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PrimeSource Credit Union to open Spokane Valley branch

Organization celebrates 80th anniversary soon

March 12, 2015

Spokane-based PrimeSource Credit Union is planning to open its third branch this summer in an 11,400-square-foot building at 9208 E. Sprague in Spokane Valley, says CEO Margaret Burkholz. PrimeSource purchased the building, which sits at the corner of E

Rainmaker Creative: Making it rain customers

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March 12, 2015

Judith Spitzer

Billie and Kevin Gaura, the two principals of Rainmaker Creative, a Spokane-based full-service advertising agency says the name refers to making it rain customers for their clients. 'We had the name and the business plan done two years before we opene

Northwest Farm Credit reports drop in earnings last year

Co-op's total loans rose by 6.5 percent, however

March 12, 2015

Katie Ross

Northwest Farm Credit Services, the Spokane-based agricultural lending cooperative, has posted earnings of $228.1 million for 2014, a decline of just under 4 percent from $236.9 million in 2013. Phil DiPofi, the cooperative's CEO, says in a press rele

Greenstone Corp. affiliate to develop 500-lot subdivision

Work on first units could gear up this spring

March 12, 2015

Mike McLean

Rivercrossing LLC, an affiliate of Liberty Lake-based real estate development company Greenstone Corp., is planning a subdivision in Liberty Lake's River District that would include about 500 residential units and future commercial development. The Tru

WSU students to roll out Go KEFI travel website

Startup Weekend champ will test idea on campus

March 12, 2015

Judith Spitzer

Three Washington State University students who have developed Go KEFI, an affordable adventure travel website, say they are poised to test the platform on the Pullman campus. Amanda Scott, a WSU senior who generated the idea for the website, pitched the

Hayden Homes agrees to buy competitor's 1,200 lots

Copper Basin shifts focus to its multifamily projects

March 12, 2015

Mike McLean

Prominent homebuilder and developer Copper Basin Construction Inc., of Hayden, has agreed to sell 1,200 residential lots in the Inland Northwest to Redmond, Ore.-based Hayden Homes LLC, the companies jointly announced last week. Hayden Homes will acquire

Some 'dogs stay

Former Gonzaga basketball players return to work, live in Spokane area

March 12, 2015

Mike McLean

Being on a successful college athletic program such as Gonzaga University men's basketball team enables players to visit many of the major cities in the U.S. For some players, their athletic success at the college level has led to professional basketba

PAML achieves record volume

Lab's requisitions grew 8.6 percent last year

March 12, 2015

Katie Ross

Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories LLC, the Spokane-based national reference laboratory, says it has recorded its highest number of annual tests to date, with requisition volume year-over-year total growth of 8.6 percent in 2014. Patty Sipes, seni

Keystone Automotive plans big West Plains distribution facility

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March 11, 2015

Staff Report

Keystone Automotive Operations Inc., an Exeter, Pa.-based wholesale distributor and marketer of aftermarket automotive parts and accessories, is building a 250,000-square-foot warehouse distribution building on the West Plains and plans to begin operation

Urban Outfitters plans store in downtown Spokane

Big retailer expects to open first outlet here this fall

March 6, 2015

Katie Ross

River Park Square CEO Bryn West said this afternoon that Philadelphia-based national retailer Urban Outfitters plans to open a store next fall in the adjoining Saad Building, at 211 N. Wall, at the east end of the mall complex, after a $2 million demoliti