The city of Spokane plans to take a look at the potential to encourage property owners to assemble adjacent vacant pieces of land into parcels of 10 to 25 acreslarge enough to attract new and expanding businesses.The idea is for the city to an

Rosauers Supermarkets Inc., of Spokane, is completing a market study along the busy U.S. 2 corridor in the Mead area to help it decide whether the area can support a new Super 1 Foods store.Bill Haraldson, executive vice president at Rosauers, a

Obie Media Corp., the Eugene, Ore.-based company that earlier this year went on a wall mural painting spree in and around downtown Spokane, has been selected by Spokane Transit Authority to provide transit advertising services here.Obie says it

Thoen Publishing Co., a longtime Spokane commercial printing company, plans to move its production department to Airway Heights from its main Spokane building at 1409 N. Maple. The company, which was acquired by Davenport, Iowa-based Lee Inc. a

The products that come out of a nondescript brick building in Spokanes Logan neighborhood are full of holes, but the business that makes them is solid. Its focus is producing one perfectly palatable pastrythe doughnut.Sue Teague and her in a

SeaMed Corp., a big Redmond-based contract manufacturer of medical devices that disclosed last summer it was considering Spokane for a new plant, now says such a plant could employ as many as 300 people.W. Robert Berg, SeaMeds president and it

State and local government agencies plan transportation projects in the Spokane area over the next three years that could add up to as much as $220 million in work.That total, from the Spokane Regional Transportation Councils recently adopted

After one year at the helm of Mount Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, Kirk Duncan is confident that the year-old ski hill operation he heads is on track.Hired in September 1997 by Mount Spokane 2000, the nonprofit organization that won the rights to

Gonzaga Preparatory School, a private Spokane high school, has developed a list of construction projects it would like to launch in coming years, and has embarked on a fund-raising campaign to help pay for those projects as well as boost the says a