A $200,000 federal grant the city of Spokane recently won to help the Hillyard community develop a plan and implementation strategy to clean up industrial areas there could help spur more economic activity, says Teri Stripes, assistant city planner. This

Spokane real estate developer Roger Fruci is planning a multimillion-dollar, 87-unit townhome development on the southeastern edge of Spokane called Bella Terra, which aims to offer natural living without rural sprawl, he says.

Construction is proceeding at a quick pace on a $2.1 medical office building at the Syringa Medical Campus, in Post Falls. Coeur d'Alene-based Young Construction Group of Idaho Inc. is the contractor on the project at the northeast corner of Mullan Aven

The overall property value in Spokane County ticked upward in 2014 for the second consecutive year. The total assessed value, at $38.5 billion, also is within a percentage point of 2009's peak value of $38.8 billion. Byron Hodgson, chief deputy assess

Kootenai County is looking to continue to build on gains it has achieved in active construction projects since the low point of the Great Recession. Projects valued at more than $210 million currently are under construction, permitted, or planned. That d

More than $160 million in new and continuing transportation-related construction projects are slated for 2015 across Spokane County, an increase of $20 million from last year, including continued work on the North Spokane Corridor and several previously d

The overall residential construction market here is projected to be flat or show modest growth this year, but some builders are reporting surprisingly strong demand, particularly since the start of this year, raising hopes for a potentially sharper upturn

Construction in the education sector is poised to ramp up here, with the recent passage of bond measures in several Spokane-area school districts and capital projects under way or planned for area colleges and universities. The capital projects either pla