Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, has returned to profitabilityat least on paperfollowing a business downturn that led to several consecutive quarters of financial losses, extensive job cuts, other cost-slashing measures, and

A young, Pennsylvania-based biotechnology company named MatriCal Inc. says it has all but decided to move to Spokane, probably by the end of this year.The company, which is located just outside of Philadelphia but also has small manufacturing in

At whats about to become Spokanes newest day-care center, youll find some common things: lots of toys, a special time-out area, and a mandatory naptime. Whats uncommon about this center, however, is who will playing, misbehaving, and of all

COEUR DALENEKootenai Medical Center is considering a $24 million expansion plan that would include adding about 87,000 square feet of floor space and a 400-stall parking garage at the busy North Idaho hospital in coming years.In the near the

Though comfortably quiet through much of the late 1990s, Spokanes retail furniture market has been getting a new look recently.Two out-of-state players, Furniture Row Cos. and Hacienda Furniture, have opened stores in the Spokane area, into a

PULLMAN, Wash.With continued strong performance in the domestic electric-utility market, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. will surpass $100 million in sales this year and says it could grow much larger as it wades deeper into sales and in

Potlatch Corp., which has posted net losses for five successive quarters, has made significant gains in curbing its costs, a securities analyst says.Even though the Spokane forest-products company posted a loss of 35 cents a share for the second

Skippers Inc., the Edmonds, Wash.-based seafood quick-service restaurant chain, could open as many as three new restaurants here, says Brad Barnett, the companys new president and CEO.As recently as 1995, the company had operated seven and a

Calvert Technologies Inc., the West Plains automated-systems integrator and manufacturer, has slashed its work force, cut other overhead expenses, and set up a creditor payoff plan to overcome recent financial woes.George C. Calvert, the CEO, be

Sullivan Road Business Park LLC, headed by Spokane real estate veteran Robert Bonuccelli, plans to move forward with a 20-acre, $10 million-to-$15 million office and light-industrial park in the Spokane Valley.The park, which is to be called the