SL Start Co., a Spokane for-profit company working largely in markets dominated by nonprofits and government agencies, is growing at an aggressive clip and quietly has emerged as a significant employer here.The company places disadvantaged in I

At the afternoon exercise class at Rockwood Retirement Communities South Hill campus, the pace is anything but pedestrian. Roughly 15 seniors march in place, practice balancing, perform low-impact aerobics, and lift weights. Instructor Brenda

Touchmark Living Centers Inc., the Beaverton, Ore.-based operator of the Waterford on South Hill retirement community, is proceeding with the first phase of a planned $20 million, 60-home independent-living project near its main campus.The has

Key Tronic Corp. says its base of contract-manufacturing customers continued to grow in its latest fiscal year, while its dependence on its largest customers declined for the third straight year.The Spokane-based contract manufacturer and maker

Wells Fargo Bank has added a number of business bankers and increased its retail branch staffing here substantially over the last year, says Don Young, who became its community bank president here in April 2003.Young says Wells Fargo had three

B&C Telephone Inc., a Spokane-based company that sells and services commercial telephone systems, has merged with inTouch Solutions, a Boise-based telecommunication company.The terms of the Oct. 1 transaction werent disclosed, says William of

Avista Advantage, a third-party manager of other businesses utility and other facility-related bills, has added two new clients that together operate more than 8,000 locations nationwide.Spokane-based Avista Advantage, a subsidiary of Avista

Wheatland Bank, of Spokane, has chosen the Pine Water Plaza development as the location of its North Side branch and still is looking at potential sites for a new branch on the citys south side.Wheatland Bank President and CEO Susan Pittman a

A group of Spokane investors plans to develop a multimillion-dollar office building in the University of Idaho Research Park, in Post Falls, next year.The envisioned structure would be built on a two-acre site just north of the University of at

A Spokane development company has bought the former Ashley Gardens at Fairwood retirement complex on Spokanes North Side and three acres of vacant land nearby.The company, Alpol Enterprises LLC, has landed tenants for the bulk of the space in