Through 10 decades of shifts in popular music, Spokane-based Hoffman Music Co. has stayed in tune with what customers need for instruments, ranging from swing bands of the 1930s to the high school clarinet player of today.While pianos were the a
The Downtown Spokane Partnership is seeking requests for qualifications for a design project that would beautify land around off-ramps from Interstate 90often called gateways, says Marla Nunberg, the organization's vice president. The DSP,
Eastern Washington University is considering a $25 million renovation and upgrade of the student union building on its main campus in Cheney, says Troy Bester, senior project manager for the university.EWU, located 17 miles southwest of Spokane,
Spokane-based startup Business Texter Inc., which has developed a mobile application for sending and receiving texts in large quantities, has received a fresh infusion of capital and is ramping up its operations.Company co-founder and CEO Aaron
The Inland Empire Railway Historical Society is solidifying plans to begin developing an estimated $24.5 million destination museum near Reardan, about 20 miles west of Spokane, and to pull up stakes here.It has hired Bouten Construction Co., of
As the economy rebounds, companies here eye other markets
August 15, 2013
The international business market has continued to grow in Eastern Washington and across the state over the last five years, even amid recessionary pressures, and companies here likely will engage in more trade outside U.S. borders in coming years,
Clearwater Paper Corp., the Spokane-based maker of tissue and paperboard products, is poised to increase sales in 2014 after spending the past few years developing a wider U.S. manufacturing footprint, says Linda K. Massman, president and claims to
Aug. 8 / Hecla reports $25 million lossHecla Mining Co., of Coeur d'Alene, reported a second-quarter net loss of $25 million, or 8 cents a diluted share, compared with net income of $2.4 million, or 1 cent a share, in the 2012 second quarter. in
Meetings & EventsGreater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce will hold a business connections breakfast on Friday, Aug. 16, at 6:30 a.m., at Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, 1100 N. Sullivan. The program will be Marijuana: Budding or Bad
The Spokane Public Facilities District announced this morning that its board of directors will consider at its Aug. 13 meeting approving an agreement for development of a nationally branded, high-rise convention hotel near the Spokane Convention in