Firms that provide professional and insurance services to international customers are being given added incentive to locate or expand here.The Spokane City Council this week designated 20 census tracts in the city where such concerns will be to

The race among auto-parts retailers here for the do-it-yourselfers dollar is intensifying, but whether the market is headed for a shakeout still is unclear.Early next year, The Pep BoysManny, Moe & Jack, a big, Philadelphia-based auto-parts

Both moves, says company President and CEO Wayne Williams, are intended to boost Telects presence and competitiveness in the global market, which the Spokane Valley manufacturer is making a priority of taming. Earlier this year, Telect opened a a

Bendigo International Inc., a swimwear company based in Hayden Lake, Idaho, has been merged with a Canadian sportswear company, Chipmink, to form a new company, H & H International LLC, that will offer an expanded product line.H & H will sell of

Sunshine Minting Co., a Coeur dAlene concern, has added 25 workers recently as it has ramped up to fulfill a five-year contract from the U.S. Mint to produce rounds of silver for collector coins, says Randy Hardy, the Idaho companys general the

Northpointe Retirement LLC, of Spokane, hopes to begin work late next month on the $9.8 million first phase of a planned 326-unit retirement facility on an about eight-acre parcel on Spokanes North Side.Richard Colliton, a principal in LLC, is

Tate Technology Inc., a 2-year-old Spokane electronics company, expects to post sales this year of about $3.6 million, more than double the $1.5 million in sales the company tallied last year.Lee Tate, owner of Tate Technology, which assembles a

The planned expansion at NorthTown Mall has been delayed againthis time until after the first of next year, says G. Rex Frazier, president and chief operating officer of JP Realty Inc., the Salt Lake City-based company that bought NorthTown in of

Ziegler Lumber Co., of Spokane, says it is selling three of its Ziggys building-supply stores in southern Idaho and southeastern Oregon and plans to use the proceeds to build additional outlets in Eastern Washington and North Idaho.Neil the of

In an age when retail music sales have been taken over mostly by megastores, mail-order vendors, and Internet conglomerates, walking into Little Nells Records, at 711 N. Monroe, is like stepping backward in time.What decade you feel like been