Covering business happenings here for the last 23 years, I've seen many companies' ambitious predictions of workforce expansion fail to materialize, typically due to unforeseeable market shifts, unrealistic expectations, or strategic that reason, I

Spokane College of English Language Inc., a for-profit, intensive language program for English learners, says it will move downtown this summer from its current quarters in East Spokane.The school has leased 8,100 square feet of space on the of

Progress Tool & Die Inc., a Spokane Valley-based designer and manufacturer of industrial metal products, has launched a new line of commercial and industrial carts that it holds a patent for and that it will begin distributing worldwide in about a

Spokane-based DeVries Business Services has bought the assets of a Pasco-based mobile document destruction company called Green Shred LLC.DeVries' President and CEO Patrick DeVries says the transaction was completed on June 30, but he declines a

dical clinic, has opened in North Spokane at 10015 N. Division.The clinic is owned by Dr. Gwyneth Blattau Gay and her husband, Christopher Gay, and offers non-emergency, primary-care medical services through a fee-for-service model that doesn't

Command Center Inc., a Post Falls-based, temporary-staffing company with more than 50 offices in the U.S., has reported second-quarter revenue of $24 million, up 18 percent from $20.3 million in the year-earlier quarter.The company doesn't to it

Spokane-based Max J. Kuney Co. is the apparent low bidder, at $13.3 million, for the next phase of work on the big North Spokane Corridor freeway project. A contract award has been delayed, though, due to irregularities in the bid results relating

A Richland, Wash., planning commission has approved a commercial site proposal for a new Yoke's Fresh Market in South Richland, which would be the Spokane-based company's fourth store in the Tri-Cities market.Representatives for Yoke's Foods a a

Hart Capital Management Inc.'s Inland Northwest Composite, which gauges the aggregate market value of 15 publicly traded companies in the region, fell by almost $700 million, or about 6 percent, in the second quarter. The Spokane-based firm much