National Church Residences, a Columbus, Ohio-based nonprofit that develops low-income senior housing, plans to develop a new senior-housing facility in Deer Park and expand two complexes it currently operates in Spokane Valley. The total cost a

And residential real estate agents thought 2002 was a good year.Home sales activity reported in 2003 through the Spokane Multiple Listing Service broke records for a second consecutive year, as activity and average home prices both surged to to

As the sun starts to set on Saturday nights in the summertime, Jim Frank frequently can be found at the city of Liberty Lakes Pavilion Park.People, mostly neighbors of the park, start to spread blankets and set up lawn chairs on the parks a

A Los Angeles-based boat-products wholesaler, Diversified Marine Products, plans to open a Northwest distribution center at the Spokane Business & Industrial Park. Separately, two other companies, Tukwila, Wash.-based hardwood-flooring Co. and

A hardware retailer here that opened an Ace Hardware store on the South Hill in 2002 plans to open its second Spokane-area store.The company, Jant Group II Inc., has leased a 17,500-square-foot former Rite Aid Corp. store building at the corner

A company headed by Spokane developer Rob Brewster Jr. has bought the former Twenty-Four Frames Cinema building in Cheney and plans to convert it into a restaurant and bar. The company, Selkirk Trading LLC, purchased the 93-year-old building is

YMCA of the Inland Northwest has agreed to buy a 15.9-acre parcel of land north of Spokane on which the organization hopes to develop a North Side facility for the metropolitan area.Rig Riggins, president and CEO of the Spokane nonprofit says

Companies headed by three prominent Spokane developersDick Vandervert, Rich Naccarato, and Craig Condronare preparing to move forward with major projects on 140 acres of vacant land on the West Plains. Buildings in the three projectsa $20

Fred Brown believes he has lassoed a big one.The calf roper-turned-software entrepreneur formed Next IT Corp. here last year and soon after acquired Spectre AI Inc., a then-2-year-old artificial-intelligence software developer here founded in a

Steve Terry points to a cleaning device propped behind the door of his office at Deaconess Medical Center.Its called a mega mop, and Terry contends it cleans faster and more thoroughly than a conventional cloth mop, which means Deaconess can