A real estate investment group headed by Spokane businessman Joe Harwood recently bought three buildings downtown that either are being remodeled or will be renovated soon.The transactions involve the former House of Charity building, on the of

Fairchild Air Force Base is proposing to build a $10 million to $15 million central deployment center on base, and is asking that funding for that project be included in the federal governments fiscal 2002 budget.Lee Paul, chief engineer at a

Baney Corp., a Bend, Ore.-based hotel developer, has begun construction of a new Oxford Suites hotel along the north bank of the Spokane River near downtown Spokane.Bruce Sleep, a project supervisor for Baney, says that the hotel, which is being

Greenstone Corp., a Spokane-based development and construction company, plans to build a $2.5 million office structure at Liberty Lake and consolidate its offices there next year.The project still is being designed, so some details havent been

Developers of the Cedar Canyon Village shopping center on Spokanes South Hill have started construction of a 116-unit apartment complex, called Cedar Canyon Villas, just east of the big shopping center along 57th Avenue.Rich Naccarato, who his

Avista Laboratories Inc., Avista Corp.s Spokane-based technology-development company thats commonly referred to as Avista Labs, plans to move its operations into a former Itron Inc. office-and-manufacturing building in the Spokane Business & in

Tech Group Inc., a Spokane-based company that provides temporary staffing for hospitals nationwide, has bought the former Integrus Architecture PS building in downtown Spokane.Royce Drye, president and CEO of Tech Group, says the company plans &

Early in Linda Kunzs career as a paralegal secretary, when she barely knew the difference between a plaintiff and a defendant, her organizational skills were about all that kept her afloat in the legal community.Thirty years later, armed with

The Wolff Cos., long one of the most prolific apartment-complex operators in the Spokane area, is establishing itself as a major player in the Las Vegas and Boise markets, with more than $100 million in rental-property acquisitions and new planned

Fred Meyer Stores Inc., of Portland, has started construction of a two-story, $20 million retail outlet at the southwest corner of Third Avenue and Thor Street in east central Spokane.Rob Boley, Portland-based spokesman for Fred Meyer, says the