Organizers of the Northwest Entrepreneur Competition have set next April 13 as the date for the annual competition that now has been running for 15 years. Sponsors and organizers also changed the name of the event, previously known as the Inland Northwes

A former Skippers restaurant near the Silver Lake Mall in Coeur d'Alene is being converted into a Dickey's Barbecue Pit restaurant. The new restaurant's owner, Mark Engberson, is a Spokane-based franchisee for both Dickey's Barbecue Pit and Wing

Two retail tenants are lined up so far for ground-floor commercial space in the Matilda building that's nearing completion in the University District. Also, many of the upscale apartments in the upper three stories are leased or reserved, say the leas

Bedrosians Tile & Stone Inc., a porcelain tile and stone importer and distributor based in Anaheim, Calif., has started work on a new 41,000-square-foot building at 19119 E. Broadway for a Spokane Valley store. Eddie Bedrosian, the company's Anaheim-ba

Orgill Inc., the Memphis, Tenn.-based hard-goods distribution company, has obtained building permits to construct improvements valued at $7.3 million at the former Kimball Office Inc. facility in Post Falls. Orgill is installing material-handling systems

Denver-based DaVita Inc. has started a $1.3 million renovation project to convert a portion of a retail building at 7701 N. Division into a dialysis and kidney care clinic where DaVita plans to move its North Side clinic, says Kristin Videto, a Federal Wa

San Francisco-based Newmark Realty Capital Inc. has arranged $6.8 million in permanent financing for an office complex at 12825 E. Mirabeau Parkway, in Spokane Valley, says Demetri Koston, Newmark's Spokane-based vice president. The 118,000-square-foot

No one can say Erick Halkier Hansen didn't have ambitious business aspirations. It's sad-and arguably a loss for downtown Spokane-that he wasn't able to find a way to fulfill those aspirations honestly. Such thoughts have been coming to mind fo