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Spokane Tribe preps for industrial push

Spokanes envision 155-acre 'green' business park, solar farm next to STEP site

July 20, 2017

The Spokane Tribe of Indians is laying the ground for its next ambitious step on the West Plains-developing a 155-acre 'greenâ€ industrial park to support its goal of creating its own utility company that would generate and distribute solar energy.

Inland Northwest executive pay rebounds

Average compensation increases 3.8 percent

July 20, 2017

Linn Parish

Total compensation rebounded last year for executives at Inland Northwest-based publicly traded companies, according to the annual analysis conducted by the Journal of Business. Average annual total compensation in 2016 for 41 executives from the eight p

Avista to be acquired by Toronto utility in $5.3 billion transaction

Company's headquarters to remain in Spokane

July 19, 2017

Linn Parish

Avista Corp., the longtime Spokane-based utility once known as Washington Water Power Co., announced this afternoon that Toronto-based Hydro One will acquire it in a transaction valued at $5.3 billion U.S., or $6.7 billion Canadian. The transaction has

Two Spokane Valley factories imminent

Katerra Inc., Progress Rail likely to announce plants

July 6, 2017

Mike McLean

Progress Rail Services, of Albertville, Ala., and Menlo Park, Calif.-based Katerra Inc. might be gearing up to announce soon their plans to construct plants that that could lead to hundreds of living-wage manufacturing jobs in Spokane Valley

Rising doctors: Inspired to instruct

Young docs blend practice, teaching, focused research

July 6, 2017

By his own admission, Dr. Darryl Potyk, the chief of medical education for the University of Washington School of Medicine-Gonzaga University Regional Health Partnership, tends to approach situations-and people-in cautious fashion. So upon first meet

Entrepreneurial spirit runs in bagel brothers' family

Einstein Bros. franchisees to add more restaurants

July 6, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

On the surface Einstein Bros. Bagels may appear to be just another franchise, but for the Schmidt brothers, Matthew and Mark, it's always been a family-run business. 'Our family is definitely very involved in the business,â€ says Matthew. 'They h

Small Business Watch

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July 6, 2017

Staff Report

Klint Croucher has debuted Palouse Bar & Grill Restaurant, located at 2912 E. Palouse Highway on the South Hill. Croucher says he assumed the lease from Anthony's Beach CafÃ©, which closed there in December. Dave Black, CEO of NAI Black, helped broker

Guest Commentary: Income-tax proponents need to come clean

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July 6, 2017

Guest Commentary

Members of the Seattle City Council who are proposing a tax on the gross income of Seattle residents they view as 'the wealthyâ€ need to come clean with those constituents who are actually hoping for additional revenue to deal with what they perceive a

Riverstone Village retail store space now fully leased

All 160 acres at Cd'A site either bought or spoken for

July 6, 2017

Mike McLean

There's no space left to lease at the Riverstone Village retail center in Coeur d'Alene, and all of the land in the surrounding 160-acre Riverstone development is spoken for, says a commercial real estate broker involved in many of the recent transact

The Journal's View: Leave law shows value of compromise

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July 6, 2017

Staff Report

Amid what seems like ever more poisonous partisan political bickering comes a good example, forged by business representatives, labor interests, other stakeholders, and the Washington state Legislature, of what can happen when people come together to work