Thabel Inc., which owns the Grocery Boys store in East Spokane, plans to build an addition onto the grocery store building, and is eyeing construction of a car wash nearby.Owner Jasbir Thabel estimates the total cost of the store addition and be

The Spokane-based Inland Northwest Community Foundation says a donor's gift of more than $1 million has enabled it to launch a new endowment fund that will benefit three Spokane nonprofit organizations in perpetuity.Annual distributions from the

Mike and Becky DeVries, owners of Spokane-based DeVries Moving Packing Storage, recently bought two East Spokane warehouses, and they plan to move the company's operations there by the end of this month.The adjacent buildings are located at 112

Hart Capital Management Inc.'s Inland Northwest Composite, which gauges the total market value of 15 publicly traded companies in the region, increased 9 percent last quarter compared with the previous quarter. Still, the composite finished well

Coldwell Banker Tomlinson and Coldwell Banker Northwest Group, both prominent Spokane-area real estate companies that formerly operated separately, have combined forces within a newly created company and have consolidated their operations in two of

Spokane-based Mines Management Inc., which is involved in acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties containing precious and base metals, says it has signed a letter of intent with Estrella Gold Corp. for an option to acquire a

A downtown parking lot, where Spokane developer Rob Brewster Jr. once had planned to erect the city's tallest building, likely will be put up for auction, says a Seattle lawyer acting as a lender's trustee.The attorney, Patrick Moran, of Russell

Trusts established to try to recoup some of the huge amount of money that investors had tied up in Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. and Summit Securities Inc. before those affiliated companies here shut down eight years ago have made a fourth

Foreclosures on deeds of trust in Spokane County rose for the fifth consecutive year in 2011, climbing 7 percent to within 40 of the peak 1,152 foreclosures recorded in 2002, auditor's office data show.The rate of increase has slowed, though, 12