Retail growth is at a standstill along some corridors in the Spokane Valley, and the vacancy rate for retail property there is higher than in most other parts of the Spokane area.Though Costco Wholesale Corp. has said its looking at moving its

Crown West Realty LLC, which owns and manages the 600-acre Spokane Business & Industrial Park in the Spokane Valley, plans to demolish an office building it occupies at the parks northern entrance and erect a larger, multitenant structure in its

Walgreens Co., of Deerfield, Ill., has leased part of the former Huckleberrys Fresh Market building in the Spokane Valley and plans to open a Walgreens Pharmacy there, says a real estate executive whos involved in the transaction.The Jim an

The number of foreclosures in Spokane County last year jumped for the fourth straight year and exceeded 800 for the first time since an extended real estate slump in the late 1980s.Kootenai County saw an increase for a third straight year and,

Merrily Bjerkestrand sips soup silently. She cuts her salad greens into petite portions and tears off bite-sized bits of a breadstick with her fingers instead of her teeth. Across from her, I put my elbows on the table faster than you can spell

Quite literally, the groundwork is being laid in the Spokane area for the in-home communication networks of the future.Custom-home builder Sullivan Homes Inc. and start-up technology manufacturer World Wide Packets Inc., both of Spokane, are up

A 57,000-square-foot, office-and-warehouse building is being proposed in the Spokane Valley for Parrott Mechanical Inc., a Coeur dAlene-based heating and air-conditioning contractor, Spokane County records say.The proposed building would be at

Costco Wholesale Corp., the big Issaquah, Wash.-based membership warehouse chain, has agreed to buy land in the Spokane Valley from Home Depot USA Inc. and hopes to build a new, bigger store there to replace its outlet at the periphery of downtown

Consoer Townsend Envirodyne Engineers Inc., a large, Chicago-based engineering and consulting company, has opened a small branch office near downtown Spokane and plans to expand its presence here in the next few years.The company has leased and

Developers are moving forward with a $3 million expansion at Liberty Lake Town Center, motivated by a flurry of leasing activity for a shopping center under construction across the street.Design work already is under way on the expansion at Lake