New ordinances passed by the Spokane City Council are intended to pave the way for safer housing for renters, but some lawyers here disagree about what kind of impacts the new rules will have on their legal practices.

Spokane-based nonprofit Excelsior Wellness Center LLC has started the first of three phases of renovations at its campus with a focus on integrating trauma-informed design, an emerging concept within architectural design.

Spokane-based Contract Design Associates Inc., a 43-year-old commercial furniture dealership, has relocated recently into a 16,000-square-foot space in the former Spokesman-Review production building, at 1 N. Monroe downtown.

Construction has started on over two dozen single-family homes in Greenstone Corp.'s planned $15 million Garden District community on Spokane's South Hill. Jim Frank, founder and CEO of Liberty-Lake-based Greenstone, says about 30 homes are

Alturas Capital Partners LLC, a commercial real estate investment company based in Eagle, Idaho, has purchased the Rock Pointe West corporate office campus, located near the growing North Bank district in Spokane.

Spokane-based property technology company Collabra Technology Inc. has developed a new tool for real estate professionals to measure their online presence and to grow their digital marketing capabilities, says Collabra CEO Russ Cofano.

A&A Construction & Development Inc., of Spokane, is constructing a new urban center in Post Falls. Once completed, the 32-acre Millworx development a few blocks east of City Hall will have about 685 living units in 615,000 square feet of residential

Seven professionals from the real estate, education, and professional fields will be honored in the Journal's class of 2023 Icons. This year's Icons are: • Cher and Jim Desautel, founders of what's now the DH public relations firm.

Mark Bray, 61, retired from his chief financial officer role from Spokane Valley-based Lydig Construction Inc. on Dec. 31. Bray joined Lydig Construction in June of 1994 as the company's controller. In 1998, two years after the company's founder

The historic Peyton Building, located at 10 N. Post in downtown Spokane, has been purchased by a group of investors led by developer Jordan Tampien, who plan to convert the seven-story structure from office use to 96 residential units.