Room-tax revenues in the city of Spokane and Spokane County grew 11 percent and 16 percent, respectively, during the first quarter, providing an indicator of growth in hotel business here, says Mina Gokee, director of sales at the Spokane Area and

Idaho Trust Co., a Coeur dAlene-based investment-management company, has formed a nationally-chartered bank, called Wealthbank N.A., so that it can offer its estate-planning and trust services across the country, says company President Thomas new

AT&T Media Services, the advertising sales and production arm of AT&T Cable Services, plans to move its offices to downtown Spokane from the cable companys main facility here at 1717 E. Buckeye in East Spokane.The media-services unit, which 18

P.OB. Montgomery & Co., a Dallas-based real estate company that owns Franklin Park Mall here, has started an interior demolition in part of the North Side retail center to make room for an unnamed big national retailer.Lance Taylor, a partner

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., the big Spokane-based financial-services company, has reported record net income of $16.3 million for its most recent fiscal year, an increase of nearly 60 percent over the previous year.The company also a

Martha Cummings is a mother, at heart and practiceand also by occupation.The fair-haired, rosy-cheeked grandmother of 10soon to be 11has spent the last 17 years nurturing her venerable downtown Spokane specialty store through its ups and a

LineSoft Corp., a Spokane-based maker of software for power-line planning and design, plans to hire more than 200 workers in the next 18 months, accelerating an already aggressive growth clip that has exceeded company projections, says Linda of and

New York investment bankers are telling Avista Corp. that a fund-raising to launch business options at its fast-growing subsidiaries would bring in $200 million less if Avista keeps the subsidiaries headquarters here instead of moving them out of

Liberty Lake-based Telect Inc., the telecommunications-equipment manufacturer thats seemingly always in a growth spurt, has opened a plant in Brazil, is spending millions to expand at its campus here, and is hiring hundreds of workers to handle a

The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers has awarded a $10.2 million contract to Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, to build a second KC-135 hydrant-based aircraft-fueling system at Fairchild Air Force Base and to expand the bases current fueling began