Two projects with up to $20 million in work are scheduled to get under way early this year in the northern half of the planned North Spokane Corridor, known informally as the north-south freeway.One project involves removing earth and grading a

Wheatland Bank, of Spokane, plans to move its downtown branch to a more prominent location in the same building and also plans to move its corporate headquarters there formally.Susan Horton, Wheatlands chairwoman, president, and CEO, says the

An expressway to the information superhighway might come to Spokane within a year.An Eastern Washington consortium wants to light up an extremely high-speed, large-bandwidth fiber-optic network between Spokane and Seattle and establish a hub of

A crush of apartment construction is under way in the Spokane area, following relatively little activity in that building sector in recent years. Spokane County and the city of Spokane issued building permits for $93.1 million in multifamily up

Foothills Auto Group, of Spokane, is converting the east end of its Foothills Lincoln-Mercury Mazda dealership building into a new Mazda showroom.Chris Marr, vice president of Foothills Auto, says work started last month at the North Side on to

WAM Enterprises Inc., of Spokane, has agreed to buy the Deer Park Fairgrounds and is envisioning a mixed-use development at the 12-acre site.Meanwhile, the city of Deer Park is working with the Deer Park Fair Board to relocate the fairgrounds,

Boosted by some big-ticket projects and continued strength in residential construction, building permit activity in the Spokane area has surged this year.Through the first 11 months of 2004, the city of Spokane, city of Spokane Valley, and for

Robert Daugherty had been offered the top post at California Savings Bank and was house-hunting in San Francisco earlier this year when he got a call about the president and CEO posts at Spokane-based AmericanWest Bancorp.Soon thereafter, he at

The Spokane Transit Authority hopes to start construction next month of a $1.25 million park-and-ride facility on Spokanes South Hill.The lot, which would provide space for bus riders to park their cars while they take STA buses to downtown a

A company headed by prominent Spokane developer Dick Vandervert is building a $12 million, 192-unit apartment complex in Liberty Lake.Site work for the project started last month at the southeast corner of Country Vista Drive and Henry Road, in