The city of Spokane plans to phase in a new commercial permitting application process that it says should speed up the time it takes to issue such permits.Under the new process, applicants for commercial permit plan reviews will be asked to to

A West Side company plans to develop a 50-lot residential development northeast of Park Road and Eighth Avenue, in Spokane Valley, that will be aimed at independent seniors.The company, Burlington, Wash.-based Landed Gentry Homes & Communities

A California developer has broken ground on a planned $28 million project at the Sandpoint Airport that will include 44 fly-in residences as well as commercial and aviation-services buildings. To be called SilverWing at Sandpoint, the is

Spokane-based Lydig Construction Inc. has landed three big projects around the state that have a combined value of more than $150 million.Lydig was expected to start work this week on one of the projects, a $66.5 million new high school near is

Inland Northwest new-home buyers, especially those moving here from other metropolitan areas, are starting to ask home builders for greener homes.Their requests have been heard by enough contractors that the Spokane Home Builders (SHBA), in

The owner of Isabellas Restaurant & Gin Joint says he plans to open a jazz club at 22 W. Main, across the street from his restaurant, around the end of November.The owner, William Webster, says the new nightclub, to be called Zula, will what

Lukins & Annis PS, one of Spokanes largest law firms, is growing again after the departure of a quarter of its attorneys over the past year, says Jed Morris, the longtime firms president.The firm recently hired two associates and now has a

Potlatch Corp., the big Spokane-based forest products company, has leased two floors of the Wells Fargo Center downtown and is moving its corporate headquarters there from a smaller space to make room for 25 key managers in its finance group who of

A Kootenai County transportation planning organizations recent decision to recommend a route for a proposed expressway that would divert traffic off of the highly used stretch of U.S. 95 north of Interstate 90 has triggered land-use planning for

Spokane surgeon has begun performing cancer-related hysterectomies here using a minimally invasive laparoscopic procedure that has been used in non-cancer-related hysterectomies and a host of other surgeries for years.The surgeon, Dr. Melanie a