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Workforce council launches career awareness initiative

Inspire Washington website set up to serve as venue for interaction

July 5, 2012

The Spokane Area Workforce Development Council has launched a career awareness initiative named Inspire Washington that aims to help job seekers, students, and teachers connect online with businesses, career professionals, and volunteers. The is

Russell Mining moves into Chase Financial Center

Russell Mining enters lease of larger downtown space; is involved in two projects

July 5, 2012

Treva Lind

Russell Mining & Minerals Inc., a Spokane-based mine development company, has moved to the Chase Financial Center downtown.The company, which employs about 20 people, relocated to 11,500 square feet on the sixth floor of the building, at 601 W.

Cd'A software firm tests iPad menus at big chain

HubWorks Interactive to grow this year, founders say

July 5, 2012

Chey Scott

A young Coeur d'Alene-based technology startup is seeing early success with a suite of software it's developed that's aimed at business in the hospitality and restaurant industry. The company's founders say its software platform is designed to a

Making groovy music

July 5, 2012

Treva Lind

Jimmy Hill, co-owner of the music recording studio Amplified Wax, remains at least partially plugged into a 1970s-era groove.While equipped with top industry digital recording equipment, the 2,200-square-foot studio in the Garland District also

Clearwater Paper says court decision allows plant plants to advance

Lawsuit doesn't impede delivery of key equipment to North Carolina facility

July 5, 2012

Linn Parish

Clearwater Paper Corp., the Spokane-based maker of tissue and paperboard products, says a recent U.S. District Court decision will enable the company to move forward with a major component of its new tissue manufacturing and converting facility in

Good Spirits plans stores on North Side, in Spokane Valley

Five Mile, Valley outlets slated to open this month; additional locations eyed

July 5, 2012

Chey Scott

Wenatchee, Wash.-based Good Spirits LLC, which was established just before voters passed Initiative 1183 to privatize liquor sales last November, plans to open two new Spokane-area liquor superstores in the coming weeks. Ted Eaton, Good Spirits'

Spokane Public Schools moves ahead with $14 million skills center addition

Also, Central Valley plans $3.3 million tech facility in old Rite Aid at U City

July 5, 2012

Mike McLean

Spokane Public Schools says it's a big step closer to building a $14 million addition to the NewTech Skills Center in Hillyard, and the Central Valley School District separately expects to call for contractor bids this month to ready a tech branch

Village Centre Cinemas, other movie theaters go digital

Theaters do full conversion to stay relevant as industry phases out 35-mm reel film

July 5, 2012

Treva Lind

Village Centre Cinemas Wandermere, a 14-screen complex, soon will equip one of its theater rooms with a high-tech, 45-foot-wide screen and a larger projector for 3-D movies.This final piece is all that remains to finish a conversion of the North

Scafco to build plant in East Spokane

City is reviewing plans for $5.7 million facility for making steel studs

July 5, 2012

Mike McLean

Scafco Corp., which operates two Spokane-area manufacturing facilities, is seeking a building permit to construct a new $5.7 million steel stud manufacturing plant at the former site of the Playfair horse racing track in East Spokane, plans under a

Spokane businesses fight to thwart graffiti

Property owners say removing it quickly is most effective

July 5, 2012

Chey Scott

Driving through Spokane on the city's main arterials, it's not difficult to notice the deliberate, spray-painted scribbles and markings of illegal graffiti on buildings, signs, light posts, overpasses, and even in some residential Spokane-area and