Spokane developer and architect Ron Wells says Wells & Co., which he heads, is close to buying the Fairmont Apartments building downtown and hopes to convert the gutted six-story structure into an upscale office building with retail space on the by

Bed, Bath & Beyond Inc., a New Jersey-based home merchandise and furnishings retailer, is close to securing space at Franklin Park Mall for its first store in the Spokane area, says Lance Taylor, a Dallas-based development partner with P.OB. & &

MSC incorporated as Premera Blue Cross, one of Eastern Washingtons biggest health insurers, has leased the entire third floor of the nearly completed Northpointe Office Building on Spokanes North Side for expansion of its operations here.The

A few years ago, commercial builder Jim Elmer gave good friend Ken Scott some scrap wood for a nebulous experiment, and Scott more than returned the favor by creating what would become the foundation of a new business venture for the two long-time

Avista Advantage Inc., an Internet-based billing and information-management company here, has a new home for its quickly growing corporate headquarters and Spokane operations center. The company, which is a subsidiary of Spokane-based Avista has

Cisco Systems Inc., the huge San Jose, Calif.-based Internet network-systems company, plans to move its Spokane regional office into a bigger space soon in anticipation of substantial growth here over the next five years.Mike Peterson, who the a

Paras General Contractors Inc., of Spokane, has landed a contract to build a $6 million, 155,000-square-foot plant building at Liberty Lake for Accra-Fab Inc., the Spokane-based precision sheet metal fabricator.Tina Paras, spokeswoman for Paras

A handful of developers have revived projects in the Latah Creek area in Southwest Spokane, where, they say, lies the largest amount of available, undeveloped residential land within the city of Spokane.Four developers are hoping to bring a of a

AT&T Media Services, the advertising sales and production arm of AT&T Cable Services, plans to move its offices to downtown Spokane from the cable companys main facility here at 1717 E. Buckeye in East Spokane.The media-services unit, which 18

P.OB. Montgomery & Co., a Dallas-based real estate company that owns Franklin Park Mall here, has started an interior demolition in part of the North Side retail center to make room for an unnamed big national retailer.Lance Taylor, a partner