A longtime grocery executive and his wife have bought the assets of Spokane candy maker Halletts Chocolate & Treat Factory, and plan to expand the business both here and into other Pacific Northwest markets.Charly and Sandy Owen bought the 23

DuPree Inc., which does business as Window & Door Design, of Spokane, plans to restore the Hopson Building, at 1213 W. Railroad, into loft-style apartments, if it can arrange financing for the project.Meanwhile, DuPree is remodeling the which a

Spokane business owners Paul and Nadine Rayburn have bought for $600,000 the former McGinnis Independent Paper Co. building in downtown Spokane.The six-story, 75,000-square-foot structure is located at 124 S. Wall. The Rayburns own Inc., of

Washington state let its economic-development programs slide when times were fat in the Puget Sound area, and the states economy is suffering today as a result, contends Scott Morris, president of Avista Utilities here. Morris, one of two on

Inland Imaging Associates PS, of Spokane, says it has won a five-year contract, beginning July 1, to provide radiology services to Polyclinic, an 85-physician, multispecialty health-care practice in Seattle.The contract is the Spokane first the

Six Robblees Inc., a Seattle-based distributor of heavy-duty truck and trailer parts that operates a Spokane branch, has bought the assets of Interstate Parts & Equipment, a longtime Spokane company, and plans to construct a new building here to

Almost every Spokane- and Coeur dAlene-based bank has reported record profits for 2002, the second year in a row in which banks in this area have produced glittering returns.The banks say they were helped by prevailing low interest rates rate

TVs Food Network might be responsible for planting words such as gnocchi and panettone into the American consciousness, but Cassanos Import Italian Foods brought those items to Spokane long before celebrity chefs such as Mario Batali and Emeril

An investor group plans to transform eight buildings in the west 1000 block of First Avenue downtown into a creative center and business incubator for arts-related entrepreneurs.The group, known as Odd Girls LLC, of Spokane, has bought the over

In the basement of the old Display House building in downtown Spokane, Chris Lewis gropes around in the dark, struggling to find a light switch to illuminate what soon will be the home of his new jazz bar, the Bluelight Underground.After and a