The leadership landscape in Spokane is changing as a handful of pivotal organizations search for new executives to head up their efforts. Threethe Downtown Spokane Partnership, the Spokane Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the of a

Developers and Kootenai Medical Center are snatching up properties in the Ironwood Drive medical corridor west of the Coeur dAlene hospital, and prices for property there are surging, says Monte Risvold, a real estate executive with Tomlinson of

Early next month, Coeur dAlene-based Blue Water Technologies Inc. hopes to prove to skeptics of the phosphate-removal technology its taking to market that its willing to put its money where its mouth is.That, says company President a

Lydig Construction Inc., of Spokane, has landed an $11.4 million prison-complex upgrade project at the Washington State Penitentiary, in Walla Walla. The job involves improving security features in a three-building medium-security complex so it

A nonprofit groups planned renovation of the 74-year-old Fox Theater in downtown Spokane would preserve one of the remaining examples of the work of Anthony Heinsberger, a prominent early 20th Century architect who designed the interiors of the a

Just east of downtown Spokane, nondescript Sprague Avenue and the nearby railroad tracks do little to inspire thoughts of romantic Florence, Italy.In the future, though, a grand bridge structure reminiscent of the Ponte Vecchio in with cafes a

Mario & Son Inc., a Spokane Valley stone fabricator, wants to carve out a larger share of the market here for granite, marble, glass, and quartz surfaces used to class up homes and commercial buildings.To achieve that end, the 14-year-old is a

ASC Machine Tools Inc., a longtime Spokane Valley-based manufacturer, so far is having its best year in a decade, says co-owner and President Ray McGriff.ASC primarily manufactures equipment that handles aluminum and steel coils, or big rolls a

Jensen Distribution Services, the big Spokane-based hardware distributor, suffered a huge blow about eight years ago when Ernst Home Center Inc., a Seattle-based retail chain with more than 50 stores, ceased operating. Ernst had accounted for more

A Spokane couple say they plan this summer to open a nonprofit events facility, to be called the Service Station, along Nevada Street on Spokanes North Side, and work on the $1.9 million building that will house it is under way.Scot Robinson,