When Fred Crowell and his wife, Susie, ran their first basketball camp in 1972 in the town of Cusick, Wash., 52 miles north of Spokane, they never dreamt theyd eventually be at the helm of an operation that runs camps with more than 10,000 in out

Washington Trust Bank says its in the process of selling to Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreen Co. part of a parcel of property it bought in Airway Heights last summer The Spokane bank plans to build its first Airway Heights branch on part of at

A 16-month-old Spokane company, called Condition 1 LLC, says it plans to develop a world class tactical training facility on a large acreage south of Cheney that it is negotiating to buy.As envisioned, the training center, also to be named

Jones & Mitchell Inc., a longtime Spokane insurance brokerage, says it has sold its assets to Missoula, Mont.-based Western States Insurance Inc.The Spokane brokerage, located at 123 E. Second, now is operating as a branch office of the Montana

Coldwater Creek Inc., which increased its spending on national magazine advertising by almost 80 percent last year, plans to boost its budget for national promotions in its current fiscal year by nearly a third, to $32 million, in a national also

A former employee of the Spokane-based Mr. Tux formal wear chain, which currently includes 10 stores in three states, says he and his wife have bought the operation, and are considering adding two or three more stores within the next few former Tim

Blue Water Technologies Inc., a Hayden-based developer of waste-water treatment technologies, says a Louisiana-based engineering and construction giant has bought a sizable stake in the company. The two concerns now are collaborating on projects of

Recently surging commercial-development activity on the largely undeveloped West Plains will grind to a halt if Spokane County commissioners dont reduce the size of an area there in which residential construction is banned, a couple of real with

The tax-increment financing district spawned by the planned Kendall Yards urban village could be the catalyst that helps fuel up to 18 city and county projects with an estimated cost of $21 million that reach as far north as Cora Avenue.While a

In just its first six years, PE Systems LLC, a Spokane company that helps merchants reduce the credit-card fees they pay, has exploded to employ 44 people and has developed a customer base of more than 600 clients.Among those clients, says CEO