A Canadian developer has requested a zone change from Kootenai County to make way for an envisioned subdivision and golf course on 227 acres overlooking Arrow Point, on Lake Coeur dAlene.Little information about the company, Fortress LLC, is

Theres a boom in new-home construction on the west side, Spokane-area construction and real estate professionals say, and they arent talking about Seattle.The West Plains, known mostly for its Air Force base, prisons, and scattered is a

St. Georges School says it hopes to break ground by early summer on a $6 million athletic center at the small private schools campus north of Spokane.Pat Spanjer, spokeswoman for St. Georges, says the planned 26,000-square-foot structure

Just as the Inland Northwest economy has shown signs of getting off the ground again, soaring building-materials prices threaten to clip its wings.Steel prices have risen sharply in recent months, and Spokane-area companies that do business in

Montvale Hotel LLC, a company controlled by Spokane developer Rob Brewster Jr., is moving forward with plans to renovate part of the Montvale Block building downtown into a 36-room hotel.The city of Spokane issued a building permit for the this

Spokanes two GMC vehicle dealers essentially have added each others additional General Motors makes, as part of a national strategy.Last week, Becker Buick-GMC Inc. began carrying Pontiacs at its main location at 636 E. Sprague, and at its

Silver Mountain Corp., the Redmond, Ore.-based operator of Silver Mountain Ski & Summer Resort, has bought the 1,500 acres of ski terrain on which its resort near Kellogg, Idaho, is located.Separately, the company plans to start work this on a

With nearly all of its living units currently occupied, Fairwood Retirement Village & Assisted Living is eyeing $7.1 million in expansion projects at its campus on Spokanes North Side. Sam Knutson, manager of Fairwood Village, says the plans

Downtown Spokanes once airtight Class-A office market has loosened considerably as the Metropolitan Financial Center has gone from fully occupied to 21 percent vacant in 16 months time.Now, the real estate industry here is speculating about

Swallowable cameras the size of large vitamin pills are helping physicians diagnose problems in parts of the gastrointestinal tract that they previously had difficulty analyzing.The technology is called capsule endoscopy and involves a camera a