General Growth Properties Inc., the ailing Chicago-based owner of three of the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area's largest shopping malls, has been granted a few more weeks to repay or refinance $900 million in mortgage loans that were due about a month a

Mike Taylor, former partner and president at Spokane-based Taylor Engineering Inc., has become the city of Spokane's new director of engineering services, replacing Tom Arnold, who left to take a job at the Spokane office of Coffman Engineers "I I

In two separate actions, a Spokane County Superior Court judge has blocked until March 5 trustees' sales of two portions of the Clare House senior housing complex on the South Hill. Trustees' sales of the two properties, owned by Clare House LP,

Hydrafab Northwest Inc., a growing Spokane-based metal fabricating company, has leased a 16,000-square-foot space in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park and has moved there from a 9,000-square-foot leased facility at 4809 E. Trent.Hydrafab is

Jeffery Johnson and Kelly Snyder, co-owners of S&S Engine Remanufacturing Co. and Jones Automotive Engines Inc., have combined the two companies and now are operating them under the name S&J Engines Inc.Also, Snyder says he and Johnson are in of

River Ridge Food 4 Less, a northwest Spokane grocery store that opened a year ago, has closed its doors, and a member of the family who owns it says it suffered from poor business volume and undercapitalization.Separately, an affiliated venture,

The Washington state appellate court has overturned a 2007 Spokane County Superior Court summary judgment against Spokane's Camp Automotive Inc. and its Medford, Ore.-based parent, Lithia Motors Inc., that found Camp illegally added a state tax to

Oklahoma City-based Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc. says it has bought 10 acres of land in the Expo at Post Falls multiuse development north of Interstate 90 in west Post Falls, where it plans to build a 24-hour truck stop, with a fueling

West Plains auto dealer Bonanza Ford has closed its doors, and its inventory has been repossessed.The dealership, located at the Four Lakes-Cheney interchange with Interstate 90, is owned by Bonanza Ford Inc., which moved the operation there in