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• Commercial Building shifts focus to student housing, education

  September 18, 2011 in Business on Page E1 Spokane’s downtown Commercial Building has been a gritty survivor, a refuge and a home to ambitious dreams. In the mid-1990s its former owners converted the three-story structure on a tough … 9

• Retail, office condos planned for adjacent historic buildings

  January 18, 2008 in Business on Page A8 After sitting vacant, two historic downtown Spokane buildings are slated to receive face lifts. Developers intend to transform the three-story, 23,400-square-foot former Jefferson Hotel, 115 S. Jefferson St., into street-level …

• BlueRay to face eviction suit

  October 5, 2007 in City on Page B1 Blu-ray disc manufacturer BlueRay Technologies Inc. allegedly evicted dozens of poor residents of the downtown Commercial Building illegally, according to a class-action lawsuit a Spokane nonprofit law firm said it …