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Inland Northwest bankruptcy filings decline for fifth straight year

Several factors could cause trend reversal

January 14, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

Bankruptcy filings in Eastern Washington and North Idaho have declined for the fifth straight year.

Xtreme Arena: Projectile play

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January 14, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

hen James Almond opened Xtreme Arena last fall, he intended it to be a space where groups and families could create their own chaos.

Fifty Percent Off shops to close later this month

Sister supply company will be shuttered as well

January 14, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

LDE Inc., the Spokane-based company that operates the Fifty Percent Off Card Shop retail chain, plans to close permanently its two remaining stores this month.

Developers to start $12 million Vinegar Flats Public Market project this year

Mixed-use building slated along south side of I-90

January 14, 2016

The developers for a proposed seven-story, $12 million mixed-use building that would be located on the lower South Hill intend to break ground this year.

Foreclosure actions dip, approach prerecession norms

Trend tied to job growth, health of housing market

January 14, 2016

Mike McLean

Foreclosure actions completed in Spokane County in 2015 dropped by 27 percent compared with the number of foreclosures in 2014, finally falling out of the historically high range, says Phil Kuharski, a longtime Spokane economic data analyst.

Smoking ban clears the air

Latest health concerns focus on effects of vaping products

January 14, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

Ten years after Washington State's Smoking in Public Places law was put into effect, local health officials and restaurant owners agree that overall the smoking ban has been a good thing both for workers and for business.

Costco to move north Spokane store

Warehouse club move will shift coveted tax revenue

January 14, 2016

Mike McLean

Costco Wholesale Corp. plans to leave the city and move its busy north Spokane store a few miles north into an unincorporated area of the county.

Carhartt to open store downtown

Workwear apparel company to anchor Bennett Block

January 12, 2016

Journal of Business Staff

Hieber Properties, the Spokane-based development company that's renovating the historic Bennett Block in downtown Spokane, says it has signed Carhartt Inc., the Dearborn, Mich.-based maker of durable workwear apparel, as the anchor tenant for that prope

Kalispels take ownership of former Spokane Country Club property

Tribe invests $3 million, plans number of upgrades

December 17, 2015

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians has completed its $3 million purchase of the former Spokane Country Club and has changed the club's name to the Kalispel Golf & Country Club. Depending on the weather, the golf course is scheduled to open between the midd

Jefferson-Norman project to feature high-end condos

Prime Real Estate Group marketing development

December 17, 2015

Mike McLean

Prime Real Estate Group, of Spokane, is marketing eight upscale residential condominiums that are under renovation in the Jefferson and Norman buildings downtown, says Melissa Murphy, owner and managing broker at the real estate company. Yellow Door Prop