North Idaho

West Star Industries eyes $5.6 million facility in Hayden

Company makes stainless steel restaurant equipment

October 12, 2017

West Star Industries, a Hayden-based maker of commercial stainless steel food-service products and equipment, plans to build a $5.6 million manufacturing plant in Hayden, a building permit application on file with the North Idaho city shows. Michelle Foc

Retirement complexes report high occupancy

Couple of operators report being near, at full capacity

September 28, 2017

Keith Erickson

At 82, Maxine Shorter continues to embrace her independence. The former Florida resident, now living at Bestland Senior Living in Coeur d'Alene, says the community is a perfect fit. Shorter is quick to point out that retirement living is not what most

Inland Northwest paralegal programs grow

Trend runs counter to law school enrollments in recent years

September 28, 2017

Keith Erickson

Laura Tenneson needed a career change. Her job as a restaurant server increasingly was becoming more challenging as her arthritis began to flare up. Tenneson, 36, sought a new calling-something that would be easier on her joints, tap her intellectual

Commercial activity picks up in Colville, Oldtown

Grocery Outlet, Dollar Tree among retailers moving in

September 28, 2017

Mike McLean

Marshall Clark, president and broker at Clark Pacific Real Estate Co., of Spokane, says he's seen a recent surge in commercial real estate activity in the northeastern Washington town of Colville and North Idaho border town of Oldtown. Recent transacti

Super 1 supermarket in Cd'A launches $2.5 million makeover

Meridian awarded contract for major remodel project

September 28, 2017

Mike McLean

Regional supermarket chain Super 1 Foods is starting a $2.5 million interior and exterior remodel project at its Coeur d'Alene store, says Mark D'Agostino, president of Spokane-based Meridian Construction, the contractor on the project. The 67,200-sq

Dave Smith Motors buys Infiniti dealership here

Acquisition completed earlier in September

September 28, 2017

Dave Smith Motors, the large Kellogg, Idaho-based automotive dealership, says it has acquired the Infiniti dealership of Wendle Ford Motors Inc. on Spokane's North Side. 'It's another brand that we can sell nationally,â€ says Chris Rice, the Spoka

NanaMacs ranks among fastest growing retailers in U.S.

Post Falls-based company makes its debut on Inc. list

September 28, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

Post Falls-based women's clothing and accessories retailer NanaMacs Boutique has ranked high on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private U.S. companies in 2017. New York-based Inc. magazine, which compiles the annual list, measured company's

Nonprofits to collaborate on patient lodging project in Cd'A

Hospitality center to be built at Kootenai Health

September 14, 2017

Mike McLean

Community Cancer Fund, Kootenai Health, and Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Inland Northwest are collaborating to develop and operate lodging for adult and pediatric patients receiving medical treatment at Kootenai Health, says Jerid Keefer, Commun

Bighorn Industrial Park changes hands in Post Falls

Real estate investors buy entire subdivision

September 14, 2017

Mike McLean

Real estate development and investment company Beckenhauer Properties LLC has bought the 200-acre Bighorn Industrial Park, in west Post Falls, says Craig Hunter, a commercial real estate broker involved in the transaction. Beckenhauer Properties is owned

Sandpoint Center office building changes hands

Columbia Bank leases back main-floor space

September 14, 2017

Mike McLean

Sandpoint Equities LLC, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment concern, has bought the Sandpoint Center Building in downtown Sandpoint, says Ned Brandenberger, the building's manager and leasing agent, in a press release about the transaction. Taco