Editor's Note: This column first appeared in the Flynn's Harp enewsletter on July 22. As of Aug. 8, the Mariners have a record 8-10 since the All-Star Game break but remain in the American League playoff race.

The former operators of Bigfoot Pub & Eatery are opening a restaurant and live music venue in the former Prospectors Bar & Grill space in the Wandermere area, on Spokane's North Side. John and Shadda Lee, who are husband and wife, plan to open Hammers

Magnuson Hotels, which the Journal last spotlighted in 2016, has fared much better over the past few years than most of the larger publicly traded hotel brands, claims the privately held company's CEO Tom Magnuson.

Exotic ornamental fish store The Marine Ravine is set to open this fall in Hayden. Owner Eric Cross says the store will open by early October at 2235 W. Dakota, in the Dakota Park Industrial Condos, just south of Coeur d'Alene

A pair of Spokane entrepreneurs has launched an employee cooperative business entity, which has received more than $711,000 in angel funding and loans.

A guitar store that closed two years ago is reopening in a space at 616 E. Third that will include artist studios and a metal fabrication shop. Taylor Roff, owner of The Senator Guitars, says the guitar shop originally opened on north Monroe Street in

Two commercial developments proposed by Spokane businessperson Sam Sidhu and first reported by the Journal in spring 2021 are on track to begin this building season, according to people familiar with each project.

Construction is planned or underway for six new restaurants in Spokane with expected openings starting this summer and continuing through mid-2023.