Spokane-area thrift stores associated with nonprofit organizations say donations are increasing and sales are up, meaning more funding is going to the organizations and causes those stores benefit.

Katerra Inc.'s Spokane Valley cross-laminated timber manufacturing facility has not yet been fully completed, but the Menlo Park, Calif.-based construction, design, and manufacturing company has already delivered its first order in Spokane

Plans to preserve the historic Cheney Depot are moving ahead, and the nonprofit organization supporting its preservation says the building could be moved to a new location as early as this summer.

Construction started last month on the first new fraternity house to be built in a generation at Washington State University's Pullman campus.

Second Harvest Inland Northwest plans to acquire a second warehouse facility, to be called the Wolff Family Child Hunger Solution Center, which it intends to renovate and use for its children's programs.

A two-story, 20,000-square-foot medical office building is planned on the lower South Hill, the architect on the project says.

About 32 years ago, the founders of interior design company Design Source Inc. decided to branch off from the architecture firm under which they'd been employed in order to focus exclusively on design.

A hot residential real estate market has led to an increase in the number of Realtors in the Spokane area, while homes on the market has decreased simultaneously.