Womer & Associates Inc., an architectural and engineering company here, has bought the assets of longtime Spokane structural engineering company Atwood-Hinzman Inc.Womer & Associates, which continues to operate under its name, is moving its the

Crown West Realty LLC, of Spokane Valley, has bought for $16.1 million a two-building office complex in Phoenix. The complex, called Foothills Corporate Centre II, is the eighth property the Spokane company has acquired in the Phoenix area and

Last Feb. 27, Jack Kestell was spending a casual Sunday afternoon shopping at an Ace Hardware store in his T-shirt and jeans when he got the frantic call from his wife, Denise: A fire had started in the basement of the familys South Hill home. at

Omega Pacific Inc., the Airway Heights-based maker of climbing, rescue, and safety equipment, has resumed its efforts to reach the summit, one year after a court ruling left it dangling without a work force. Through what was previously called I

Whitworth College broke ground earlier this month on a $7.8 million dormitory building at the east end of its North Spokane campus. Whitworth spokesman Greg Orwig says the structure will be four stories tall and will have a total of 160 beds in

Spokane developer Steve Schmautz and his wife, Tresa, have bought an office-warehouse building in Spokane Valley thats currently home to InCyte Pathology Inc., and they plan to renovate the structure into a speculative office-retail building the

Greenstone Corp., the big Liberty Lake-based development company, plans to build a 100-home planned-unit development in the Albion Heights neighborhood in southwest Spokane. Jim Frank, president of Greenstone, says the development will be on 22

High-end condominiums in and around downtown Spokane are selling briskly at a couple of projects, and prices of unfinished units are climbing higher in at least one instance.Meantime, more condominium developments are being considered or are in

In the popular 1980s television show The Peoples Court, the host signed off by admonishing viewers not to take the law into their own hands, but instead to, Take them to court.Several years ago, though, more people began staying out a

Prestige Care Inc., of Vancouver, Wash., is planning to build a 22-unit independent-living complex at its Sullivan Park Care Center, in Spokane Valley. Located at the southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Adams Road, the retirement campus a and