Half of the people who bought homes in Spokane and Kootenai counties last year had lived in the area less than two years, and about a quarter of those people moved here to be near their families, not for job-related reasons.Furthermore, while to

Welch Comer & Associates Inc., a consulting civil engineering company based in Coeur dAlene, is opening a 12-person office in Liberty Lake. For its new office, the company will lease about 2,000 square feet of space in a new building at 2310

The development team thats pursuing a proposed $50 million-plus office tower in downtown Spokane is working to cut estimated costs enough to ensure the project is viable, and hopes to move forward with construction design this summer.Were to

Two companies owned partly by Spokane developer Steve Schmautz plan to develop two professional buildings in the Liberty Lake area that together are expected to cost about $3.6 million. Work is expected to get under way on both buildings by May,

Garco Development Services, of Spokane, is developing a speculative, 36,000-square-foot industrial building at Liberty Lake for a California investor.The two-story, concrete-walled structure is being erected at the far east end of Metropolitan &

Schweitzer Mountain Resort, located near Sandpoint, is drawing up plans to install a second high-speed, six-person chairlift on the ski hill this summer, although it wont decide whether to do so until April. The proposed $3.2 million project a

A proposed retail strip center west of the Spokane Valley Mall might house T.J. Maxx, Sportsmans Warehouse, and Linens n Things outlets, according to a grading-permit application that Salt Lake City-based mall owner JP Realty Inc. has filed in

Michael Nowling, who last month resigned his post as president of the Heart Institute of Spokane, has signed a letter of intent to buy the assets of Family Home Care, a Spokane home health-care provider with nearly 200 employees.Nowling has to &

A Spokane developer has agreed to buy the former Louisiana-Pacific Corp. mill site in Post Falls for $1.7 million, the real estate broker who is handling the planned transaction says.The Hayden Lake-based broker, Bill Robinette, of Coeur Banker

BFGoodrich Aerospace, a division of the big Charlotte, N.C.-based BFGoodrich Co. that makes carbon brake disks for aircraft brakes at its West Plains plant, expects to double its employment here this year to more than 100 employees.Ben Duncan, a