After more than five years of research and assembly, Mark Holderman, owner and founder of Spokane-based Madpacker Packaging Systems, is ready to sell a new food packaging machine he designed and built.While working in the packaging industry for

Three partners in the Gallatin Public Affairs consulting firm and Spokane attorney Geoffrey D. Swindler have bought a building at the northeast corner of Indiana Avenue and Ruby Street through a company they've formed called Big Problem Solvers and

Steven Herrmann, a former Los Angeles-area chef, has relocated to Spokane to open a restaurant, to be called Savory, at 1314 S. Grand, on the South Hill.Herrmann says he heard of the opportunity to take the space from his friend and Spokane Josh

Streetcars, light rail, and electric trolley buses were the preferred modes of transit cited by attendees of a June 29 open house designed to solicit public comment about alternative transportation possibilities for the downtown Spokane area.The

Recently, Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, on an economic-development tour, picked cherries at a Sunnyside farm. Good idea. Washington grows more than half of the nation's sweet cherries, which have become a growth industry in the state like few has

Hatch Advertising moves to new location Hatch Advertising has moved to a new location, at 15413 E. Valley Way, in Spokane Valley.Owner Greg Hatch says the business moved from its old location, at 1120 N. Mullan, to be closer to the

Betty Lorenz and Evelyn Kamitomo, of Spokane, have opened The Dawg House, a new restaurant, at 913 E. Sharp. The eatery occupies a 1500-square-foot house that formerly was owned by Gonzaga University. Lorenz says she and Kamitomo bought the then

A North Idaho restaurateur says she plans to open a full-service eatery this month at a long-closed restaurant space just east of downtown Coeur d'Alene.The owner, Leisa Wagner, says the restaurant will be named Sherman Junction, and will occupy

Williams Northwest Pipeline, of Salt Lake City, is replacing nearly 4,000 linear feet of a natural gas transmission pipeline it owns in a hilly residential area west of Whitworth University.The company recently awarded a $1.7 million contract

Raci Erdem, owner of a Post Falls restaurant called The White House Grill and a nearby bistro and martini bar called The Oval Office, says he is expanding into the Spokane market with a White House Grill restaurant on the South Hill. Erdem says