A handful of investors is considering developing a $30 million car-racing track in East Spokane, attorney Roy Koegen says.Koegen, managing partner in the Spokane office of Seattle-based Perkins-Coie LLP, says some investors have approached him a

Spokanes three Meineke Discount Mufflers stores have been bought by a new company thats affiliated with a big Meineke franchisee in Portland, Ore.The Spokane-based company, SRD Inc., also has a license to open a fourth Meineke store in the a

Taxable retail sales in Spokane County rose a healthy 6.7 percent last year to $5.6 billion, outpacing gains in 1999, when they rose 6.3 percent to $5.2 billion.Within the city of Spokane, taxable sales climbed 6.1 percent last year to $3.2 also

A large, long-proposed apartment complex on Spokanes North Side, to be named Prairie Hills at Grayhawk, appears to be moving forward.The city of Spokane has issued building permits for seven of 10 apartment buildings planned in the first phase

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, has reported a net loss of about $14.1 million for its second fiscal quarter ended March 31, down sharply from net income of about $455,000 for the year-earlier period. The loss was on revenues of

Spokane Regional Aquatics Center Inc., a new nonprofit corporation here, hopes to develop a $12 million-to-$15 million indoor swimming facility in the Spokane Valley.Jeff Eickerman, president of Spokane Regional Aquatics, says preliminary design

Hollister-Stier Laboratories LLC, of Spokane, began a marketing blitz in January to promote its contract-manufacturing services, and the strategy appears to be working: The pharmaceutical makers contract sales are up more than 300 percent for the

Tax-increment financing wont become available in Washington state for another several weeks, but developers here already are looking into whether the city or county would use it in conjunction with their projects, which could be worth tens of of

Chances are, the car-mounted sign atop the pizza-delivery vehicle that whisked through your neighborhood last night was made here in Spokane by Cassel Promotions. The same might be true if you lived in New York, Boston, Las Vegas, or a host of U.S.

Avista Energy, currently the hottest-performing subsidiary of Spokane-based Avista Corp., has been slapped with an additional $13.5 million business-and-occupation tax assessment by the Washington state Department of Revenue for its energy-trading