As a youth in Tacoma, Larry McNeese was so enamored with aviation that he would collect and sell pop bottles to scrape together the penny-a-pound it cost to take a plane ride at the citys municipal airport.These days, McNeesea seasoned and

Office vacancy rates here are somewhat higher than a year ago, but in some cases show a reversal of a steeper climb seen earlier this year, a new survey has found.Meantime, a separate new survey shows theres a surplus of industrial space say

The Spokane Regional Transportation Council is getting set to select a manager for the huge proposed Bridging the Valley Transportation project, which has grown in estimated value by $20 million, to $270 million.The government agency is to a on

When Spokane architect Steve Piscitello embarked on his first design-build project last yeara $5.1 million student-housing building at North Idaho Collegehe was unsure how well it would work to have a contractor involved in the design his he it

Imagine a brick-paved, tree-lined pedestrian promenade stretching for a block between Holy Family Hospital and the Franklin Park Commons shopping center on Spokanes North Side. Envision also a pedestrian bridge, just west of there, that spans at

Kellen Green began playing on personal computers at about age 5, bought a used BMW 318i online before he was old enough to drive, and estimates he now spends at least several hours a day on the Internet.When not busy with homework or football,

Government agencies and some large businesses use geographic information systems to a prolific degree in Spokane, but many businesses here havent caught up with the technologys capabilities, say local GIS experts.GIS technology involves the

RATHDRUMA Stratford Home may be modular, but its not mobile.Well, OK, its mobile twice: once when its wheeling down the production line in Stratford Building Corp.s factory here, then when its delivered in big sections on flat-bed a

Banner Corp., the Walla Walla, Wash.-based parent of Banner Bank, plans to open a commercial lending center here in January. Banner has leased about 3,500 square feet of office space for the new center on the second floor of the Riverpoint One

A New York-based company that provides front-line sales and customer-support people to small technology companies is opening a Spokane office that will be headed by its CEO and from which it plans to market itself on the West Coast.The company,