Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has launched work on a big retail store at Shadle Center, the first of two megastores that the Bentonville, Ark.-based retail giant plans on Spokanes North Side.CSI Construction Inc., a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based has to

A group of investors that includes Spokane architect Glen A. Cloninger and downtown property owner K. Wendell Reugh is proposing a $50 million high-rise office tower to be built at one of two sites in the city center. The envisioned project is a

Brian and Judy Jorgensen, a Post Falls couple that owns a small North Idaho chain of pharmacies called Medicine Man Pharmacy Inc., plans to develop a $1.5 million retail center at Liberty Lake.The couple has applied for a building permit from to

Safeway Stores Inc., of Pleasanton, Calif., has agreed to lease a proposed supermarket space at a planned $9 million retail center in the Hillyard area of northeast Spokaneand close a nearby store, developer Jim Gallaugher says.Gallaugher, who

Jackson Five LLC, a company established by Spokane businessmen Steve Schmautz and Bill Lawson, has bought just over five acres of land at Liberty Lake Center and plans to construct two office buildings there worth a combined $6 million. The is &

Mumms The Word Inc., a Spokane-based crafts-publishing and art-design company here headed by country-style designer Debbie Mumm, is expanding its facility on Spokanes North Side to accommodate dramatic growth experienced this year.Steve the

Despite indications that some new stores planned by Rite Aid Corp. elsewhere are being halted or delayed, two new North Spokane outlets for the Camp Hill, Pa.-based drug-store chain are expected to proceed, say Spokane developers who are working on

If Ted Pulver walks into your office with his leisurely smile and chummy handshake, someone has hired him to be there, and someone may have broken the law.It could be you. It could be a colleague. Whoever it is, Pulver is there to find out what

Rahco International Inc., the Spokane-based industrial manufacturer, has landed a $5 million contract with the U.S. Department of Energy to design and develop a system for containing potentially harmful waste at landfills.Rahco has started work

National Refractories & Minerals Corp., a Livermore, Calif.-based manufacturer of heat-resistant materials for industrial furnaces, has leased space in the Spokane Valley for a regional distribution center.The new distribution center is located