The group thats investigating building a biodiesel-processing plant here says it expects to have completed a draft business plan for the project in 90 days and hopes construction will start on the facility in early 2003.While the group has no

Two retail chains have leased new sites in neighboring buildings at the southeast corner of Sprague Avenue and Sullivan Road in the Spokane Valley.Hancock Fabrics Inc., a Tupelo, Miss.-based sewing and home-decorations retailer, has leased the &

Spokane-based Yokes Washington Foods Inc. plans to add the remodeling of a Spokane Valley supermarket to a multimillion-dollar, five-store construction-and remodeling-plan announced in pieces earlier this year.Denny York, senior vice president

Avista Corp. has quietly mothballed its Avista Power subsidiary, citing changes in the power-plant development business and the parent companys financial troubles.The subsidiarys mission was to develop so-called merchant power plants, which

John A. Osbornes ears perked up earlier this year when he heard that the boyhood home of late guitar legend Jimi Hendrix might be demolished to make way for a Seattle condominium project.The Spokane woodworker didnt have strains of Purple

As they watch the gathering clouds of a $1 billion state revenue deficit, Spokane-area business leaders and state higher-education institutions, allied in many economic-development efforts here, are hoping to keep a likely difficult 2002 session or

A Chicago-based company reportedly is considering opening a for-profit surgical hospital in Coeur dAlene in partnership with some North Idaho physicians, a move that Kootenai Medical Centers CEO says could cloud the financial picture at Coeur a

Iron Bridge LLC, of Spokane, has revamped its proposed 18-acre Iron Bridge Campus, along the Spokane River a short way east of Hamilton Street, and plans to start work next spring on the first building in the development, which in all is expected a

Mirant Corp., a multinational energy-generation and trading company based in Atlanta, has opened a Spokane office and says its looking at buying or building power plants in Washington and Oregon.The office, which is located in the WestCoast at

Country Homes Power Equipment, a longtime Spokane retailer, has leased a building in the Spokane Valley for a second location, says Garth Selden, the businesss vice president.The 5,800-square-foot building the new store will occupy is located