The legacy of the Spokane-area software industry includes companies that shot to the top by serving major industries or by capturing sizable chunks of national and international markets.Today, however, feisty smaller software developers here and

Flat Spin Media LLC, a young Spokane multimedia company, has moved its operations into a 51,000-square-foot building owned by Visiontec Inc., a contract circuit-board manufacturer located at 10920 E. Sprague in the Spokane Valley.Craig Sorenson,

Meckel Engineering & Surveying Inc., of Coeur dAlene, has bought property in the Coeur dAlene Commerce Park for a new building and plans to begin construction of that structure as soon as it sells its longtime headquarters near downtown.The

Sterling Savings Bank, of Spokane, has opened a corporate banking center in downtown Portland to seek business from small to mid-sized companies there.Sterling says the center offers a wide array of corporate banking services, as well as an

The states largest dental benefits provider, Seattle-based Washington Dental Service, has chosen Colville as the site for a new call center thats initially expected to create nearly 30 new customer-service and claims-processing jobs in that the

The Health Improvement Partnership, a Spokane nonprofit organization, is working through a community initiative called Expanded Choice to develop health-benefit options to offer to uninsured workers in an 11-county Eastern Washington area.Sharon

U.S. Pies Realty LLC, an affiliate of Spokane-based Cyrus OLearys Wholesale Pies, has bought six acres of land in Airway Heights and is studying the feasibility of constructing a 35,000-square-foot pie-production facility there.Barclay of of

A hearing in Boise next week is expected to close the books on the 1997 Chapter 11 reorganization of Schweitzer Mountain Resort, in which creditors were repaid an average of 75 cents on the dollar, court documents show.Thats a very good for

If youve walked into a convenience store in the Pacific Northwest to pay for gas or to buy snacks, its quite possible that you also have looked at, been tempted by, and maybe even snatched up products sold by Doug Huffmans Spokane-based items

A Washington State University professor here has developed what he believes are accurate new methods for measuring the Spokane areas economic growth.Don Epley, an urban economist and a professor of real estate and finance at WSUs Spokane he