Bellevue-based development company Tapa Spokane LLC has started site work on a planned eight-lot, 10-acre business park in Spokane Valley, and has obtained building permits to construct two single-use buildings valued at $2 million combined. The developm

Kootenai County has bought the former Daughters of Rebekah/Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge building at 200 E. Railroad, in Post Falls, where it plans to expand a Division of Motor Vehicles office, says Shawn Riley, the county buildings and grounds

The city of Spokane is preparing to take over planning jurisdiction for a $12 million retail development proposed on land on the upper South Hill that was recently annexed into the city. The first phase of the development, however, likely will be review

Post Falls-based Community 1st Bank reported increases in total assets and deposits for the bank's second quarter, while net income was comparable and net loans declined 3 percent compared with the year-earlier period. David Bobbitt, chairman and CEO o

A Howard Johnson hotel franchisee is fanning new life into the long-vacant Trade Winds Motor Inn on the southwest corner of Third Avenue and Lincoln Street downtown. David Malik, a principal in Portland-based franchisee Comfort Hospitality LLC, says he l