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Mutu Coffee earns B corporation certification

Owner says company aspires to serve as an example for others here

March 29, 2018

Mutu Coffee Roasters LLC, an organic and fair-trade coffee roaster, recently has earned a certification enabling it to become the first B corporation to be headquartered here in Spokane. B corporations are for-profit companies that pledge to achieve s

AllWest Testing & Engineering converts to ESOP

North Idaho engineering company posted record revenue in 2017

March 29, 2018

The owners of Hayden-based AllWest Testing & Engineering LLC have sold the company to its employees via an employee stock ownership plan. 'We feel like this rewards the staff that helped get the company successful,â€ says AllWest general manager and P

Wonder Adaptive Reuse project to be fully baked by mid-year

Redevelopment to include office space, food market

March 29, 2018

A representative of a real estate ownership group that plans to expand and convert the former Wonder Bread bakery building at 821 W. Mallon says the group hopes to have all construction work on the $12 million project completed in early summer. 'We wan

Atlas Staffing starts management consulting arm

New affiliate taps expertise of former hospitality exec

March 29, 2018

Atlas Staffing Inc., a Spokane Valley-based employment staffing agency, has started a subsidiary intended to help other businesses develop their internal cultures more formally, says Atlas owner and President Joshua McKee. Culturra Business Advisors In

Gold Reserve, Venezuela share optimism about Siembra Minera

Mine project is projected to generate $20B in profit

March 29, 2018

Spokane-based mining company Gold Reserve Inc. and the government of Venezuela have expressed optimism after initial test results in the South American nation show the Siembra Minera mine could prove to be as lucrative as the company has long believed.

Greenstone plans podium project at Kendall Yards

$50 million development to include two mixed-use structures, parking garage

March 29, 2018

Mike McLean

Greenstone Corp., the Liberty Lake-based real estate development company, has started the permitting process for a $50 million phase of construction in Kendall Yards urban village, on the north bluff of the Spokane River gorge northwest of downtown Spokan

Lanzce Douglass buys land downtown

High-rise projects proposed previously at old Midas site

March 29, 2018

Samantha Peone

Riverpoint Campus Apartments LLC, a company owned by Spokane developer Lanzce Douglass, has purchased the former Downtown Midas Muffler site at the southeast corner of Division Street and Spokane Falls Boulevard, says Ryan Layton, a commercial real estate

Hotel Indigo is still a go in downtown Spokane

Former Otis interior is about two-thirds demolished

March 29, 2018

When reached by phone by the Journal, Portland, Ore.-based real estate developer Curtis Rystadt was standing in line at Portland International Airport waiting to a board a plane to Atlanta for a kickoff party Hotel Indigo was throwing for owners and soon-

Riverfront Park work proceeds

Focus now shifts to design, work on pavilion, promenade

March 29, 2018

The most visible places where the general public can see changes to Riverfront Park downtown are along and around the areas of west Spokane Falls Boulevard and north Washington Street. Along those two streets, and through the southern portion of the park

Longtime Spokane law practices merge to form Feltman Ewing

New firm expands in Paulsen Center

March 29, 2018

Samantha Peone

Seasoned Spokane law firms Feltman, Gebhardt, Greer & Zeimantz PS and Ewing Anderson PS merged earlier this year to form Feltman Ewing PS, says J.P. Diener, shareholder attorney and member of the executive committee. The practice also is expanding its of