Some people call Gabriel J. Mendez a doctor of salsa.Actually, his doctorate is in Latin American history, but when he couldnt find a college-level teaching job within commuting distance of Spokane, he made salsa his business.He founded in

Rahco International Inc., the longtime Spokane industrial manufacturer, has landed two contracts to design and build mining and canal-building equipment worth a combined about $21 million. That work comes on the heels of delivering another about of

POST FALLSA Coeur dAlene-based partnership wants to leverage the draw of the soon-to-be-built Wal-Mart store here by embarking on two commercial developments near the stores site that would have a combined value of $24 million. Real estate a

Garco Development Services, of Spokane, is developing a speculative, 36,000-square-foot industrial building at Liberty Lake for a California investor.The two-story, concrete-walled structure is being erected at the far east end of Metropolitan &

Schweitzer Mountain Resort, located near Sandpoint, is drawing up plans to install a second high-speed, six-person chairlift on the ski hill this summer, although it wont decide whether to do so until April. The proposed $3.2 million project a

A proposed retail strip center west of the Spokane Valley Mall might house T.J. Maxx, Sportsmans Warehouse, and Linens n Things outlets, according to a grading-permit application that Salt Lake City-based mall owner JP Realty Inc. has filed in

Michael Nowling, who last month resigned his post as president of the Heart Institute of Spokane, has signed a letter of intent to buy the assets of Family Home Care, a Spokane home health-care provider with nearly 200 employees.Nowling has to &

A Spokane developer has agreed to buy the former Louisiana-Pacific Corp. mill site in Post Falls for $1.7 million, the real estate broker who is handling the planned transaction says.The Hayden Lake-based broker, Bill Robinette, of Coeur Banker

BFGoodrich Aerospace, a division of the big Charlotte, N.C.-based BFGoodrich Co. that makes carbon brake disks for aircraft brakes at its West Plains plant, expects to double its employment here this year to more than 100 employees.Ben Duncan, a