Washington Trust Bank has posted net income of $29.3 million for 2004, up 15.1 percent from $25.5 million in the previous year.The Spokane-based banks assets grew to $2.5 billion in 2004, up 12.3 percent, and it also reported substantial in a

Action Mortgage Co. the real estate lending subsidiary of Spokane-based Sterling Savings Bank, has ridden Sterlings rapid growthlast year making $1.16 billion in loansand now is looking to expand in areas its parent doesnt in 1987, Action I

If population surges and a hot real estate market werent proof enough, banking activityspecifically sharply rising loans and depositsprovide further evidence of rapid economic growth in Kootenai County. Three Coeur dAlene-based banks in

The location of a planned new federal courthouse in Coeur dAlene has been a matter of keen interest in the community, and developers were scheduled to give the U.S. General Services Administration some proposed sites earlier this were to have to

KLB Construction Inc., of Lynnwood, Wash., has been awarded a $10 million contract to do earth-moving and grading work in the third construction job on the North Spokane Corridor project, which is also known as the north-south freeway.The work

Centennial Distributing Inc., a Coeur dAlene distributor of Anheuser Busch beverages for five North Idaho counties, plans to build a 50,000-square-foot warehouse in Hayden to replace its current 20,000-square-foot facility at 500 W. a contractor

Granite Investments LLC, a company headed by Spokane developer Dick Vandervert, is building a $1.8 million office building in the Pacific Northwest Technology Park, on the West Plains.The 17,000-square-foot, single-story structure is being just

Wintech Inc., a Spokane Valley importer of metal parts for the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, chemical, and irrigation industries, plans to move its warehouse in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park to a different facility there and also this

BAs much as $40 million in contract work to upgrade Spokanes waste-water treatment plant will be filtering through the economy here later this year, with much of the work to be awarded in the fall. Between about $30 million and $33 million be

Standing on the sidewalk along South Perry Streetnear a Dutch windmill that houses a natural-foods store and a service station-turned-coffee shopone can hear flurries of stomps and taps most evenings.Peer through the picture windows of a a