After a brief bidding war, Texas real estate investor James F. Cotter has bought the Old City Hall building in downtown Spokane for $7 million, or $115,000 more than the asking price.Dave Black, CEO of Spokane-based Tomlinson Black Commercial it

Though comfortably quiet through much of the late 1990s, Spokanes retail furniture market has been getting a new look recently.Two out-of-state players, Furniture Row Cos. and Hacienda Furniture, have opened stores in the Spokane area, into a

Sullivan Road Business Park LLC, headed by Spokane real estate veteran Robert Bonuccelli, plans to move forward with a 20-acre, $10 million-to-$15 million office and light-industrial park in the Spokane Valley.The park, which is to be called the

An investor group that hopes to develop a $30 million raceway park here is looking at sites for the project in the Coeur dAlene-Post Falls area and on the West Plains after having ruled out an East Spokane site it considered initially.Doug one

The number of home-mortgage foreclosures filed in Spokane County this year is well ahead of last years pace and is on course to top 1,000 for the second straight yearfor just the second time since the county started tracking defaults in after a

MEISolutions.com Inc., a Spokane maker of software for retail transactions, is fighting for survival after two big contracts failed to produce the major jump in revenues the company had projected.In its retrenchment mode, the 17-year-old company

Spokanes escalating fight against methamphetamines has drug an unsuspecting group of victimslandlordsinto the scourge.Law-enforcement authorities expect to bust around 100 methamphetamine labs here this year, and an estimated 90 of are

Gonzaga University says it plans to move forward with an about $4.2 million dormitory complex on the north side of its campus.The project will include construction of two dormitory buildings in the east 600 block of Sharp Avenue, just across the

In the mid-1980s movie The Karate Kid, a wise, old martial-arts instructors first several lessons for his young prodigy involved having the youth perform tedious household tasks, rather than the kicking and punching exercises commonly with to

Left high and dry by a slowdown in the electronics industry, Spokane-area high-tech parts manufacturers have had to chart new courses.Some of the companies have searched extensively elsewhere in the West for new business, a strategy that has off