, says Mark Willard, Fast Way chief financia

John Wright, who owns companies in Moses Lake and Ellensburg, Wash., that haul ocean containers, has bought 10 acres of industrial-zoned land in Airway Heights and says he plans to open a satellite container yard and loading facility there. Wright says

A nearly completed multiuse building in Browne's Addition with an architectural style reminiscent of the French Quarter of New Orleans is scheduled to go to auction this month, says Shane O'Neill, an agent with Spokane real estate brokerage Coldwell B