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Rockwood Clinic to open new south Valley office

Location to house primary care and family medicine

March 27, 2014

Rockwood Clinic PS, of Spokane, has started renovating a 4,800-square-foot space in a strip mall in Spokane Valley and plans to open a primary care clinic there, Rockwood Chief Operating Officer Greg Repetti says. The total cost to renovate the space, lo

Bobby Brett: Face of the franchise

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March 27, 2014

Linn Parish

For 20-some years, Inland Northwest minor-league sports have been synonymous with Brett Sports, which owns and operates the Spokane Indians baseball club and the Spokane Chiefs hockey team. Bobby Brett and his three brothers bought the Indians when the c

Arevo shortens name, seeks to broaden applications for software

Startup drops half of name to reflect revised strategy

March 27, 2014

Mike McLean

Arevo Health, a cloud-based software startup here originally formed to help employers track health care benefits, has dropped the second half of its name to reflect the broader applications it foresees for its proprietary software. The company now is ope

Sonderen Packaging adds capacity at its East Spokane facility

Manufacturer seeks up to $7 million in bonds

March 27, 2014

Kim Crompton

Sonderen Packaging Inc., a longtime Spokane paperboard carton maker, is acquiring new equipment to increase its capabilities and is asking a state agency to issue up to $7 million in bonds to help finance the cost of the machinery. The agency, the Washin

Sandpoint home-and-airplane-hangar development is in holding pattern

SilverWing blames easement uncertainty for lack of sales

March 27, 2014

Mike McLean

A $26 million fly-in community at Sandpoint that the developer, SilverWing at Sandpoint LLC, characterized two years ago as ready for takeoff, hasn't lifted off the ground since then-and currently is sputtering in litigation. A lawsuit filed by Silv

Cip Paulsen plans marijuana production operation in former Costco building

Building owner joins forces with former state senator

March 27, 2014

Mike McLean

Clarence 'Cipâ€ Paulsen III, of Spokane, says he plans to convert the former Costco building at 800 E. Third, east of downtown Spokane, into a 131,500-square-foot marijuana growing and processing facility. Paulsen says he and business partner Brian Mu

Teeing up for the 2014 golf season in the Inland Northwest

Courses here eye weather, economic upturn

March 27, 2014

Katie Ross

As golf courses here open and prepare for the 2014 season, all eyes appear to be on the weather and the economy, Spokane city and county representatives and course professionals here say. Ross Kelley, chairman of the city of Spokane Park Board's golf

Virtual intelligence software company Next IT sets brisk growth clip

Company added clients, doubled revenue in '13

March 27, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Next IT Corp., Spokane's virtual intelligence assistant software company, has added eight new clients to its roster and expects to increase its revenues by 50 percent this year after doubling its annual income in 2013, says Mitch Lawrence, executive vic

Aerospace company plans West Plains facility

Manufacturing plant could add up to 150 jobs here

March 20, 2014

Katie Ross

Exotic Metals Forming Company LLC, a Kent, Wash.-based aerospace supplier, announced this morning at a press conference plans to build a 150,000-square-foot aerospace manufacturing facility on the West Plains. The facility could create as many as 150 j

Council must focus on business of city

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March 13, 2014

Staff Report

The Spokane City Council needs to spend less time on matters it doesn't influence directly and focus its efforts instead on leading the city. As their constituents can tell the council members, there's plenty to do to improve the city without wasting