The city of Spokane has awarded a $1.1 million Greene Street bridge upgrade project to Kirkland, Wash.-based Leewens Corp., says city spokeswoman Julie Happy. The bridge is located in the projected path of the long-envisioned North Spokane near

Cell Phone Outlet Inc., a Spokane-based Verizon Wireless retailer, plans to move its Spokane Valley outlet into a larger space in a building soon to be constructed at the Argonne Village shopping center, says Darrin Tawney, Cell Phone Outlet says a

Otis Orchards-based I-Guard International K-9 Services LLC, which specializes in breeding and training German shepherds and other dogs for service needs, is constructing a $1.2 million facility in the Spokane Valley to expand its Lungu, who owns in

Miller Paint Co., a Portland-based paint-store chain, plans to open its fourth outlet in the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area next spring, says Steve Dearborn, the company's CEO, who adds that by then the company hopes to identify more potential store a

Prominent North Idaho homebuilder Viking Construction Inc. has started work on a $7.4 million, 70-unit apartment complex in northwest Coeur d'Alene, says Scott Krajack, an executive with Viking Construction.The project site for the complex, to a

Inland Power & Light Co., the Spokane-based electric cooperative, will absorb a 9 percent average wholesale power rate increase this fall, and any hike to its members' rates likely won't happen until spring, says CEO Chad Jensen."We don't that a

Northwest Farm Credit Services says agricultural land buyers appear more cautious, and the association's recent land value survey found that Northwest land sales activity slowed in the second quarter of 2013.Separately, the big Spokane-based net

The Downtown Spokane Partnership is seeking requests for qualifications for a design project that would beautify land around off-ramps from Interstate 90—often called gateways, says Marla Nunberg, the organization's vice president. The DSP,