Lori and Jeff Koppa werent waiting for a sign to start their own business, but one day it just showed up, in the form of a friendly challenge. They have been making decorative hand stenciled wooden signs with inspiring, touching, or clever ever a

A longtime Spokane-based supplier of power tools and equipment for commercial contractors has changed its name to Edge Construction Supply and has sold its scaffold division.Rick Thomas, owner and chairman of the company, says that the formerly

The city of Spokane plans to phase in a new commercial permitting application process that it says should speed up the time it takes to issue such permits.Under the new process, applicants for commercial permit plan reviews will be asked to to

A West Side company plans to develop a 50-lot residential development northeast of Park Road and Eighth Avenue, in Spokane Valley, that will be aimed at independent seniors.The company, Burlington, Wash.-based Landed Gentry Homes & Communities

The Tony Romas restaurant on Spokanes North Sidethe last such eatery in operation herehas closed.The franchisee, Salt Lake City-based Slaymaker Group Inc., which also shuttered its Tony Romas restaurant in Spokane Valley this past the

A company formed jointly by SRM Development LLC, of Spokane, and the founders of a prominent law firm here has bought the Grant Building downtown, which it plans to remodel as office and retail space.SRM Development and FM Marketing LLC, owned

A group of investors affiliated with the Moloney+ONeill insurance brokerage here has bought a stake in the Lincoln Building downtown, and the brokerage plans to start moving its operations there next year.The investors, through a Spokane M+O

Spokanes restaurant industry has been growing robustly in recent years, thanks largely to a healthy economy, a vibrant downtown, and diners newfound appetites for niche cuisines, restaurateurs here say.In one indicator, taxable retail sales

A California developer has broken ground on a planned $28 million project at the Sandpoint Airport that will include 44 fly-in residences as well as commercial and aviation-services buildings. To be called SilverWing at Sandpoint, the is

As world aluminum prices go, so go the fortunes of Wagstaff Inc., a 61-year-old Spokane Valley company that makes equipment for the aluminum-casting industry. Right now, aluminum prices are hot, and theyre expected to remain so for the were $1.10