Dan Mathews remembers how things were when he worked at an advertising agency before he and partner Jeff Culver started the Focus Group Inc. in 1997.Mathews recalls that the agencys creative team would have its first meeting with a client, to

George Gee Automotive has begun site work for a new Hummer dealership facility and off-road test track just east of its main, multi-dealership building in Liberty Lake.The planned 5,700-square-foot building, which is expected to cost more than

Extreme Machine 2000 Inc., a Leavenworth, Wash.-based company, appears to have suspended or scrapped plans to open a facility here to manufacture all-terrain amphibious vehicles. The startup company and the Spokane Area Economic Development in

Spokane-based Book & Game Co. has entered the Seattle market by opening one of its Uncles Games, Puzzles & More outlets in Redmond Town Center.The small retail chain, which sells a variety of unusual and specialty games, puzzles, and playing

Rockwood Clinic PS, in cooperation with Cancer Care Northwest PS, plans to open a cancer treatment center on the Deaconess Medical Center campus later this year.Rockwood, a major physicians group here, has leased 10,400 square feet of floor &

Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, has landed a $4.5 million contract to erect five buildings at a new gold mine in Alaska.The new mining operation, called the Pogo Mine, will located near Delta Junction, which is about 90 miles southeast of

A Seattle family trust has started work on a $1.5 million industrial building at the Chimney Rock Industrial Park, in East Spokane, and plans to break ground on a smaller, $500,000 structure there later this month.Those buildings, being by the

A fast-growing Chicago-area real estate investment trust has bought for $54.5 million the big Northpointe Plaza shopping center, on Spokanes far North Side.The company, Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust Inc., completed the transaction a

Though Allen Tower has helped design a backyard owned by a well-known businessman here and has provided plant materials to an eminent botanical garden in Colorado, he doesnt hanker for recognition.Tower, who owns Spokane-based Tower Perennial

The city of Spokane has received an offer to buy City Hall.In addition, city officials have talked with a second potential buyer that said it soon will submit an offer to buy the seven-story building, at 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd., and a third