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PFD expansion plan advances

Project cost put at $60 million to $70 million; 2012 vote eyed

February 24, 2011

The Spokane Public Facilities District board was to receive a final detailed report this week on plans for an estimated $60 million to $70 million expansion of the Spokane Convention Center, which the district expects to put before voters next for

Two businesses buy, will occupy former church building on Indiana

February 10, 2011

A company formed by an accounting firm and a financial planning company here has bought a 5,100-square-foot former church building at 711 W. Indiana on Spokane's North Side, and the two businesses plan to move into the two-story structure.The &

E-commerce startup here launches custom-shelf site

Shelfwire.com allows users to customize their shelving designs online

February 10, 2011

Chey Scott

Ergami LLC, a small Liberty Lake, Wash.-based e-commerce company, has launched a website, Shelfwire.com, to offer wire-shelf storage units that can be custom designed online.Ergami President Joe Felice contends the site's online design called is

Pro Heating's assets sold to employee

Renamed Pro Mechanical shifts focus to reducing customers' energy costs

February 10, 2011

Kim Frlan

Longtime Pro Heating & Air Conditioning Inc. employee Jon Vanos has bought the assets of the 25-year-old Spokane company for an undisclosed sum and renamed it Pro Mechanical Services Inc. The commercial heating, air conditioning, and ventilation

EWU studies find little gain in regionalizing services

Government consolidating hasn't produced significant cost savings, researchers say

February 10, 2011

Kim Crompton

City and county consolidations, although a popular topic when local governments are under extreme fiscal pressure, haven't been shown nationally to produce the savings that advocates might expect.That's the conclusion of one of two new studies a

Acme Concrete submits low bid on runway rehab

$20.3 million project will help airport meet standards

February 10, 2011

Acme Concrete Paving Inc., of Spokane, is the apparent low bidder for a $20.3 million project to reconstruct part of Runway 21 at the Spokane International Airport so it meets current international visibility standards.The project involves the a

Games on wheels

February 10, 2011

Chey Scott

Video games increasingly are becoming a means of social interaction for almost every age group, and a fairly new franchise here has captured that idea through its offering of a mobile gaming unit for all types of group events.GameTruck a of with

Apartments planned on Sprague site

Walker named contractor for $5 million housing project with retail space

February 10, 2011

Mike McLean

A Spokane nonprofit concern plans to develop a $5 million, four-story work-force housing project at 1420 E. Sprague that would include 35 apartment units and ground-floor retail space.The nonprofit, Inland Empire Residential Resources, recently

Businesses to start sustainability group

About 40 concerns said to be interested in joining; March launch is planned

February 10, 2011

Linn Parish

In coming weeks, a group of sustainability-minded Spokane-area business owners plan to launch a local chapter of a quickly growing national organization called Business Alliance For Local Living Economies, or BALLE. About 40 businesses have a

Cascade merges with Oregon firm

Window maker in Valley boosts work force to 450 with Empire Pacific deal

February 10, 2011

Kim Crompton

Cascade Windows, a longtime Spokane Valley manufacturer of vinyl windows, says it has merged with a Portland-area window maker, boosting its regional presence and enlarging its total work force to about 450 workers.Randy Emerson, Cascade and the