Avista Corp. has several big capital projects totaling $235 million in value in various stages of planning and construction this year in the Spokane area. They range from a $1 million gas-line connection replacement project to an $80 million computerized

Catholic Charities of Spokane, a 100-year-old nonprofit that offers social services through Eastern Washington, has opened a retail store called Furnishings for Hope in the historic Stewart's True Value Hardware building, located at 1905 N. Monroe. Th

Following the opening of its $79 million Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences Building on the Riverpoint Campus east of downtown late last year, Washington State University Spokane has started its next master-plan update. The focus of the master plan

The city of Spokane is seeking proposals from engineering firms for design and construction management of an estimated $80 million to $100 million upgrade at the city's Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility sewage-treatment plant. Marlene Feist, th

Sportsman's Warehouse, the Utah-based national outdoor recreation and sporting goods chain, plans to re-enter the Spokane market with a new store to be located at a long-dormant construction site on the North Side. The company has filed a predevelopmen

Dru Hieber, who represents the third generation of her family to own the Bennett Block downtown, says Hieber Properties Inc., is renovating the historic property at the northeast corner Main Avenue and Howard Street with the goal of restoring its vitality

Financial institutions have reduced greatly the amount of repossessed real estate on their books following the Great Recession. Scott Southwick, chief credit officer for Spokane-based Inland Northwest Bank, says nonperforming assets, which include reposs

Landscape architect Len Zickler, a principal in the Spokane office of Tacoma-based AHBL Inc., says the company is seeing more requests to design environmentally friendly infrastructure to manage stormwater drainage. He expects this approach, called low-