Brandon Lee, former owner and current president of By Design Publishing Inc., a Hayden Lake-based publisher of specialty magazines, has launched another new venture, called Digital Lizard, that already employs 18 and is landing sizable Lizard and a

Garco Building Systems Inc., the Spokane subsidiary of NCI Building Systems Inc., of Houston, is manufacturing a custom-designed, 82,000-square-foot aircraft hangar to be erected at Vancouver International Airport, in British Columbia.The will

Steel Structures America Inc., of Post Falls, says its expanding thanks to strong sales over the past four years. The company plans to build a $1.5 million headquarters in Post Falls that will be three times the size of its current main and a

A Spokane Valley real estate and development company plans to start work soon on a $4.5 million commercial project on the former site of a Tidymans supermarket in the Five Mile shopping district.The company, Brumback Consulting Inc., plans to

More Spokane and Coeur dAlene-area businesses are looking closely at selling goods and services in the booming oil-sands development area in Alberta after they sent representatives on a trade mission recently to Edmonton and Calgary, the two a on

World Wide Packets Inc., the Spokane Valley-based company founded by computer networking guru Bernard Daines and sold recently to a Baltimore-area concern for nearly $300 million, says it expects to grow its operations here and is looking for last

As a surge of traveling motorists teemed across the U.S. in the decade after World War II, roadside motels sprouted up along the east end of Coeur dAlenes Sherman Avenue, which then carried U.S. 10, a main east-west artery.In 1964, work on

With the paint barely dry on a recent $42 million expansion of its facility here, Hollister-Stier Laboratories LLC has started work on another multimillion-dollar project thats expected to boost its production capability further and heat up its a

When Liberty Lake real estate agent Julie Anne Young takes potential homebuyers around the Spokane area to see real estate listings, she no longer strays far from her office. As of last month, Youngs office is never farther away than the and

The top three Inland Northwest builders of single-family homesViking Construction Inc., Sullivan Homes Inc., and Greenstone Corp.all saw their total building-permit values rise last year, compared with 2006, says an annual list compiled by of