Retail

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

Celeste Shaw: Business from the heart

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September 25, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Celeste Shaw spent much of her childhood on a farm near Wolf Point, a tiny town in northeastern Montana. From an early age, she says, she was torn between being out with the cowboys where the action was, and being inside with the women, whose job it was t

Method Juice CafÃ© squeezes out a niche

Downtown restaurant seeks out sustainable ingredients, supplies

September 11, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Tyler Lafferty and Nick Murto, arguably two of Spokane's busiest entrepreneurs, are intensely passionate about socially responsible business practices as well as sustainability and good health, a few reasons they opened Method Juice CafÃ© two years ago

Farm-to-table food vendors find growing demand

Options include online ordering, subscriptions

August 28, 2014

Judith Spitzer

The so-called farm-to-table food movement seems to have taken hold across the country as well as here in Spokane. Plentiful fresh local produce and other food can be purchased from a number of neighborhood farmers' markets, and served the same night. Bu

Lithia Motors said it had best quarter in its history

Oregon-based company owns four dealerships here

July 31, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Reflecting the recent strength of the auto industry nationally, Medford, Ore.-based Lithia Motors, Inc., which operates four dealerships in the greater Spokane area, says it had the highest adjusted net income in its history in the second quarter. It rep

New Target draws retail focus to South Hill

Regal Plaza to account for more than 300 jobs

July 31, 2014

Mike McLean

The recently opened and already busy Target retail store at the Regal Plaza shopping center reflects the demand for new retail development on the South Hill, says prominent Spokane real estate developer Dave Black, who also notes that it took more than a

Big R begins $4 million expansion of its Coeur d'Alene store

Enlarged outlet likely will add 15 to 20 employees

July 17, 2014

Mike McLean

Great Falls, Mont.-based Western lifestyle retailer Big R Stores has started work on a $4 million expansion of its Coeur d'Alene store. The expansion project will add 50,000 square feet of floor space to the store at 170 E. Kathleen, nearly tripling it

Targeting a bull's-eye niche

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July 17, 2014

Virginia Thomas

As customers walk in the front door of Sharp Shooting Indoor Range & Gun Shop Inc., CEO Robin Ball greets most by name. From the shooting range on the other side of the building comes the intermittent bang of pistol shots. At the glass counters where hu

Goodwill leases South Hill space for new thrift shop

Store in Lincoln Heights set to open in September

July 17, 2014

Mike McLean

Spokane-based Goodwill Industries of the Inland Northwest has leased 9,800 square feet of retail space on the South Hill, where it plans to open a new thrift store. The site, at 2929 E 27th, just north of the Lincoln Heights Shopping Center, had been the

Kizuri: Faring well with fair trade

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July 3, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Kim Harmson, an early childhood educator for most of her career, opened Kizuri, a fair trade retail store in downtown Spokane, with absolutely no retail experience. What she did have was a strong belief in community and the fair trade movement. Fair trad