North Idaho

California company acquires Quest Integration

Company to keep N. Idaho location, expand offerings

September 10, 2020

Post Falls-based Quest Integration Inc. has been acquired by California-based Hawk Ridge Systems. Chantel Hirschel, marketing manager for Quest, which sells and provides support of manufacturing-design software and hardware for 3-D printing technology,

Engel & Volkers opens office in Coeur d'Alene

Brokerage plans to open Sandpoint agency in '21

August 27, 2020

Kevin Blocker

International real estate company Engel & VÃ¶lkers is making its presence known on Inland Northwest main streets. Twenty months after opening its Spokane office in a second-floor suite in River Park Square, at 808 W. Main, downtown, the company

Marina Cantina opens in Coeur d'Alene

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August 27, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Hagadone Marine Group and The Coeur d' Alene Resort have announced the opening of The Marina Cantina at The Boardwalk Marina, south of the Coeur d'Alene resort and next to the resort's boat rentals.

Fatbeam develops new cloud service

Cloudbeam is one step in effort to diversify company's product mix

August 27, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Fatbeam LLC, a Coeur d'Alene-based fiber optics company, has developed a new product that allows its customers to connect securely to cloud services providers. Fatbeam builds high-capacity fiber optic networks and leases connectivity through what

Longtime Cd'A marketing exec launches The Sip Shack

Company to cater to weddings, other special events

August 13, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Motivated by a pandemic-inspired idea, Coeur d'Alene entrepreneur Eden Richey Irgens is on the verge of launching her mobile bar and wine-serving concept, The Sip Shack.

Tamarack Aerospace establishes new center in UK

Manufacturer also adds hangar, office at Sandpoint

August 13, 2020

Natasha Nellis

Sandpoint, Idaho-based Tamarack Aerospace Group Inc. is stretching its wings with the establishment of a new installation center in the United Kingdom. The new center will be located within Jet Maintenance International's new 18,000-square-foot

Q&A with The Black Lens founder Sandra Williams

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August 13, 2020

Virginia Thomas

Five years ago, Sandra Williams launched The Black Lens newspaper as an experiment. Since then, the publication has become integral to Spokane's Black community and its allies.

Owsley set to launch reflections Aesthetic Spa in Post Falls

Restaurants & Retai

July 30, 2020

Kevin Blocker

A 30-year veteran of plastic surgery, Post Falls, Idaho-based Dr. Mark Owsley says he's opening an aesthetics spa to operate in conjunction with his practice.

Around Town

Real Estate Transactions and Other Business Moves in the Inland Northwest

July 30, 2020

Staff Report

Spokane-based Kancor LLC has purchased the 1.5-acre Bowdish RV Storage facility at 503 N. Bowdish Road as an investment. Rob Kannapien, of Coldwell Banker Commercial Schneidmiller Realty, and John Leland, of Re/Max Inland Empire, handled the transaction.

Inland Northwest executive pay inches upward

Modest increase follows fluctuations in previous two years

July 30, 2020

Linn Parish

Pre-pandemic executive pay increased by just 1% for executives at Inland Northwest-based publicly traded companies in 2019, according to a Journal of Business analysis.