A Spokane-based company called Pacific Rim Ethanol LLC hopes to start building a $122 million ethanol plant at Moses Lake, Wash., this year, says Douglas MacKenzie, the companys president and chief executive officer.The plant essentially will

Walgreens Co., of Deerfield, Ill., has leased part of the former Huckleberrys Fresh Market building in the Spokane Valley and plans to open a Walgreens Pharmacy there, says a real estate executive whos involved in the transaction.The Jim an

A Post Falls tax-increment financing district formed to help recruit the big Harpers Inc. office-furniture plant there in 1993 is expected to be dissolved at the end of next year, when it finishes repaying bonds sold to pay for infrastructure so be

Honeywell Electronic Materials Interconnect Metals, a strategic business unit of Honeywell here that formerly was owned by Johnson Matthey Electronics, is planning to release two new products this summer that are expected to boost employment at the

Eldon and Becky Humphrey say their occupation often is the brunt of jokes and is a favorite Hollywood stereotype, but they fail to see the humor. They take their jobs very seriously.No, the Humphreys arent attorneys or members of some other of

COEUR DALENESpokane developer John Stone unveiled detailed plans last week for turning 73 acres of vacant land along Northwest Boulevard here into a $200 million mixed-use development.The project, called Riverstone, envisions 42 lots for of

Spokane City Councilman Steve Eugster says he has halted efforts to investigate what the city can do to assist in the redevelopment of the Davenport Hotel, after being criticized for his efforts and asked by an attorney for the hotels owner to to

The city of Coeur dAlene is in the process of hiring an architect to design a $1 million expansion and renovation of its City Hall. The project will add about 20 percent more space to the 20,800-square-foot building, which is located at 710 of

Harbor Resorts LLC, the Seattle company that bought the Schweitzer Mountain ski area last winter, plans to build 400 condominium units and some 45,000 square feet of commercial space in the ski resorts village over the next five to seven years. a

Spokane developer Dick Vandervert says he is talking with 24 Hour Fitness, the big Pleasanton, Calif.-based fitness-club chain, about building an exercise facility for the chain on land behind the Northpointe Plaza shopping center on Spokanes an