The owner of several Little Caesars pizza stores here says he will open a Little Caesars at the former location of a Papa John's pizza store on Spokane's South Hill and hopes to open as many as three more Spokane-area locations over the next year.

Providence Physician Services Co., which is part of the Spokane-based Providence Health Care network, says it has leased the top floor of the Central Medical Office Building, north of Providence Holy Family Hospital, and plans to move three of its

Avista Corp. is expanding its call center space and, once a remodeling project there is completed, will occupy all of a building in Spokane Valley that it previously shared with a Horizon Credit Union branch.Avista bought the building, located a

A family partnership that includes the codeveloper of Northtown Square and the owners of the Downriver Grill is working on a scaled-back version of their original plan for a restaurant and retail center on Northwest Boulevard, near Audubon Park, in

Gold Reserve Inc., a Spokane-based mining exploration company that has spent nearly $300 million on a mining project in Venezuela, says now that the Venezuelan government has seized its property there, its focus will be on fighting to get whatever

OCH International Inc., the Portland-based operator of the Oil Can Henry's chain of auto lube outlets, plans to open a store in the Sundance Plaza shopping center in northwest Spokane. That will be its fourth in the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area, and

Sandpoint-based specialty women's retailer Coldwater Creek Inc. says it plans to refocus its efforts this year to emphasize direct sales of higher-end women's clothing while also opening twice as many retail stores as it did in its last fiscal says

James Parker, a Cheney real estate investor, says he has bought the land and building formerly occupied by Bonanza Ford, on the West Plains, and is looking for another commercial tenant for it.Parker says he's restoring the vacant building, at a