Vandervert Construction Inc. has started building a Lowes Cos. home-improvement store in Spokane Valley and a Numerica Credit Union branch in Airway Heights in contracts worth a combined total of about $12.4 million.Meanwhile, the contractor

Phase 1 Physical Therapy LLC, of Suncrest, has begun site work for a planned $1 million building that will house its offices and Suncrest Fitness Inc., a new membership-based fitness center, says owner Joel San Nicolas. San Nicolas says he to 1

Engineering work has begun for a planned new freeway interchange that would serve the big Cabelas Inc. sporting goods store thats under construction on the west edge of Post Falls.Dave Larsen, who heads up Idaho projects for Spokane-based a

Former rental homes on a block just east of the Fred Meyer Stores outlet at Fourth Avenue and Thor Street have been vacated recently, and the landowner says shes planning to clear the property to make room for a possible commercial project is by

The number of new lots platted in Spokane County shot up by almost 23 percent last year to reach its highest total since at least 1976.Some 3,087 lots were platted in the county in 2006, up from 2,515 lots in 2005 and 2,574 lots in 2004, says a

Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, has won a $29.4 million design-build contract for a new U.S. Army Reserve center at Fairchild Air Force Base, says company President James T. Tim Welsh. The project will include six buildings, five of be

Next month, Ambassadors Group Inc. will move into its new, 132,000-square-foot headquarters building on the West Plains, more than doubling the amount of space it occupies now in East Spokane.Doubling is a word the Spokane-based educational it

As Spokanes labor market continues to tighten, employers are left struggling to find workers, and are stepping up their recruiting efforts as a result.The labor shortage spans a broad spectrum of industries. Manufacturers and contractors are

After working for Northeast Washington Housing Solutions, formerly Spokane Housing Authority, for two years and seven months, Jeannie Barber just became a permanent full-time employee. Before then, her employment outlook wasnt as rosy.In of a

MBK Senior Living, an Irvin, Calif.-based company, has bought Northpointe Retirement Community for about $15 million from SL Start LLC, of Spokane, and several other investors. The transaction represents the end of a decade of retirement center for