A Spokane developer has received approval for a 35-lot residential subdivision on Five Mile Prairie, but says he likely won't start work on the project for a year or two due to the slow housing market.The developer, Dennis Trainor, doing as LLC,

Ken and Helen Mullinax, who own Mattress Outlet Inc., of Spokane, have converted two Simmons Comfort World stores they owned, in Spokane Valley and Kennewick, Wash., to Mattress Outlet stores.The Valley store, located in leased space at 15607 E.

A longtime Spokane developer plans to develop 116 residential lots just south of the city of Spokane Valley.The subdivision, to be called Belleaire, would be located on 40 acres north of Daystar road near Apollo Road, says Casey Mason, project

William Gilcrist, owner of Castle Rock Industries Inc., says he's in the process of selling that Spokane company's production facility, has let go most of its 27 employees, and has sold off the equipment it used to make wood components for other at

Spokane bankers are eyeing with some skepticism the federal government's offer to provide capital to some U.S. banks by becoming investors in them.As the first deadline approaches on Nov. 14 to apply for the government's so- called Capital Plan,

By Jeanne GustafsonThe Spokane Public Facilities District has selected ALSC Architects PS, of Spokane, to perform a feasibility study of the so-called "south block" property downtown where it hopes to expand.The property, which is bounded by Main

Potlatch Corp., the big Spokane-based wood-products concern, says the national credit crisis has forced it to change how it will finance the planned spin-off of its pulp-based operations into a new publicly traded company called Clearwater Paper it

General Growth Properties Inc., the Chicago-based owner of three of the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area's largest shopping malls, has taken dramatic steps in the last couple of weeks to try to ease a massive debt burden that analysts say is threatening