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Rite Aid resuscitates plan for new North Side outlet

Stand-alone unit to be built at Franklin Park Commons

October 9, 2014

Rite Aid Corp., the Camp Hill, Pa.-based pharmacy and retail store chain, has submitted a building permit application to construct a stand-alone store on the north end of the Franklin Park Commons shopping center, where it would move an existing outlet fr

Cd'A orthopedic practice to open second clinic here

Meridian doing $500,000 in improvements for tenant

October 9, 2014

Mike McLean

Meridian Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, is working on a nearly $500,000 tenant improvement project in the medical district on the lower South Hill, where a growing orthopedic practice currently based in Coeur d'Alene plans to open a second clinic

Court win bolsters Avista Foundation

$6.5 million endowment brings total to $10 million

October 9, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Avista Corp.'s recent contribution of $6.5 million to the Avista Foundation brings the total endowment to about $10 million, which is enabling the organization to perpetuate its mission of helping to sustain the community through its focus on education,

Continental Door Co. looks to expand regionally

Valley dealer-installer says sales have grown steadily

October 9, 2014

Katie Ross

Spokane Valley overhead door dealer and installer Continental Door Co. is anticipating another strong year of sales, with revenues projected to be up 20 percent compared with 2013, says founder, co-owner, and President Norm Morse.

Telect offspring Weckey launches app

Smart guestbook startup aims for lobby ubiquity

October 9, 2014

Katie Ross

Telect Inc., the Liberty Lake-based developer and manufacturer of communications networking equipment, is investing in and leasing office space to a new company here named Weckey Inc., which has developed a mobile tablet guestbook application for business

Valley Fire Department updates two of its stations

$1.4 million in renovations to be finished yet this year

October 9, 2014

Katie Ross

The Spokane Valley Fire Department is wrapping up $1.4 million worth of renovations to its University and Otis Orchards stations, says Larry Rider, deputy chief of support systems for the fire department.

Another mixed-use building planned at Kendall Yards

Three-story building would be similar to Highline Lofts

October 9, 2014

Mike McLean

North Gorge Commercial Partners LLC, an affiliate of Liberty Lake-based Greenstone Corp., plans to construct a three-story mixed-use building just east of the similarly sized Highline Lofts building in Kendall Yards.

Psychology practice buys building to handle growth

Office to ramp up to six providers, hire more staff

October 9, 2014

Mike McLean

Northwest Neurobehavioral Institute PS, a Spokane counseling and therapy practice that specializes in assessing and treating cognitive functions, has bought a 9,300-square-foot building at 1303 N. Division, north of downtown, where it plans to move next m

Coeur d'Alene builder look to restabilize

Contractors Northwest's revenues fluctuate in recession's wide wake

October 9, 2014

Mike McLean

Coeur d'Alene-based Contractors Northwest Inc. has been navigating choppy waters since the recession, says Dean Haagenson, the company's cofounder, chairman, and CEO. CNI has charted a respectable year in 2013, buoyed in part by the $14.6 million McE

Distressed properties on tour

Homebuyers can save by buying foreclosed houses

October 9, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Cindy Carrigan and her business partner, Doc Nicolson, both brokers with Keller Williams Realty Spokane Five Star Real Estate Group, have specialized in selling foreclosed homes here since 2001.