A proposal by Spokane City Councilman Steve Eugster to move City Hall temporarily to the vacant former Costco Wholesale Corp. store east of downtown has put a public spotlight on the cavernous warehouse structure.Commercial real estate agents to

The bride and groom say I do, seal it with a kiss, and as theyre pronounced husband and wife, every guest at the wedding releases a live butterfly from a monogrammed box they were given when they arrived. Theres no denying that the cloud

On Spokanes North Side, office-building owners are taking aggressive steps to fill an increasing amount of vacant spacewith some offering six months of free rent. In Liberty Lake, a spate of new office space came available as the tech sector an

Banner Bank, of Walla Walla, Wash., is seeking federal regulatory approval to open its second Spokane branch, in the Northtown Office Building at 4407 N. Division.Banner hopes to open the branch in July, says Bill Endress, vice president and of

Cold Stone Creamery Inc. is returning to Spokane, after an earlier brief debut here, and the Spokane couple in charge of developing Cold Stone franchisees in Washington and North Idaho say they foresee strong growth in this region for the national

Work is expected to begin soon on an up to $2 million project in Post Falls to reconstruct the intersection of state Route 41 and Seltice Way and reconfigure on- and off-ramps to Interstate 90 there. The long-awaited project will satisfy raised

Idaho Trust Co., of Coeur dAlene, is reaching out to opposite ends of the investing spectrum with two recent moves, one targeting the very wealthy and the other, the trying-to-become wealthy. In the latter case, the independent trust company a

Orthopaedic Specialty Clinic of Spokane PLLC plans to develop a building in the Northpointe Medical Park and move there from a nearby leased space by early next year, says Dr. David Scott, one of the clinics owners.Scott, an orthopedic says is

U.S. Cap Systems Corp., a Spokane maker of caps for plastic jugs and enhancements for plastic-jug making systems, is on course to triple its sales this year and expects soon to be producing more than 1 billion caps annually.The company currently

Zess Technologies Inc., which had hoped to turn a new type of heat exchanger into a $30-million-a-year business enterprise with help from the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute and Washington State University, has filed for 7