Even More Good News for Spokane

(There is a lot these days!)

The most recent affordability index (first quarter 2007) is available courtesy of Wells Fargo, and nationally, Spokane is ranked 89. Regionally, she is marked sixth.

According to the Index, about 60% of the market share is considered "affordable" based on the area’s median income. That’s pretty good!

What are you waiting for? Move here! Not moving? It's still a good investment market.

More Good News for the Spokane Area

These are the kinds of stories that are really encouraging.

Post Falls city officials have been contacted separately over the past six months by two development groups that claim they’re interested in constructing large, destination-type venues either in the North Idaho city or across the border in Spokane County.

The property they are eyeing in Post Falls includes about 150 acres of land just south of Interstate 90 near the Spokane River, south of a 125,000-square-foot sporting-goods store that Sydney, Neb.-based Cabela’s Inc. currently is building. The three land owners there are Hanson Industries Inc., of Spokane Valley; Green Group Inc., of Tuscaloosa, Ala, which owns the Greyhound Park & Event Center there; and Jacklin Seed by Simplot Inc., a subsidiary of Boise, Idaho-based Simplot Corp.

H/T ActiveRain.

There will be those concerned about growth and its impact, but as a friend of ours likes to say, "Progress is hard, but regress is harder."