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Spokane-area home sales on pace to top 2005's record

Transactions through MLS rose 20 percent in February

March 15, 2018

Spokane-area single-family home purchases jumped 20 percent in February over the same month last year, a report released this week by the Spokane Association of Realtors shows. Single-family homes on less than an acre including condominiums-sold throu

Northwest Summers: On the cutting edge

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March 15, 2018

Keith Erickson

When a windstorm ripped through the region in fall of 2015, it left in its wake tons of yard waste from battered trees-debris destined for the dump or a burn pile. But Dallas and Kate Summers, owners of Northwest Summers, a custom art business on Spoka

Millwood sets stage to attract business

City plans projects intended to improve safety, walkability

March 15, 2018

LeAnn Bjerken

The little city of Millwood is in the midst of a transformation, some say, with several projects in the works that are aimed at improving infrastructure and attracting new businesses. Surrounded by the city of Spokane Valley on three sides, Millwood cove

Blockchain technology makes its way into the Inland Northwest

Mechanism supporting cryptocurrency said to be alluring to some

March 15, 2018

Samantha Peone

Christopher Armitage, co-founder and co-owner of West Plains-based cleaning business Armitage Cleaning LLC, predicts that 10 years from now blockchain technology will be so omnipresent in society that people will use it daily without even appreciating how

Tariffs import uncertainties for some Spokane-area manufacturers

Some critics wary measure could hinder U.S. exports

March 15, 2018

Kevin Blocker

Although images show President Donald Trump surrounded by smiling aluminum and steel workers after signing two proclamations imposing tariffs on imports of aluminum and steel, some Spokane-area buyers and manufacturers of steel and aluminum say they aren

Cobra BEC to merge with Canadian contractor

Dix brothers to maintain their leadership roles here

March 15, 2018

Samantha Peone

Spokane-based Cobra BEC Inc. and Mississauga, Ontario-based Flynn Group of Cos. plan to merge and operate under the Flynn Group name, says Travis Dix, chief operations officer of Cobra. The two building-envelope contracting companies expect to finalize

LabCorp to lay off nearly 200 employees here

Downsizing will occur over next several months

March 8, 2018

LabCorp, the Burlington, N.C.-based S&P 500 company that acquired Spokane-based Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories last year, confirmed Thursday it will lay off close to 200 employees here in the coming months. "We've tried to be upfront as much

On The JoB podcast: Spokane's proposed Sportsplex

Journal of Business reporter Kevin Blocker talks about the proposed Sportsplex complex envisioned on Spokane's North Bank.

March 1, 2018

Staff Report

Journal of Business reporter Kevin Blocker talks about the proposed Sportsplex complex envisioned on Spokane's North Bank.

On The JoB podcast: Spokane-area school projects

Journal of Business reporter Samantha Peone discusses school construction projects that will be funded by recently successful bond elections.

March 1, 2018

Staff Report

Journal of Business reporter Samantha Peone discusses school construction projects that will be funded by recently successful bond elections.

Around Town

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March 1, 2018

Staff Report

Family Auto Care LLC, a new Spokane full-service automobile repair and maintenance business, has leased 1,500 square feet of warehouse space in the Decatur Storage complex, at 3707 E. Decatur, from Canter Commercial Properties LLC. At the same complex, Sp