Newly announced draft plans to improve the Plante's Ferry Park sports complex involve nearly $40 million in upgrades to grow sports tourism and spur economic development, says Spokane County Parks, Recreation & Golf director Doug Chase.

The city of Airway Heights is designing a new, $9.3 million public safety campus intended to serve its growing community better and to improve functionality and accessibility of the police and fire departments and City Hall, says Airway Heights city

Teri Koski's dream is to go across the country fixing up run down houses and giving them away for free to those in need. While Koski isn't doing that just yet, she has founded Fix It Sister Spokane LLC, providing handywoman services to the Spokane

Spokane-based trial attorneys Kevin W. Roberts and Chad Freebourn, owners of Roberts Freebourn PLLC, have purchased the historic, three-story 1889 Building in the downtown core for $1.5 million.

Rivercrossing LLC and Frank Family Investments LLC, affiliates of Liberty Lake-based development company Greenstone Corp., have submitted a land-use application for the next phase of development at Trutina, a 55-and-older gated community in

Aero-Flite Inc. is expanding operations at Spokane International Airport, where the aerial firefighting company is planning a 30,000-square-foot maintenance hangar to meet the needs of its growing fleet, says general manager Chris Niemann.

A developer that infused life into the Wonder Building on Spokane's North Bank now appears to be considering development of an indoor sports facility in that neighborhood, according to a pre-development application filed with the city.

Despite public safety concerns and challenges associated with homelessness, significant real estate investment in downtown Spokane continues, an indication that investors have an optimistic outlook of the future of the downtown core, an industry

Washington State University is envisioning a new medical training facility at the university's Spokane campus, says Eric Smith, director of facilities and capital projects at WSU in Spokane.