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United Floor Covering adding story to building

Flooring, window covering supplier needed more space, but opted not to move

October 29, 2009

United Floor Covering LLC, a Spokane floor and window covering seller and installer, says it is expanding its main building at 1329 N. Ash.John Spring, who owns the company with his wife, Janice, says the couple had considered relocating the it

Kimmel Athletic launches sales division in Seattle area

Team-sports gear supplier might open warehouse there

October 29, 2009

David Cole

Kimmel Athletic Co., a 40-year-old Spokane-based supplier of sports team uniforms and equipment, says it has formed a Seattle-area sales division.Kimmel sells equipment and uniforms for youth, high school, and college team sports, along with It

Improving smiles 22 floors up

October 29, 2009

Kim Crompton

Patients, not insurance companies, should be the ones deciding how best to improve their dental health and to create a smile that they're happy to show off, asserts Spokane dentist Dr. Navi Virk. Also, he contends, they should be able to make those

Sandwich shop to occupy new center on Ruby

October 29, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Baker Construction & Development Inc., of Spokane, has begun site work for a $600,000 retail center at the northeast corner of Mission Avenue and Ruby Street, where a building that housed a former Chapter 11 steakhouse was razed earlier this of & a

Valley fabricator plans move to Post Falls

Burly Products is building a $1.5 million facility at Riverbend Commerce Park

October 29, 2009

David Cole

Burly Products, a Spokane Valley metal fabricator and machinery maker, plans to move its operation to Post Falls by the end of the year, saying Idaho will provide it a more favorable business climate, the Idaho state Department of Commerce says on

Global CU to shutter two outlets

In-store branch in Valley, Moscow outlet both will close effective Nov. 6

October 29, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Spokane-based Global Credit Union plans to close two of its branches, including one that's located inside a grocery store in Spokane Valley and the other in Moscow, Idaho, says Ed Neunherz, a senior vice president at the credit union. Neunherz says

Encoder maker sees economy as bottoming

Sandpoint-area company expects to be hopping as industries upgrade

October 29, 2009

Richard Ripley

SANDPOINT, Idaho—A quiet but longtime Sandpoint-area manufacturer believes it stands to help sharpen the leading edge of the U.S. economy as it recovers.The concern, Encoder Products Co., makes devices used in just about every type of that

Downtown auto dealer fights ouster

Richardson challenges Ford Motor Co.'s move to dump her as operator

October 29, 2009

Kim Crompton

Jan Richardson, owner of Jaguar-Land Rover-Volvo Spokane, is fighting a move by Ford Motor Co. to terminate her as operator of the downtown dealership.Richardson filed a lawsuit against Ford in Spokane County Superior Court earlier this month a

Retailers voice merry outlook

Merchants here anticipate less snow, higher sales

October 29, 2009

Mike McLean

Despite signs of nervousness on the national retail front, Spokane-area merchants are optimistic that holiday-season sales here will improve over last year's sales, which they say were hampered more by the weather than the recession. Todd Davis,

Kaiser property to get TIF boost

Commissioners to rule on comp plan changes, rezone soon

October 29, 2009

Kim Crompton

A long-term proposal to turn a large piece of land north of the shuttered former Kaiser Aluminum Corp. Mead Works smelter into a mixed-use development has advanced with Spokane County commissioners' approval of a tax-increment financing district at