Columbia Lighting Inc., the Spokane-based maker of fluorescent lighting fixtures, plans to add about 70 people to its work force here within the next month so it can manufacture an additional product line.The new full-time workers will bring in

A trio of developers from the Tacoma, Wash., area plans to develop a multimillion-dollar business park on part of the still-vacant property on the West Plains where Spokane-based Inland Power & Light Co. sought unsuccessfully for years to develop a

Spokanes Alloy Trailers Inc., which says its one of the two largest remaining full-line manufacturers of over-the-road truck trailers in the Western U.S., is trying to steer back into profitability after trimming its financial load.Weighted

Willi Aigner, a Portland, Ore., man who owns an indoor soccer facility there, plans to open a similar facility in the Spokane Valley by fall, says Brian Dreves, who will manage the soccer center here.The facility, which will be called the Soccer

Dealers Auto Auction of Spokane, a 6-year-old vehicle wholesaler, has been in its new, enlarged auction facility on the West Plains for only about two yearsand its already expanding.Its adding three sales lanes to the facilitys auction a

The Washington state Department of Health has denied a joint certificate of need application by Sacred Heart Medical Center and Holy Family Hospital for a 25-bed transitional-care unit at Holy Family.In transitional care, a short-term, is for to

Greg Green, a Spokane telecommunications entrepreneur and former Nextlink Communications Inc. executive, has bought the Levy Block Building at 118 N. Stevens downtown through his company, Gregory Inc., and plans to renovate the structure for use as

A group of 10 investors from Spokane and Seattle has bought the Layrite Products Co. property on Trent Avenue and plans to resume production at the defunct Spokane companys idle block plant, says Chris McDevitt, one of the investors.The group

Spokanes commercial TV stations expect to spend millions of dollars each over the next three years to comply with a federal mandate that they, along with all other such stations in the country, begin broadcasting digitally by May 2002. The local

Ambassadors International Inc., of Spokane, has completed a major public offering that has netted the company about $71 million, says Jeffrey Thomas, the companys chief financial officer.The big travel and events coordinator, which had $26.5 a