The United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 44, of Spokane, has bought two 20,000-square-foot buildings in East Spokane for $1.75 million and plans to move its operations to one of those buildings this summer.Separately, Building

Bio-OriGyn LLC, of Spokane, has received a U.S. patent for its Pre-Seed vaginal lubricant, the companys first consumer product for human infertility. The patent is Bio-OriGyns eighth, but its first U.S. patent for Pre-Seed, says company CEO

Inland Northwest Science and Technology Center, the nonprofit citizens group that has proposed a $30 million-to-$40 million science-and-technology center on the north side of Riverfront Park, appears to be close to clearing an initial Majer, the he

Spokane Valley-based Crown West Realty LLC has acquired an office complex in Phoenix for $2.1 million and says it hopes to invest at least an additional $50 million in real estate there this year.With the most recent acquisition, Crown West, &

Having grown quickly in the Spokane market, Cintas Corp., a Cincinnati-based uniform-rental company, has moved to larger quarters in Spokane Valley and is considering building its own facility here in the future.The big, publicly-traded company

Fasteners Inc., a longtime Spokane-based distributor of nuts, bolts, and screws, is acquiring an even older competitor in Coeur dAlene, the former Bracks Supply. Fasteners is buying the Coeur dAlene businesswhich has been called Valley

A $2.7 million upgrade at Potlatch Corp.s St. Maries, Idaho, lumber and plywood mill is expected to boost productivity and enable the company to make a new product there.Potlatch spokesman Mike Sullivan says the Spokane company expects that a

As owners of 19-month-old Cobalt Cable LLC, a maker of premium audio and video cables, John Coleman and Zia Uddin are happy to debate customers about such geeky technical stuff as resistance, capacitance, and signal loss. At heart, though, they

The new city of Spokane Valley enjoys relatively affordable and newer housing, less poverty than the county as a whole, strong growth in retail sales, and a rising property-tax base.It also, however, could see volatile sales-tax revenue due to

A bold decision three years ago to close its retail paint stores and concentrate on industrial coatings apparently is paying off for Spokane Valley-based United Coatings Manufacturing Inc.Since the shift, the venerable manufacturer has seen its