Baney Corp., a Bend, Ore.-based hotel developer, has begun construction of a new Oxford Suites hotel along the north bank of the Spokane River near downtown Spokane.Bruce Sleep, a project supervisor for Baney, says that the hotel, which is being

Greenstone Corp., a Spokane-based development and construction company, plans to build a $2.5 million office structure at Liberty Lake and consolidate its offices there next year.The project still is being designed, so some details havent been

Developers of the Cedar Canyon Village shopping center on Spokanes South Hill have started construction of a 116-unit apartment complex, called Cedar Canyon Villas, just east of the big shopping center along 57th Avenue.Rich Naccarato, who his

Amy Carson is something of an alchemist. While she doesnt turn lead into gold, she does transform wood from old docks and barns and rustic items from Third World countries into simple, elegant, modern furniture and light fixtures.In a corner a

Spokane Countys Utilities Division is studying options to meet the countys wastewater-treatment needs through the year 2020options that include building at least one major new treatment plant here, at a potential cost of as much as $110 or up

Spokanes long-humming cadre of engine rebuilders apparently have weathered a national upheaval in their industry, and together still employ about 250 people here and remanufacture more than 2,700 vehicle engines a month.Such companies, which a

A broad-based group of Spokane businesspeople and civic leaders headed by Biomedex Inc. President George Coleman and Avista Corp. executive Pete Kerwien has begun putting together what is envisioned to be a several-hundred-acre technology park near

Avista Laboratories Inc., Avista Corp.s Spokane-based technology-development company thats commonly referred to as Avista Labs, plans to move its operations into a former Itron Inc. office-and-manufacturing building in the Spokane Business & in

After a somewhat tumultuous start here, the Spokane operation of Paris-based Alcatel S.A. has secured its role within that multi-billion-dollar company and apparently, for some time to come, its future in Spokane.When Alcatel acquired Packet in

A shift in the supply and demand for workers has forced staffing agencies here and elsewhere to alter the way they do business.Through the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, many agencies prospered mainly by supplying temporary or contract whom a