Americans, we often hear, are not getting less fat, but theyre certainly getting less for fat than they used to, and thats creating problems for restaurateurs here.The two companies that pick up and recycle restaurant grease in the Inland a

Spokane and Coeur dAlene are almost certainly destined to become a combined metropolitan statistical area in the eyes of everyone from the federal government to national retailers, says a report published in August by the U.S. Census would be a a

A limited partnership formed by Spokanes Wells & Co. and Avista Development Inc., also of Spokane, plans to renovate the former Rodeway Inn City Center into a high-tech office building that would be part of whats becoming known as the Terabyte

Expansion plans announced three years ago are proceeding at the Chimney Rock Industrial Park, which is located near the intersection of Freya and Trent.Two buildings, one which will include about 28,300 square feet of floor space and another of

Clear Channel Communications Inc., a big San Antonio, Texas-based, diversified-media company that recently acquired six Spokane radio stations as part of a huge transaction, has bought a 16,500-square-foot building at 808 E. Sprague and plans to of

Empire Health Services, which owns and operates Deaconess Medical Center and Valley Hospital & Medical Center, has contracted with Cancer Care Northwest PS, a physician-owned enterprise here, to provide radiation-oncology services in Zellers, chief

A new Washington state regional archives building, which had been planned at the Riverpoint Higher Education Park just east of downtown Spokane, now likely will be built at Eastern Washington Universitys Cheney campus on about five acres near the

Baney Corp., a Bend, Ore.-based hotel developer, has begun construction of a new Oxford Suites hotel along the north bank of the Spokane River near downtown Spokane.Bruce Sleep, a project supervisor for Baney, says that the hotel, which is being

Greenstone Corp., a Spokane-based development and construction company, plans to build a $2.5 million office structure at Liberty Lake and consolidate its offices there next year.The project still is being designed, so some details havent been

Developers of the Cedar Canyon Village shopping center on Spokanes South Hill have started construction of a 116-unit apartment complex, called Cedar Canyon Villas, just east of the big shopping center along 57th Avenue.Rich Naccarato, who his