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Spokane-area building permit figures rise after four-year decline

Increased activity in county offsets drops in Spokane, Spokane Valley

January 19, 2012

The total value of building permits issued countywide in 2011 notched its first tick upward following four years of declining totals, records for Spokane County and the cities of Spokane and Spokane Valley show.The permit valuations for last in

Investors look to Spokane, Coeur d'Alene apartment markets to boost returns

Investors said turning to multifamily housing to boost returns

January 19, 2012

Mike McLean

More total apartment units are under construction and coming on line here than there have been in several years, some Inland Northwest apartment market observers here say.Some investors and developers are betting the number of renters will to of

Small Business Watch

January 19, 2012

Chocolate Myracles moves to larger spaceChocolate Myracles' Chocolate Shop & Chocolate Factory has moved to a 1,000-square-foot leased space at 11616 E. Montgomery, in Spokane Valley.The European-style confections company, which has been a

Don't get rankled over rankings

January 19, 2012

Editor's Notebook

Spokane is No. 1, right? Well, actually, it's ninth. Except for when it's 19th. Or when it's 51st. Or 77th. Then there was the day recently when Spokane was tied for worst. That was the day Forbes magazine published its ranking of cities by for

Local online religious publication launches

January 19, 2012

Religion News LLC, a Spokane-based nonprofit organization affiliated with Religion News Service, in Washington, D.C., has launched a local online publication called Religion News Spokane. The publication covers religion news in the Spokane area

Command Center buys assets of disaster staffing company

Post Falls company makes disaster-staffing company a wholly-owned subsidiary

January 19, 2012

Treva Lind

Command Center Inc., a Post Falls-based temporary staffing company with more than 50 U.S. locations, has acquired the assets of a former competitor, DR Services of Louisiana LLC, which provides job placements for disaster relief and recovery. DR

Grocery Boys expansion planned in East Spokane

Owner also wants to build car wash, more parking south of store on Crestline

January 19, 2012

Treva Lind

Thabel Inc., which owns the Grocery Boys store in East Spokane, plans to build an addition onto the grocery store building, and is eyeing construction of a car wash nearby.Owner Jasbir Thabel estimates the total cost of the store addition and be

Foundation here lands $1 million endowment, establishes new fund

January 19, 2012

The Spokane-based Inland Northwest Community Foundation says a donor's gift of more than $1 million has enabled it to launch a new endowment fund that will benefit three Spokane nonprofit organizations in perpetuity.Annual distributions from the

DeVries Moving owners buy East Spokane buildings

January 19, 2012

Chey Scott

Mike and Becky DeVries, owners of Spokane-based DeVries Moving Packing Storage, recently bought two East Spokane warehouses, and they plan to move the company's operations there by the end of this month.The adjacent buildings are located at 112

Hart Capital's INW composite rises in fourth quarter

Market values increased during last quarter for 11 of 15 public companies

January 19, 2012

Treva Lind

Hart Capital Management Inc.'s Inland Northwest Composite, which gauges the total market value of 15 publicly traded companies in the region, increased 9 percent last quarter compared with the previous quarter. Still, the composite finished well