There was never a better time for Lars Knudsen to realize one of his goals: to buy a home on Lake Sammamish.The 51-year-old financial planner is taking advantage of the battered home market across the Puget Sound region. He has snapped up a a

T. Bailey Inc., of Anacortes, Wash., has begun work under a $1.2 million contract with the city of Spokane to construct a 1.1 million-gallon, 134-foot-high water reservoir on Five Mile Prairie.The city expects that the reservoir will boost water

Bouten Construction Co., of Spokane, has started work on the $9.5 million first phase of the Washington State Veterans Cemetery-Medical Lake, says Richard Cesler, the cemetery's director.The cemetery, which is slated to open next Memorial Day, A

The city of Spokane recently approved a conditional use permit for Spokane-based State Farm Insurance agent Jack Praxel to convert a single-family home into an office for his agency on Spokane's South Hill.Praxel plans to move his office to the

Spokane Rock Products Inc. has won a $724,000 contract with Spokane County to construct a new road just south of Spokane International Airport to help spur future development there. County contract engineer Chad Coles says the work is to begin a

The Spokane Regional Plan Center has bought a 27,000-square-foot building near the Spokane County Fair & Expo Center for $1.5 million and plans to move there within about the next year, says Rita Hildenbrand, the center's director.The nonprofit

Sackett Contracting & Excavating, of Nordman, Idaho, has won a $3.2 million contract to construct the second phase of a wastewater treatment system for the Granite Reeder Water and Sewer District, located in Nordman, about 35 miles north of Priest

Lydig Construction Inc., of Spokane, is the low bidder, at $4 million, for a school construction project in Valley, Wash., about 40 miles north of Spokane. Lydig will build a 17,000-square-foot building for Valley School District 70's Homelink A