Meetings & EventsGreater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce will hold a business connections breakfast on Friday, Feb. 15, at 7 a.m., at Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, 1100 N. Sullivan. Spokane County Commissioner Al French will speak.

Restoration franchise opens in east SpokaneA new Servpro franchise, a company that specializes in damaged-property restoration, has opened in east Spokane.M&M Restoration, which operates as Servpro of Northeast Spokane, is owned by Scott and

River Day School, a private kindergarten through sixth-grade school, has leased the 4,400-square-foot former Sonitrol building, at 1627 E. Trent, along with an adjacent vacant lot, and plans to move there this spring, says Colleen Curran, executive

The Spokane-based Inland Northwest Community Foundation has leased 4,800 square feet of office space in the Paulsen Center downtown and has moved there from smaller quarters.INWCF's space on the sixth floor of the historic downtown building, at

When we moved from Montana to Olympia 35 years ago, we saw enticing television and magazine ads for our neighboring states, but none for Washington. Fast forward to 2013 and nothing has changed. It was puzzling then, but even more perplexing today,

American Childhood Cancer Organization Inland Northwest has moved to space in a Wells Fargo Bank branch building on Spokane's South Hill from smaller quarters in Spokane Valley, says executive director Mary Anne Ruddis.Wells Fargo donated space

The former Chromastat Inc. building east of downtown Spokane has been updated and converted into offices designed to appeal to entrepreneurs and others who might desire virtual, drop-in, part-time, or culturally diversified coworking Pillar, a with

Magnuson Worldwide, a hotel services business that offers reservation management and branding support with headquarters in Spokane and London, says it now can offer brand-affiliated property owners greater loan options for renovations or equipment

Cornerstone Equities LLC, of Spokane, is constructing an 8,700-square-foot retail center at 1101 N. Division that likely will be completed next month, says Keith Scribner, trustee of Keith R. Scribner Trust, a principal member in the declines to of

An Alaska company has bought Aztech Electric Inc., of Spokane Valley, and plans to continue operating the electrical contracting concern under its longtime name here, says Todd Booth, Aztech Electric's new manager.The acquisition, which was Jan.