A switch from sandwiches to fruit might not seem like a big change for most people, but for Ken and Crystal Lamoreaux, it meant a long-sought change from being employees to being employers.Undaunted by their inability to buy a Subway restaurant

Acordia Inc., a Chicago-based Wells Fargo subsidiary, has bought the Spokane branch assets of global insurance giant Marsh, says Mark Neupert, who had been an executive with Marsh here and now is senior vice president and branch manager for of last

AmericanWest Bank, the main operating subsidiary of Spokane-based AmericanWest Bancorp, says it plans to expand into Utah by opening a loan production office near Salt Lake City by June and a full-service financial center there later this has to of

A joint venture formed by N.A. Degerstrom Inc., of Spokane Valley, and Acme Concrete Paving Inc., of Spokane, has been awarded the contract to reconstruct more than a mile of the Interstate-90 viaduct in downtown Spokane.The entity, called The

Spokane-based OneEighty Networks Inc. is creating a new subsidiary through which it plans to begin offering converged voice and data communications direct to business customers desktops in the Inland Northwest, says Greg Green, its chairman a

Fasteners Inc., a longtime fastener and tool distributor here, says it will open a store in Lewiston, Idaho, this summer, and hopes to open two more stores in Washington by the end of the year, which would give it 11 stores.The company has a in

Newport Beach, Calif.-based Canddle Development Inc. says it plans to develop a 287-unit senior housing facility in North Spokane at a cost of about $30 million.The envisioned five-story, 250,000-square-foot complex, to be called Vintage at for

As prom season descends upon Spokane-area high schools in all of its budget-busting glory, formal wear retailers here say theyre anticipating their highest-grossing prom season yet.Although the increasingly extravagant high school event is an

Ambassadors Group Inc., the Spokane-based provider of educational travel programs, plans to build a 100,000-square-foot-plus corporate headquarters on the West Plains. Jeff Thomas, Ambassadors Group president and CEO, says the company has for 2

Five proposed Community Colleges of Spokane building projects, with a combined value of about $89 million, have made a statewide short list of projects competing for future state funding.Making the list, issued in February by the State for