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Furniture chain mulls closures here

Canadian-based United Furniture Warehouse operates three area stores
February 26, 1997
Kim Crompton
United Furniture Warehouse, a Canadian-based 155-store discount chain, is considering closing one or more of its three stores in the Spokane-Coeur dAlene area as part of a scaling back of its struggling U.S. operations, says company President are
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Pizza-pan maker buys Cheney concernÂ’s assets

Lloyd Industries to continue bakery-products line, move into new markets, products
February 26, 1997
Adrienne C. Dellwo
Lloyd Industries Inc., a Spokane-based pizza-pan and equipment maker, has bought the assets of Paul Eyraud Co., a Cheney business that made commercial baking products and Martha Stewart Living-brand baking pans. The transaction will allow Lloyd
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Downtown office-tower project is pushed back

Lack of committed tenants cited; work on project now unlikely to start before Â’03
February 26, 1997
Kim Crompton
The construction of a planned $50 million, 19-story office tower in downtown Spokane has been delayed due to a lack of tenants and now probably wont start until at least next year, a project spokesman says.The spokesman, Larry Soehren, vice of
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Sounds mad, but science is fun

Mad Science of Spokane
February 26, 1997
Linn Parish
At childrens birthday parties, Rick Turner sometimes asks an unsuspecting dad or grandfather for a $20 bill.He then dips the currency in rubbing alcohol and puts a match to it. As flames engulf the bill, kids laugh and grown-ups gasp. After
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Worthys to expand office park

Work to start this summer on planned, five-story office structure, parking garage
February 26, 1997
Addy Hatch
Spokane developers Walt and Karen Worthy wont be slowing down much once they finish a lavish restoration of the Davenport Hotel this spring. Walt Worthy says the couple plans to begin construction this summer on another big office building and at
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Fowler returns to franchising

Sylvan Learning Centers founder turns to earlier successful business model
February 26, 1997
Paul Read
W. Berry Fowler didnt leave the franchising world for long.Two years ago, the Spokane entrepreneur, who earlier had founded such franchising giants as Sylvan Learning Centers and Little Gym International Inc., set out to build a corporate of A
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Health plan rates: no relief

Large share of employers here will see double-digit increases in premiums again this year
February 26, 1997
Kim Crompton
Many Spokane-area employers who had hoped for some respite this year from double-digit percentage increases in their health-care plan premiums likely are finding themselves mightily disappointed.Representatives for several of the Inland larger 7
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Hecla boosts gold output by a third, cuts cash costs

Cutbacks at Lucky Friday, however, contribute to lower overall silver production
February 26, 1997
Addy Hatch
Hecla Mining Co., of Coeur dAlene, boosted its gold production by a third last year and significantly lowered its cash costs of producing both gold and silver. The company, which has operating mines in the U.S., Mexico, and Venezuela, also it
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WAM plans retail strip at Wal-Mart

Three tenants on board for $1.8 million project at new Post Falls store
February 26, 1997
Addy Hatch
WAM Enterprises Inc., of Spokane, plans to build a retail strip center in the northeast corner of the parking lot at Wal-Mart Stores Inc.s new outlet in Post Falls. WAM bought a little more than an acre of Wal-Marts 20-acre Post Falls site,
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Three new tenants to fill Bayou Brewing space

Rendezvous Events opens in banquet facility; brewer, Thai restaurant plan moves
February 26, 1997
Linn Parish
A Spokane events business has leased part of the shuttered Bayou Brewing Co. premises, and two other businesses, an Airway Heights microbrewery and a Spokane Thai restaurant, expect to sign leases there soon and move their respective operations the
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