Workforce retirements and growing demand for services are pressuring some manufacturers here to find alternatives to hiring skilled workers by creating internal workforce-development programs, company leaders say. Business operations for many

Farwest Steel Corp., a Eugene, Oregon-based metal supplier, is preparing to construct a new $6.8 million industrial building in North Idaho, according to application information for a building permit that was issued last month by the city of Post Falls.

Manufacturing of commercial aircraft components is beginning to pick up again after years of low production rates here, some Inland Northwest aerospace companies say.

The Renton, Washington-based office of Panattoni Development Co. is behind two Spokane-area distribution center developments valued at $63 million combined. One is the $46 million, three-building West Plains Logistics complex planned on a 10-acre site

Separate manufacturing facilities are under construction in the east and west areas of Spokane. Pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging company Jubilant HollisterStier LLC obtained building permits in September to begin the first of two expansion

Lakeside Companies, a Spokane-based real estate investment company, has scuttled plans to develop a coworking complex at the former Triumph Composite Systems Inc. property, at 1514 S. Flint, in west Spokane, says Lakeside marketing director Maria Lusardi.