The Spokane Public Facilities District has bought the C.I. Shenanigans restaurant building and land downtown for $4.5 million as part of a long-range plan to develop additional convention exhibit space and meeting rooms. The restaurant is to to at

Adam Worden and his wife, Leslie, say they like to reach for the sky. Then they shoot a photo of what they see, all via remote control.With their Spokane business, Northwest Elevated Photography LLC, they say they aim to put a different angle on

Spokane-based Enduris Washington, a government cooperative that buys insurance and manages claims on behalf of member agencies, says it plans to develop a $3.2 million office building on the West Plains here.The single-story, 20,000-square-foot

Banks are heading back to the future—before the era of aggressive lending that predated today's softer economy—judging by the changed relationship between two important figures on their balance sheets.Partly because of slackening for a

SCS Refrigerated Services LLC, a big Seattle-area provider of refrigerated and frozen storage, plans to open a 100,000-square-foot cold-storage facility here this month, in the former SuperValu Inc. distribution center, in Spokane Valley.SCS has

So-called social media, Web sites that allow people to interact with one another on the Internet, are growing fast and changing the marketing and public relations game, some companies and organizations here say.People engage with social media as