A draft environmental impact statement has been prepared for a big Liberty Lake-area development that was announced two years ago and includes plans for about 1,800 residences and lots for light industrial use.Called Liberty Lake Meadows, the 90

Ross Stores Inc., of Newark, Calif., plans to open a 30,000-square-foot Ross Dress for Less discount clothing store in the Spokane Valley Plaza, which is located on the east side of Sullivan Road between Broadway Avenue and Interstate 90.David a

Costco Companies Inc., the big, Issaquah, Wash.-based membership warehouse chain, is searching for a new home for its cramped, 16-year-old store on Third Avenue southeast of downtown Spokane, knowledgeable real estate sources here say.Costco who

Roger Crawford, principal stockholder of Thermoguard Equipment Inc., a Spokane manufacturer of equipment for the corrugated box industry, is negotiating the possible sale of the company to H Enterprises, a Minneapolis company that also serves that

The mystique of Morocco is enveloping shoppers at Joel Inc.s store this spring.Silken draperies hang from the ceiling; stacks of lush pillows, heaps of baskets, and colorful boxes repose on exotic carpets; and trunks evoke far-off Intricate to

Plans for a development north of Spokane called Blue Heron Estates have been changed, and a company called Blue Heron Estates LLC now is seeking county approval for a proposed tournament-quality golf course and an upscale, 95-lot housing the is in

A Spokane orthopedic surgeon has begun performing an emerging procedure that involves extracting healthy cells from a patients knee, growing 10 million to 15 million new ones in a lab, then implanting the replicated cells back into the patient to

City of Spokane officials have quietly been discussing the possibility of moving City Hall to Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co.s Summit development site north of the Spokane Riverto jump-start that project, and perhaps to trigger use of by

The Post Falls, Idaho, branch of Cabletron Systems Inc., a Rochester, N.H.-based maker of computer networking hardware and software, plans to move across the Washington-Idaho border to Liberty Lake next month, bringing with it more than 100 has a

Japan remains a place of opportunity for businesses in Spokane and Washington state, despite being entrenched in the worst recession in its history and having a lingering reputation for resisting imports, says Thomas Foley, U.S. ambassador to Japan