A former Spokane boy is looking to make it easy for you to buy that cordless drill, lawnmower, or metric tool set youve been wanting, while sitting at home in your bathrobe and slippers.Sam Heerensperger, son of former Spokane businessman and

Spokane real estate developer Rob Brewster Jr. says he has decided against renewing an option to buy a site at Riverside Avenue and Howard Street downtown for a possible $35 million-to-$40 million skyscraper. Brewster says the project still is a

Heavy hitters in the business community here are taking steps to form a CEO-led regional business roundtable that would tackle issues they say are impeding economic growth in the Spokane-Coeur dAlene area.The formation of such a group has from

If there was supposed to be an ebb in momentum at Telect Inc. when the telecommunications equipment maker spun off a division in June that employed nearly 130 people and had annual sales of $9 million, someone forgot to tell CEO Wayne at the office

Bernard Daines, founder of Packet Engines Inc., of Spokane, has filed suit in U.S. District Court here against Paris-based Alcatel S.A. and Texas-based Alcatel USA Inc., the company that bought Packet last December.In his suit, Daines claims the

Technet, a Spokane support group for high-tech executives, plans to launch a forum that would help entrepreneurs here meet qualified investors who are willing to provide venture capital.Tentatively called the Technet Investors Forum, the new off

Another activity center for teen-agers is being planned in Spokane, and the effort to develop this onewhich is expected to teach teens how to operate a businessis being headed by Steve Livingstone, owner of Bumpers Fun Centers here, along is

George Gee, owner of George Gee Pontiac/GMC, has sold the dealerships current location on East Sprague in the Spokane Valley and apparently plans to build a new facility for the dealership on land just north of Interstate 90 at the Liberty Lake a

Itronix Corp.s entry into new, and potentially huge, aerospace markets is lifting off.The Spokane-based manufacturer of durable, wireless computers recently has started pilot programs with three major aerospace companies and one military and a

The hundreds of clocks that line the walls and fill display racks at The Clock House unswervingly tick off the seconds and mark the top of each hour with a crescendo of chimes and cuckoos. Yet, time in this shop, which focuses on the age-old of to