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CVB to add panel to study future funding

Also plans to open joint office with Hartford CVB in Washington, D.C.

November 25, 2009

The Spokane Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau will seek to appoint a blue ribbon committee of board members and other business leaders to help it address long-range funding issues.Separately, the CVB and the Greater Hartford (Conn.) and a

Empire Ford property sale said pending

Transaction, if completed, would stave off trustee's sale postponed to Feb. 5

November 25, 2009

Kim Crompton

A California-based real estate investment trust has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the former Empire Ford auto dealership property in downtown Spokane, says Nate Greene, who along with his wife, Roberta, owns the property through The Greene

Ham hawkers hot on holidays

November 25, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Spokane residents Jeff and Shawna Miller have shouldered their share of challenges in their small-business ventures here in the last year. Jeff Miller says that although his eyes may have glazed over a few times at the circumstances he's faced &

Shipper plans $3.6 million Valley terminal

Old Dominion says it will move terminal operations from space it leases here

November 25, 2009

Mike McLean

Old Dominion Freight Line Inc., a national trucking company based in Thomasville, N.C., says it plans to erect a $3.6 million, 18,000-square-foot terminal in Spokane Valley and move its Spokane operations there from space it currently leases.The

PFD seeks to buy restaurant property

Board authorizes staff to enter into $4.5 million agreement, but snag arises

November 25, 2009

Kim Crompton

The Spokane Public Facilities District is negotiating to buy the C.I. Shenanigan's restaurant building and land, just north of the boat-shaped Group Health Exhibit Hall downtown, as part of a long-range plan to develop additional convention exhibit

Tribe mulls next step near casino

Nongaming infrastructure work could start next year, but depends on economy

November 25, 2009

Kim Crompton

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians could begin work as early as next spring on infrastructure improvements for an envisioned mixed-use development on land it owns near its expanding Northern Quest Resort & Casino, in Airway Heights, says Kent Caputo, on

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Hoping to avoid cuts in Olympia

Business advocates here to submit conservative requests to Legislature

November 25, 2009

Mike McLean

Business advocates here say they're going to be especially conservative this year when they submit funding requests to the Washington Legislature for the upcoming session because the state's supplemental budget likely will involve more deep cuts in

Work starts on two Wal-Mart stores in area

Idaho outlets' project values top $25 million; work force might hit 600

November 25, 2009

Mike McLean

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the big Bentonville, Ark.-based retail chain, is getting ready to expand its already substantial presence in the Inland Northwest.It says it has started work on two large North Idaho stores—one in Hayden and the in a

Recession, frost nip at Green Bluff

Overall revenues drop, value-added food sales grow

November 25, 2009

Kim Frlan

Direct-market farmers at Green Bluff, the unincorporated farming community northeast of Spokane, are breathing a sigh of relief following their annual Harvest Festival, held Sept. 12 to Oct. 25. Sales growth flatlined, but the numbers of visitors a

$97 million in Cheney work eyed

School district there to seek bonds to build three schools

November 25, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

The Cheney School District plans to seek approval of a bond measure that would help pay for $97 million worth of new construction in the district beginning in 2011.Larry Keller, the district's superintendent, says that three new school a new a a