Cd'A restaurateur opening new venue Fotini Tsakarestos, whose sons, Jim and Peter, own Santorini's Greek Cuisine, at 112 N. Howard, in the Parkade Plaza in downtown Spokane, says she plans to open a restaurant by the same name in Coeur

M. Duane Nellis, the recently appointed 17th president for the University of Idaho, in Moscow, told us during a get-acquainted visit to Spokane last month that, "One of the things that's most important to me is creating a more entrepreneurial says

The owners of four Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area restaurants, including The Elk Public House, in Browne's Addition, are planning to open a fifth eatery—this one a taco and tequila bar called El Que, says Marshall Powell, who will manage it.He

A Washington state appellate court panel here has reversed a Spokane County Superior Court decision and denied a woman's attempt to reopen a workers' compensation claim due to what she alleged was a worsening of her disability.Under Washington

Minera Andes Inc., a Canadian mining exploration company that has maintained its headquarters in Spokane since its inception about 15 years ago, says it plans to move its executive offices to Toronto by the end of September.The office here, at a

As he negotiates the sale of his property to the city of Spokane for its planned Riverside Avenue extension project, the owner of longtime Spokane flooring wholesaler InterDecor Inc. has bought a new building and plans a $1 million-plus project to

Dan Barton, who owned a Coeur d'Alene car dealership for nearly 30 years before selling the franchise in 2004, says he now is the owner of the new Ace Hardware store that's set to open this month in the Wandermere area in Spokane.The new store,

An affiliate of a Phoenix developer has begun work on a $1.6 million, 10,200-square-foot strip center near the WinCo Foods Inc. supermarket on Spokane's far north side.Kilgore Construction Inc., of Colbert, is the contractor on the project, is

RiverBank, which opened here in 2006, posted an $80,000 second-quarter loss, after factoring in a $266,000 added provision for loan losses and a $65,000 Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. special assessment.Still, the bank had net earnings of the a

Churchill's Steakhouse, an upscale restaurant downtown that has been closed for more than a year due to fire damage, plans to reopen following an estimated $1 million interior reconstruction project, extensive plans filed with the city of Spokane &