CPM Development Corp., of Spokane Valley, which owns Central Pre-Mix Concrete Co. and Inland Asphalt Co. here, has extended its reach farther west by acquiring the names and assets of several operations owned by Salem, Ore.-based J.C. Compton this

Community Frameworks, a Spokane, nonprofit affordable-housing provider, has bought a building that formerly housed a nursing home on the South Hill near downtown, and plans to convert it into a cooperative housing project.Community Frameworks a

Mead School District says its in the final stages of planning for a new middle school that will replace one of its current schools and will cost an estimated $31 million.The district hopes to secure $12.5 million in state funding later this a

Spokane architect Glen A. Cloninger is reintroducing his vision for development of the city block just south of the Spokane Convention Center, where the next generation of convention center expansion is expected to occur. The Spokane Public to

Kent and Cal Clausen, two brothers here who have been developing hotels since the early 1990s, plan to open a hotel in Coeur dAlene soon, as well as three other new lodging facilities in Western Washington, Montana, and Nevada, all within the two

A planned $8.4 million complex is one of two low-income housing projects to which Spokane Countys housing and community development department recently awarded a total of nearly $1 million in federal funds.The county awarded $200,000 to this

Mead School District has awarded a roughly $12.8 million contract to Spokane-based Northwestern Construction of Washington Inc. to build a new elementary school on the Five Mile Prairie.The 59,000-square-foot school, which will have a partial a

The Spokane-area economy has added more jobs in the first five months of 2006 than it did during the year-earlier period, when it also turned in a strong performance.An average of 6,240 more people were employed in nonagricultural wage and here

After two years of unprecedented increases in the dollar volume of construction and five years of growth in the number of homes sold in the Spokane area, both numbers are declining so far here in 2006. Industry sources point out, however, that

The owners of Sun Dance Golf Course, located northwest of Spokane, have negotiated a sale of the course to Spokane couple Ron and Jill McIntire.The McIntires plan to keep Sun Dance, located at 9725 N. Nine Mile Road, open, and hope to convert a