The city of Spokane has received an offer to buy City Hall.In addition, city officials have talked with a second potential buyer that said it soon will submit an offer to buy the seven-story building, at 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd., and a third

Two national trends are causing demand for warehouse space here to decline, industry observers say.National retailers more frequently are using huge distribution centers to ship their goods nationally or to broad regions, rather than using in &

A company led by longtime Spokane businessman Cyrus Vaughn is developing a retail strip on Spokanes South Hill.The company, Vaughns 57th Avenue LLC, has started work on a 10,000-square-foot multitenant retail center on a three-acre site along

A Chewelah, Wash., businessman and a partner have bought the former Consolidated Freightways terminal in East Spokane and plan to upgrade the facility and lease it to one or more trucking operations.The Chewelah businessman, Donald Morse, who a

Purcell Systems Inc., the Liberty Lake maker of outdoor cabinets for electronics used in the wireless-communications industry, hopes now to use a recent injection of capital to help it penetrate the conventional telephone market and to pursue which

Office vacancies in downtown Spokane have jumped sharply in the last six months and could become more widespread, Spokane-area real estate agents say.With more premium floor space on the market there nowand more becoming for tenants are to to

More than $40 million in subcontract work for the big Spokane Convention Center expansion project will be coming down the pike in the nearing months, with much of it to be awarded this summer. The Spokane Public Facilities District and a joint

The owners of PC Open Inc., a fast-growing electronics equipment manufacturer here, have formed an affiliated company to make computer servers and software for next-generation digital video recording. The new company, Securgen LLC, has begun of

Harold Gilkeys older brother got the first glimpse of his siblings business savvy when Harold was 6 years old.The older Gilkey, Duane, had set up a lemonade stand near the familys home in Livingston, Mont., then turned the operation over

A plan to replace the big Johnson Hall research laboratory at Washington State Universitys Pullman campus has ballooned into a proposed six-building research and education complex that would cost an estimated $333 million.The half-dozen would