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Three concerns here team up on data-protection efforts

Companies now offer cyber-security services to clients across the U.S.

July 1, 2010

A corporate-data security company, an insurance broker, and a human-resources service, all based here, are working together to help clients across the country prevent the loss or theft of sensitive information, or survive such a loss if it Inc., a

Serving as the doorkeeper

10-year-old Camtek says it has thrived by focusing on technology, customer service

July 1, 2010

Kim Frlan

It's been 10 years and countless security system installations since then-startup Camtek Inc. sold its first access-control system with biometric readers, and it landed that sale with a relatively big fish—Avista Corp. subsidiary Avista known

Borrowers caused foreclosure crisis, researchers find

Predatory lending played role, they say, but mostly households overreached

July 1, 2010

News Wise

As the president and members of Congress consider possible home-mortgage consumer protection, policymakers and analysts continue to dispute causes of the 2007-2008 foreclosure crisis, which triggered a much deeper and more serious financial crisis

State housing finance agency, nonprofit launch retrofit fund

$2 million pool to loan project money to owners of multifamily properties

July 1, 2010

Enterprise Community Partners Inc. and the Washington state Housing Finance Commission (WSHFC) have joined forces to create the Washington Green Communities Retrofit Loan Fund, a $2 million financing pool available to owners of multifamily housing

Real Estate Roundup

July 1, 2010

Mike McLean

Anything Wireless, a Sprint cell phone service and products dealer, has leased 1,600 square feet of retail space for a new outlet in the Heritage Village shopping center, at 9327 N. Newport Highway. Colin Conway and Chris Siemens, both of NAI the a

Rendering courtesy of Architects West Inc.

Church headquarters here rebuilding on previous site

Seventh-day Adventist offices destroyed by fire west of Spokane in 2008

July 1, 2010

Kim Frlan

Leone & Keeble Inc., of Spokane, has begun work on an $8.5 million building at 3715 S. Grove Road, just west of Spokane, to house the Seventh-day Adventist's Upper Columbia Conference headquarters. The church's previous headquarters building burned

Final phase of Greenacres sewer install to begin soon

MDM Construction bids $2.3 million for project in city of Spokane Valley

July 1, 2010

Kim Frlan

MDM Construction Inc., of Hayden, Idaho, has submitted an apparent low bid of $2.3 million for the fourth and final phase of a multiyear sewering project in the Greenacres area. The project, which will entail installing 3.8 miles of eight-inch more

Rendering courtesy of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP

WSU launches $35 million building project - Art only

July 1, 2010

Work has started on a $35 million Global Animal Health Building on the Washington State University campus, in Pullman, Wash. Bouten Construction Co., of Spokane, is the construction manager and general contractor on the 62,000-square-foot, three-

Rite Aid store here sports new design

July 1, 2010

Chey Scott

Rite Aid Corp. says its new store at 12222 E. Sprague, in Spokane Valley was designed using the chain's relatively new "Customer World" layout.The 16,000-square-foot store, at the southwest corner of Sprague Avenue and Pines Road, replaced an at

Kalispels develop store, gas stop next to Northern Quest

Project is on part of land where the tribe envisions mixed-use development

July 1, 2010

Kim Crompton

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians is developing a convenience store and gas station on part of a large parcel of land it owns just south of its recently expanded Northern Quest Resort & Casino, in Airway Heights, where it has said it envisions a Inc.,