A new hotel-development company here called JGDR LLC is developing a 71-unit Comfort Inn hotel in the Liberty Lake area.Site work for the project started a few months ago, and the entire three-story structure is expected to be completed and open

Shea Construction Inc., one of Spokanes largest general contractors, is cutting its work force after suffering losses on some major recent projects, says David Shea, its founder and president.Rumors that Shea Construction might close after it

In the near future, scores of young children might never discover that a scrapped refrigerator box makes a great playhouse, or that a few blankets draped between couches create a perfectly functional fortress.Those kids will use Kinder Timber, a

Itronix Corp., of Spokane, is projecting substantial growth in fiscal year 2002 after recently ending its 2001 fiscal year with a record backlog of new orders.The manufacturer of durable wireless computers is armed with a couple of new products

The Washington state Department of Transportation wants to exchange a parcel of land on Spokanes North Side that has strong development potential for construction of a building in the Spokane Valley and for a project north of Spokane.The swap

MSC/Premera Blue Cross, one of Eastern Washingtons largest health insurers, has started work on a $1.7 million remodeling project at its main office complex.The complex, which is located at 3900 E. Sprague, includes two buildings with a total

Spokane businessman Kert Carlson has formed a nonprofit corporation named Sports USA through which he hopes to develop and operate an $8 million-to-$10 million sports complex in the Spokane Valley. The project is in the predesign stage, and the

B-4 Properties LLC, a company here owned by Spokane contractor Eric Brown and his wife, Lisa, plans to develop a business park on five acres in the Spokane Valley.The development, which is to be named Woodruff Business Park, will be located at &

Spokane United Methodist Homes Inc., a nonprofit corporation that operates Rockwood Retirement Communities here, plans to develop a $6 million-to-$7 million addition to its Rockwood Forest Estates independent-living subdivision on Spokanes South

Two companies owned partly by Spokane developer Steve Schmautz plan to develop two professional buildings in the Liberty Lake area that together are expected to cost about $3.6 million. Work is expected to get under way on both buildings by May,