Employers who enable workers to have some say in shaping their work schedules are more likely to retain them, Spokane-area advocates of the flexible workplace concept say.Flexible work schedules enable employees to maintain a healthy their

Three longtime Inland Northwest waterfront real estate specialists have jumped ship and are now operating under a newly formed company called Century 21-Beutler Waterfront, says Bill Fanning, the broker at the new company and one of the agents who

In the half-century that Spokane specialty contractor Dix Corp. has been taking on unusual and risky construction projects, the only thing thats become routine at the company is family involvement.Founded here 60 years ago by Peter Dix as a a

A 164-acre parcel of former agricultural land in Hayden, Idaho, is on the market for $30 million, a price the Kootenai County Assessors Office says could be a record for a real estate deal in the county in terms of dollar value. The parcel, a

Big commercial projects have propped up construction-sector volume here during the first four months of this year, despite a drop in building permits for new homes to a level not seen since 2001.Total permit valuations, including those for both

Coldwater Creek Inc. says it has put on hold completion of a planned $9 million office structure it began building in Coeur dAlene early this year and also has scaled back its retail-store expansion plans amid a continuing softness in the apparel

Sullivan Homes Inc., of Spokane Valley, one of the top builders of single-family homes here in recent years, plans to stop taking on new projects so its owner can retire from the company.Meanwhile, three managers at the company have formed a a

Spokane-based Wells & Co., two California companies, and a Denver concern all have submitted proposals for the possible redevelopment of all or parts of a 3.5-acre chunk of land in the Riverpoint Campus east of downtown.Washington State sought

Mummified cats and spoiled seafood notwithstanding, Keith Becker and Jon Reisinger say theyre happy to pick up other peoples garbage and junkand theyre proud to say that more than a third of what they pick up has a chance at a second two of

Macys Inc., the big New York-based retailer, plans to remodel its Macys department store at the Silver Lake Mall in north Coeur dAlene, where it will add nearly 8,000 square feet of retail space to its 44,000-square-foot outlet.For the in