The wood products sector is expecting continued, steady improvement next year, largely due to anticipated ongoing recovery in the U.S. housing market, industry observers say. Shawn Church, editor of Eugene, Ore.-based Random Lengths, a publication that t

Following an upswing in building activity here in 2013, some construction industry observers are optimistic that forward momentum will carry through the coming year. Jan Quintrall, director of business and development services for the city of Spokane, sa

In one of the brighter real estate sectors, Spokane-area residential sales improved for the second consecutive year in 2013, and Ken Lewis, owner of Spokane Valley-based Prudential Spokane Real Estate, says he expects the spring of 2014 to be the best spr

In some sectors of the Inland Northwest economy, activity levels are returning to prerecession levels, welcome news that comes none too soon for economic observers. In overall employment, Spokane-area economists are expecting job growth next year, though

Spokane Public Schools has selected Graham Construction & Management Inc., of Spokane, as the general contractor and construction manager for a planned $13.7 million addition to the NewTech Skills Center in Hillyard, where work is scheduled to start next

The Wolff Co. has sold two of its big multifamily properties, including the Big Trout Lodge apartment complex in Liberty Lake, and a third sale is pending, says Kennedy Wilson, a Beverly Hills, Calif., real estate investment firm involved in the transacti

Pinkerton Retirement Specialists LLC, a growing Coeur d'Alene-based wealth-management company, has acquired two other financial adviser offices and plans to construct a new building in the Riverstone development that will have three times the office spa