Spokane United Methodist Homes, a Spokane nonprofit corporation that oversees two big retirement communities here, has asked the Washington state Housing Finance Commission to issue $28.5 million in tax-exempt bonds to finance two construction and

Spokane surgeon Dr. Robert Golden has begun performing a minimally invasive, laparoscopic kidney-removal procedure here that allows living kidney donors to recover in much less time than typically has been required after conventional has performed

Greg Jeffreys, who began framing houses here at a young age, enjoyed the work so much that he had started his own subcontracting company by the time he graduated from University High School in 1978. He never dreamed, though, that his passion for 40

State National Bank, of Garfield, Wash., plans to open a second branch office in Spokane early next year and will move some of its administrative functions there from Garfield.Stan Yarbrough, State Nationals chief financial officer, declines a

Mark Leonard and Schade Towers LLC, the company he formed to own and redevelop the former Schade Brewery building on East Trent Avenue here, have filed suit in Spokane County Superior Court against United Security Bank, of Spokane.In the suit, a

Mumms The Word Inc., a Spokane-based crafts-publishing and art-design company here headed by country-style designer Debbie Mumm, is expanding its facility on Spokanes North Side to accommodate dramatic growth experienced this year.Steve the

Spokane development company Worthy Enterprises Inc. is planning another office-building conversion project here.The company recently bought the 36,000-square-foot, former Rosauers supermarket building at 8517 E. Trent in the Spokane Valley and a

Despite indications that some new stores planned by Rite Aid Corp. elsewhere are being halted or delayed, two new North Spokane outlets for the Camp Hill, Pa.-based drug-store chain are expected to proceed, say Spokane developers who are working on

Waste Management of Spokane plans to move its administrative offices from Mead to a building in the Spokane Valley in the wake of an acquisition by its parent company of the assets of Western Refuse Co., of Airway Heights.Waste Management will a

Calkins Manufacturing Co., the longtime Spokane maker of boat trailers, plans to close its doors Dec. 31 and transfer the companys assets to its parent, Calkins Fluid Power Inc., also of Spokane.Jim Calkins, president of both companies, says a