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A new style of brokerage

Choice Realty Spokane moves, expands downtown, offers nontraditional Realtor fees
Ben Rascoff
Choice Realty Spokane, a residential real estate brokerage that offers its agents a lower-cost alternative to conventional agent commission arrangements, has moved into an about 800-square-foot space on the first floor of the Minnesota Building, at
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Lydig lands projects worth $118 million

Work around state includes high school, private jail expansion
Mike McLean
Spokane-based Lydig Construction Inc. has landed three jobs around the state with a combined value of $118 million.The projects, which are in various stages of planning and construction, include a $75 million high school complex in Kirkland, a a
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WSU plans specialty vet clinic here

New facility would offer 'outpatient' care in fields like dermatology, dentistry
Jeanne Gustafson
Washington State University says it plans to open a satellite veterinary clinic in Spokane's University District by next winter.Lydig Construction Inc., of Spokane, is the apparent low bidder, with a base bid of just over $1 million, to renovate
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Lenders give big mall owner more time to pay huge debt

Parent of NorthTown, Valley, Silver Lake now faces Feb. 12 deadline
Kim Crompton
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
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New Spokane engineering services chief takes helm

Mike Taylor started at city last month after retiring from Taylor Engineering
David Cole
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
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Court stops Clare House trustee sale

Partnership seeks time to sell distressed parcels as a unit to retain value
Jeanne Gustafson
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,
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Hydrafab Northwest Inc. moves its headquarters to SBIP

Growing metal fabricator relocates from East Trent; park gets three other tenants
David Cole
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
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Two engine remanufacturing businesses here combine

Owners meld S&S Engine, Jones Automotive to form Spokane's S&J Engines Inc.
David Cole
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
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River Ridge store closes after one year

Affiliated Sunshine Dairy files under Chapter 7 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court
Jeanne Gustafson
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,
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Auto dealership wins appeal of judgment over B&O tax

Suit alleged that Camp broke law by adding tax surcharge to car price
Ben Rascoff
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
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