Developers of the 184-unit Granite Pointe III apartment complex in Spokane Valley are constructing a 7,000-square-foot retail center that will front Mansfield Avenue and will be surrounded on three sides by apartment buildings. The Granite Pointe III pro

General Growth Properties Inc., the Chicago-based company that owns and operates both the NorthTown Mall and Spokane Valley Mall here, has reported an increase in fourth-quarter earnings compared with the year-earlier period. The company posted fourth-q

North 40 Outfitters, the Great Falls, Mont.-based chain of farm-and-ranch stores, is considering constructing a new store on the western edge of Spokane, less than a mile from vacant land the company bought more than four years ago in Airway Heights. Dre

Leslie Stansbury, owner of Grrs 'n' Purrs Grooming Inc., plans to make her current location her last. Stansbury and her husband, Dan Stansbury, recently developed an 1,800-square-foot building at 212 W. South in Deer Park to house the 25-year-old pet

Portland-based food distributor and warehouse market Cash&Carry Smart Foodservice is erecting its first North Idaho store in Coeur d'Alene. Cash&Carry obtained a building permit to erect the $1.8 million building in mid-December and hopes to open the C

As has been the case for a couple of years now, retailers here are again predicting sales growth for 2017. However, some of industry representatives and observers interviewed are skeptical as to how long this period of gains will continue. Grant Forsyth