Construction started this month on a new $2 million, 7,000-square-foot North Idaho Eye Institute PA building, at 8378 N. Government Way, in Hayden, says Brittany Garnett, office administrator for Meridian Construction & Development, of Spokane Valley, the

Open Doors Emergency Homeless Family Shelter has entered into an agreement to move its existing shelter to a larger space at 2002 E. Mission, says Steve Allen, executive director of Family Promise of Spokane, which runs the shelter.

New equipment, software, and technology in the recently rebuilt interventional radiology suite at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, in Spokane, will aid in administering the latest in treatment techniques that can preserve brain functions in areas a

Two Spokane-area horse-centered nonprofits have new programs in the works here. Last week, Free Rein Therapeutic Riding, of Spokane, launched The Equus Effect, a Connecticut-based equine therapy program, says John Owen, executive director of Free Rein.

L.B. Stone Properties Group LLC, developer of East Spokane's Playfair Commerce Park, is adding three buildings totaling 234,000 square feet of space at the steadily growing industrial park.