The Coeur d'Alene Tribal Housing Authority, acting as its own contractor, has started work on a $4 million, 18-unit multifamily housing project in North Idaho that will include the use of straw bales in its construction.The project is the first

Raab Chiropractic LLC, of Spokane, has leased 1,400 square feet of office space in a retail center anchored by Hancock Fabrics, at 1020 W. Francis, and plans to move there in October from 515 W. Francis. Guy D. Byrd, of Cornerstone Property LLC, of

The Spokane Home Builders Association's sixth annual Fall Festival of home is slated over the next two three-day weekends.The free, scattered-site event will include homes built this year in the Spokane area using the latest in construction and

Longtime North Idaho real estate agent Kelly Hanson says he has obtained a broker's license and is operating Your Next Castle Real Estate, a new independent agency, out of his Hayden home at 650 Peachtree Drive.Three other agents who have 15 of

Pool World Inc., a longtime Spokane Valley-based swimming pool contractor and multistore retailer, says it has bought a building about a half-mile east of its 4808 E. Sprague store and plans to move that outlet there in January.The newly at E.

Hospice of North Idaho says it has broken ground on a $4.2 million Hospice House facility in Coeur d'Alene.Contractors Northwest Inc., of Coeur d'Alene, is the contractor on the project, which will include a 14,000-square-foot structure that 10

James W. Elmer Construction Co., of Spokane, has started construction of a $1.1 million training tower for Kootenai County Fire and Rescue, in Post Falls, the fire district says.The five-story tower, with an attached two-story mock residential a

Spokane Mental Health has secured most of the funding it needs to construct a 14-unit apartment building that will house people with mental disabilities, says Spokane-based real estate firm Goodale & Barbieri Co., which is overseeing the Rogers, of

The Walla Walla Housing Authority has selected Walker Construction Inc., of Spokane, as the contractor on an $8.5 million housing project near Walla Walla, Wash., says Jon Barter, a project manager for Walker.The project, to be called Walla will