A citizens group here says it will need to win support of the business community as it seeks to spark development of a proposed park on a largely undeveloped urban stretch of the Spokane River west of Riverfront Park.The group, Friends of the &

Stinson Manufacturing Co., which makes scaffolding planks, decks, and ladder jacks used to form stable above-ground work platforms, has found that keeping its balance in a turbulent economy isnt easy.The small Spokane business posted its in

The Liberty Lake operation of Getronics, the big Amsterdam-based information-technology conglomerate, shows few signs of rebounding much from the work-force losses it has suffered in recent years. That doesnt mean, though, that the roughly is has

The United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 44, of Spokane, has bought two 20,000-square-foot buildings in East Spokane for $1.75 million and plans to move its operations to one of those buildings this summer.Separately, Building

Bio-OriGyn LLC, of Spokane, has received a U.S. patent for its Pre-Seed vaginal lubricant, the companys first consumer product for human infertility. The patent is Bio-OriGyns eighth, but its first U.S. patent for Pre-Seed, says company CEO

Inland Northwest Science and Technology Center, the nonprofit citizens group that has proposed a $30 million-to-$40 million science-and-technology center on the north side of Riverfront Park, appears to be close to clearing an initial Majer, the he

Spokane Valley-based Crown West Realty LLC has acquired an office complex in Phoenix for $2.1 million and says it hopes to invest at least an additional $50 million in real estate there this year.With the most recent acquisition, Crown West, &

Having grown quickly in the Spokane market, Cintas Corp., a Cincinnati-based uniform-rental company, has moved to larger quarters in Spokane Valley and is considering building its own facility here in the future.The big, publicly-traded company

Fasteners Inc., a longtime Spokane-based distributor of nuts, bolts, and screws, is acquiring an even older competitor in Coeur dAlene, the former Bracks Supply. Fasteners is buying the Coeur dAlene businesswhich has been called Valley

A $2.7 million upgrade at Potlatch Corp.s St. Maries, Idaho, lumber and plywood mill is expected to boost productivity and enable the company to make a new product there.Potlatch spokesman Mike Sullivan says the Spokane company expects that a