Itron Inc., the Spokane-based maker of automated meter-reading systems, expects to boost employment at its operations here by up to 30 percent, President and CEO LeRoy Nosbaum told a gathering of businesspeople last week.After struggling for the

Spokane restaurateur Dennis Kelly plans to develop a small retail center, called Felts Crossing, at the northeast corner of Trent Avenue and Fancher Way near the Felts Field municipal airport.Kelly says the retail center will be located on a he

Group Photographers Association last month moved from Liberty Lake into the first floor of the old Lamonts building at University City, filling that building.That leaves 20,000 square feet of space to fill in the 480,000-square-foot shopping on

Lloyd Industries Inc., of Spokane, is looking to relocate to a larger facility here and has begun hiring to establish a second shift. It also expects to double its current small workforce within the next 10 months.The company, which designs, and

The Spokane County commissioners are discussing the idea of establishing a tax-increment financing district along the route of a proposed light-rail commuter system in the Spokane Valley to help get the train system built.County Commissioner the

A group that includes Spokane developer Harry Greens company has bought the former Louisiana-Pacific Corp. mill site in Post Falls and plans a mixed-use project there called the Point at Post Falls.The group, Point at Post Falls LLC, closed on

Crown West Realty LLC, of Spokane, plans to build an about $3.6 million office-and-warehouse structure in the southern portion of the big Spokane Business & Industrial Park.Crown West, which owns the 600-acre Spokane Valley park, is seeking a on

Eduard Ribic has been tinkering with wind power since his childhood days in Austria. He remembers building a wind machine at an early age that made a hammering noise to scare grape-eating birds away from vineyards his family owned. As the blades of

Two health-care providers here are proposing construction of a four- to five-story medical building near Deaconess Medical Center, on Spokanes lower South Hill.Janice Marich, a spokeswoman for Spokanes Empire Health Services, which operates

The economic slowdown is already hitting executives where it really hurtsin their own wallets.For the first time since 1996, executives of publicly traded companies in Spokane and North Idaho, on average, saw their paychecks shrink last year,