MetaXpert LLC, of Spokane Valley, the parent company of Tometa Sofware Inc., which develops custom software, has leased 2,500 square feet of office space at 2310 N. Molter and has moved there from smaller quarters at 6614 E. Main. Marc Mowrer, of &

J.C. Penney Co., the big Plano Texas-based retailer, has applied for a building permit for a $750,000 remodel of its NorthTown Mall department store.The company's corporate office referred a reporter to the store's managers, who said they ready

The U.S. Forest Service plans to construct a new office for its Sandpoint Ranger District on Forest Service property at 1602 Ontario, in Sandpoint, Idaho.Swank Enterprises, of Kalispell, Mont., has been awarded a $3.1 million contract to the It

The city of Spokane has issued an environmental approval for two remaining phases in a planned $6 million city project to extend a paved link from the Centennial Trail in West Spokane to the trailhead of the Columbia Plateau Trail at Fish Lake, of

Sackett Contracting & Excavating, of Nordman, Idaho, is the apparent low bidder, with a bid of $1.6 million, for a city of Cheney contract to make infrastructure improvements to the 38-acre Cheney Research & Industrial Park, which the city is with

Spokane-based Washington Trust Bank reported sharply lower earnings for 2008, but says its loans, deposits, and assets all continued to grow at a healthy pace, despite the financial trauma that's plaguing the banking industry nationally.The held

Rite Aid Corp., the Camp Hill, Pa.-based pharmacy and retail store chain, plans to move a store it operates at the northwest corner of Pines Road and Sprague Avenue in Spokane Valley to a $2.3 million building that a developer here says he will for

Remodels are currently under way at two Albertsons Inc. grocery stores here—one on the South Hill and one in Spokane Valley.The 56,000-square-foot store that's being remodeled in Spokane Valley, at 13606 E. 32nd, will have a Starbucks Corp.

The owners of Savage Land Pizza plan to reopen the longtime Spokane Valley family restaurant in mid-May, about a year after it was destroyed by a suspected arson-caused blaze.Pamela Veach-LaRochelle, who owns the business with her husband, Ian a

Kootenai County has awarded a $4.7 million contract to Sommer Construction Inc., of Nampa, Idaho, to expand its Kootenai County Farm Landfill operation by 14 acres. Roger Saterfiel, director of the county's solid waste department, says a highly