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One-stop sustainability shop

April 7, 2011

Residents of Spokane who seek to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle have a new resource of knowledge on green living and purchasing environmentally sound products—Sun People Dry Goods Co. Juliet Sinisterra, Sun People's primary owner, says

Ace Hardware store planned on South Hill

Outlet scheduled to open this summer in former Jones Pharmacy space

April 7, 2011

Treva Lind

An Ace Hardware store is slated to take a former Jones Pharmacy & Home Health Care space in a South Hill retail center anchored by a Huckleberry's Natural Market.EaglePointe Construction & Management Inc. owner David Shea says the company is way

Parker buys Post Falls Subaru dealership

Arrotta family scales back to concentrate on Chrysler, Nissan lines

April 7, 2011

Mike McLean

Parker Automotive Inc., the longtime Coeur d'Alene-based concern that owns the Parker Toyota dealership there, has bought the Subaru dealership in Post Falls and has renamed it Parker Subaru.The dealership, formerly Select Subaru, at 811 N. had

Mining firm posts jump in income

Prices for silver, copper help boost Revett's profits after a net loss in 2009

April 7, 2011

Treva Lind

Spokane Valley-based mining company Revett Minerals Inc. has reported significant improvement in its financial results for 2010, posting net income of $4.4 million, or 16 cents a share, compared with a 2009 net loss of $4.9 million, or 23 cents a a

City works to smooth path for business

Seven In Eleven program involves goals to smooth permit, approval processes

April 7, 2011

Treva Lind

The city of Spokane has launched a new program, called Seven in Eleven, to improve the small-business climate within the city. Two early focuses of the program, named for the seven goals the initiative sets out to accomplish in 2011, involve for

Telect moves Liberty Lake headquarters

Electronics manufacturer to beef up its engineering department as sales grow

April 7, 2011

Chey Scott

Telect Inc., the Liberty Lake-based developer and manufacturer of telecommunications-connectivity equipment, moved its headquarters April 1 to a larger leased space about a half-mile away from its previous location.The move to a structure at E.

Drought ends at Riverstone

$22.7 million in projects slated at once-struggling development

April 7, 2011

Mike McLean

John Stone may have handed over the reins recently of Spokane-based SRM Development LLC, a real estate development company he cofounded in 2000, but before he retires, he says, he wants to see one more grand vision through: Riverstone.In recent

Large apartment projects eyed

Moran Prairie complexes would include 502 units

April 7, 2011

Mike McLean

Three apartment projects with a total of 502 living units and a combined construction value totaling at least $48.2 million are in various planning stages on the Moran Prairie atop Spokane's South Hill.The largest project, in terms of total is a

Historically volatile, some tech stocks are now strong, sound

Most recent price run-up has better fundamentals behind it than past peaks

April 7, 2011

Andrew Leckey

Why do tech stocks build us up just to let us down?Technology's track record is one of dramatic peaks and valleys for its investors. However, its most recent run-up seems to have more fundamentals behind it than many of the past periods of for a

In the News: April 7, 2011

April 7, 2011

April 5 / ReliOn garners more funding ReliOn Inc., the Spokane-based maker of backup power systems that use hydrogen fuel-cell technology, announced that it has secured an additional $6 million in equity financing through current It it