The master plan is finished, the sales pitch is polished, and the search is in full swing for private developers and public money to make the University District here a reality. Advocates of the U Districta mix of city of Spokane employees, U

Century Publishing Co., of Post Falls, is investing $1.3 million in new equipment and building upgrades this year, has broken monthly sales records three times so far in 2005, and is planning to recruit 30 additional employees.Mike Urquhart, is

Spokane Rock Products Inc., of Spokane Valley, is the apparent low bidder on a Washington state Department of Transportation project to resurface both legs of the Division-Ruby couplet here, from the Spokane River north to just beyond where the two

A Nine Mile Falls businessman has proposed developing 17 industrial lots on 10 acres in Airway Heights.The businessman, Richard Stimson, who owns a hole-drilling business in Nine Mile Falls called DW Polehole Co., says hes in the final stages

A state program aimed at stimulating job growth and business investment in areas where income levels are below the state average is generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings for companies here and is the most active of six such in the

Buried deep in the city of Spokanes six-year transportation plan is a proposed $18 million project to replace the big, 94-year-old bridge that carries Sunset Boulevard over the Latah Creek gorge west of downtown.Theres no time line listed a

Sacred Heart Medical Center, of Spokane, is in negotiations with Spokane Public Schools to buy the former Lewis & Clark High School play field two blocks north of the hospitals sprawling campus.Spokane Public Schools solicited offers to buy a

Wandermere Estates LLC, a development company led by Spokane builder Dick Vandervert, plans to push development in the Wandermere area farther north with an office park and a large apartment complex.The projects will cost about $10 million each

When Joanie Lamm and her husband Jim, moved to Chattaroy, Wash., from Las Vegas to settle into semi-retirement, then bought two Belgian horses, she never dreamed she eventually would be feeding 25 pounds of hay a day to each of their 18 draft Lamms

Roses & More Inc., of Spokane, is giving new meaning in the Inland Northwest to the phrase flower power. Already the regions largest floral wholesaler, the company has bought the operating assets of its largest competitor, Glacier Floral