Earlier this year, WestCoast Hospitality Corp. CEO Donald Barbieri described the conditions facing the travel business as perhaps the most difficult economic environment in the recent history of the hospitality industry.Following the attacks

For motorists zooming along U.S. 2 past Northpointe Plaza on Spokanes North Side, its difficult to see beyond the big retail centers acres of parking lots and sprawling conglomeration of interconnected stores.Hidden behind that sprawling

The owners of the Coeur dAlene Brewing Co. have bought the former T.W. Fishers restaurant business next door to their Coeur dAlene operation and plan to open a brewpub there later this spring.The owners, Spokane developers Ron and Julie a

The parent company of two heating-and-ventilation businesses here is merging its Spokane unit, Service Experts of Washington, with its Coeur dAlene operation, TML LLC, and will close the Spokane companys office.The parent, Service Experts, a

Cedar Builders Inc., of Spokane, is constructing an $8 million assisted-living center at its Cedar Canyon mixed-use development on the South Hill.Foundation work on the project was completed last fall, and construction of the 104-unit building &

Spokane International Airport plans this month to seek bids for projects that will cost more than $17.5 million and will involve rebuilding a taxiway, constructing a new cargo apron, removing a rock outcropping, and building or moving access bulk a

ICT Group Inc., a suburban Philadelphia-based call-center operator, is expanding its Spokane Valley call center, which is located at the University City Shopping Center.Jackie Amendolari, ICTs Philadelphia-based spokeswoman, declines to say or

Logan Industries Inc., a Spokane contract electronics manufacturer that launched three years ago as a spinoff from Liberty Lake-based Telect Inc., has filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S Bankruptcy Code.The company in

McVay Brothers Contractors Inc., a longtime Spokane supplier and installer of siding and windows, has agreed to sell its window-manufacturing division to Window Products Inc., a big Spokane-based vinyl window maker. Separately, Window Products a

Imagine plunking some money into a jukebox and not being limited in your music choices to the relatively small number of compact discs or, God forbid, antique 45s stored in the machine.Instead, using a touch-screen monitor and software designed