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Unico Properties uses customer service to boost occupancy amid difficult market

April 9, 2009

Unico Properties LLC, a Seattle-based real estate concern, entered the Spokane market just two years ago, but is making strong gains in filling space in its high-visibility downtown property and is earning praise from some of its tenants for its of

Small Business Watch: April 9, 2009

April 9, 2009

Family-owned photo studio opens in Valley Uniquely U Images & Gallery, a photography studio that specializes in family portraits, senior and wedding pictures, and modeling photos, has opened in a space at 521 S. Pines, says Cheryl who

If you spend a day giving help, you might just help yourself

Assist at your customer's place of business to walk in their shoes, learn a ton

April 9, 2009

Sales & Marketing

I read that several political hacks predicted the economy would bottom out by late 2009. Please tell me this: How the heck do they know?What is "the bottom," and how long until we are at "the top?" The answer is, they have no idea! What you a

Red Diamond lands two city contracts

April 9, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Red Diamond Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, has been awarded two city of Spokane contracts, worth a total of about $500,000, for work in northwest Spokane.One of those projects, which entails replacing the traffic signals at the of Avenue

Home dÃ©cor retail store opens in Airway Heights

Owners also move their specialty landscaping business to new location

April 9, 2009

David Cole

Monte and Kelly Tareski, who own Innovative Landscape Design LLC here, have developed a structure in Airway Heights to house the company's specialty landscape business and a new retail store it is launching to sell garden stone dcor, home dcor,

Eller set to get rebuild project on South Hill

April 9, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Eller Corp., of Newman Lake, is the apparent low bidder, at $1.9 million, for a city of Spokane project to repave a deteriorated section of a busy South Hill commuter route.The project calls for repaving a 1.2-mile section of Southeast between a

ReliOn plans to introduce smaller fuel cell

New system is expected to be available this year for smaller-scale backup

April 9, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Spokane Valley technology company ReliOn Inc. says it's developing a new, smaller version of its hydrogen fuel-cell system. Called the Eco-200 fuel-cell system, the new version should be available commercially in the fourth quarter of this year

Graham erects new Walgreens outlet in Hayden

April 9, 2009

Mike McLean

Graham Construction & Management Inc., of Spokane, is erecting a $1.8 million structure in Hayden, Idaho, that will house a Walgreens pharmacy and retail outlet.The 14,500-square-foot building is going up at the southeast corner of U.S. 95 and a

Retail center slated near North Side WinCo

Spokane Pavilion Shops to have up to nine outlets east of new supermarket

April 9, 2009

Mike McLean

A Phoenix, Ariz., shopping center developer plans to build a $1.4 million structure near the WinCo Foods Inc. supermarket on Spokane's North Side that would house retail shops.The developer, Kornwasser Shopping Center Properties LLC, has a to a

Valley's Sterling Hospitality to open two more hotels

Combined value of Cd'A, Wenatchee establishments estimated at $23 million

April 9, 2009

Mike McLean

Spokane Valley-based Sterling Hospitality Management LLC plans to open SpringHill Suites by Marriott hotels in Coeur d'Alene and Wenatchee with a combined value of $23 million in the next two years, says Cal Clausen, Sterling's sister company, kVc