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Got onion slicing goggles?

October 15, 2009

Gadgets," Eric Frickle answers enthusiastically, when asked what The Kitchen Engine, in the Flour Mill retail development, sells more of than anything else. "We sell more gadgets and tools than you can imagine." Frickle, 27, is president and of

Big, Texas-style restaurant sets Cd'A location

Company expects to hire about 160 people there, plans to open in March

October 15, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Texas Roadhouse Inc., a Louisville, Ky.-based restaurant chain that specializes in steaks and spareribs, plans to open a large outlet in Coeur d'Alene in March and will employ about 160 people there.Texas Roadhouse has 330 restaurants in 46 in a

Sterling opens call center in Liberty Lake

Spokane bank offers customer service via phone, e-mail at former FirstBank location

October 15, 2009

Mike McLean

Spokane-based Sterling Savings Bank says it's converting a former FirstBank Northwest branch building in Liberty Lake into a call center.The call center, which Sterling calls a customer resource center, occupies a 2,800-square-foot single-story

Fabric chain plans larger Valley outlet

Jo-Ann Stores to move its outlet on Sprague into former Circuit City space

October 15, 2009

Mike McLean

Jo-Ann Stores Inc., the Hudson, Ohio-based specialty retailer that does business here as Jo-Ann Fabrics & Crafts, has leased most of a building that formerly housed a Circuit City Stores Inc. outlet near the Spokane Valley Mall, says a commercial &

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Finding buyer for Hitler's rolling stock

Spokane entrepreneur helping market cars owned by Nazi dictator

October 15, 2009

Kim Crompton

Spokane inventor and entrepreneur John Adrain, who has collector-car auction experience and what he describes as a long history of "horse trading," is helping to market three resurrected World War II-era Mercedes-Benz cars designed and built for at

Will business embrace new Windows 7?

New computer operating system might prompt XP users to skip over Vista

October 15, 2009

Mike McLean

Windows 7, the new operating system that software giant Microsoft Corp. plans to release worldwide next week, is getting much more positive reviews from business computer experts here than its predecessor, Windows Vista, which many companies never

Driving future development

Developers say North Spokane Corridor offers opportunities

October 15, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Developers here predict an uptick in residential and commercial development around the first three interchanges of what eventually will become Spokane's north-south freeway, but say progress will be slow and flavored by the mix of land uses already

Douglass eyes big housing project

50-acre Indian Trail development to have 183 houses, 24 duplexes

October 15, 2009

Mike McLean

Spokane developer Harlan Douglass is proposing a 231-unit housing development in the Indian Trail neighborhood on the North Side.The development, to be called Hunt's Pointe, would be located on 50 acres of land west of Indian Trail Road, about a

In the News: October 15, 2009

October 15, 2009

Oct. 13 / Employment dips further here Nonagricultural wage and salary employment in the Spokane metropolitan area fell to 204,700 in September, down 15,100 jobs from the September 2008 level, according to preliminary Washington state

October 15-29, 2009

October 15, 2009

Meetings & Events The Inland Northwest Multimedia Users Group will hold a meeting on Thursday, Oct. 15, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., in the Sirti Board Room at 665 N. Riverpoint Blvd., in Spokane. Guest speaker Eric Stanley will give a on 2