Docent Inc., a Silicon Valley company that cut some of its teeth while based in Spokane as Stanford Testing Systems Inc., has grown to a market capitalization fluctuating around $1 billion following a highly successful initial public offering in to

Work has begun to rebuild the east end of a strip retail center at Heritage Village, a shopping center near the Division Street Y in North Spokane.The shopping centers owner, Heritage Village Partnership, also plans within the next two to

Fast-growing Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, a Pullman, Wash., electronics manufacturer, already is planning to expand a manufacturing plant it opened just five months ago. Schweitzer Engineering will add at least 20,000 square feet of and

Smart & Final Inc., a publicly held company based in Los Angeles, has inked a deal to open a cash-and-carry warehouse grocery store on North Division in the Northgate Shopping Center.Marshall Clark, owner of Clark Pacific Real Estate Co., says &

Airway Heights LLC, a Spokane-based development company, has proposed a 225-acre mixed-use development in the city of Airway Heights that eventually could include up to 1,200 housing units, a neighborhood shopping center, and community parks, the

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, posted a loss applicable to common stockholders of about $12.4 million in its quarter ended June 30, up sharply from a $2.8 million loss in the year-earlier period, according to a recent filing in

Plans for a proposed new office tower at the southeast corner of Howard Street and Riverside Avenue in downtown Spokane have progressed with the naming of a Portland architectural firm to design the structure.The firm, Thompson Vaivoda & Inc., &

KVC Development Inc., a Spokane company that owns three hotels here and nine overall, says it plans to develop next year a Courtyard by Marriott hotel at Liberty Lake.The 90-room, four-story hotel will be located on Liberty Lake Road, just south

The group assigned to examine options for expanding the city of Spokanes convention facilities expects now to recommend that the facilities be expanded to the eastjust south of the DoubleTree Hotel Spokane City Centerrather than on the block

Early in Linda Kunzs career as a paralegal secretary, when she barely knew the difference between a plaintiff and a defendant, her organizational skills were about all that kept her afloat in the legal community.Thirty years later, armed with