Erin Nelson is one-part orchid placement consultant, one-part orchid plant doctor, and all-parts orchid lover. At her store, Small Hill Orchids, which she opened in February at 2207 N. Hamilton, a few blocks south of North Foothills Drive, is a

Kantor Diamond Co., of Cathedral City, Calif., plans to close a store that it has operated here for 17 years.The store occupies a roughly 1,200-square-foot space in the Logan Center, at 1601 N. Division, where it has been located for five It a

A large planned unit development in the Wandermere area, tentatively named Stone Horse Bluff, appears to be moving forward again after being in limbo for years.Spokane County has approved a road plan and the vacation of two current streets for

Spokane Transfer & Storage Co. is revisiting its roots to keep a stable base in a changing trucking industry, says Doug Ross, its president. Keeping revenue steady this year with the loss of three of the companys five largest national due to

Scarsella Bros. Inc., of Seattle, is the apparent low bidder, with a bid of $17.3 million, for a contract to construct a 1,330-foot-long at-grade tunnel to carry Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railways tracks under the north-south freeway near bid,

Latah Creek Plaza LLC, of Spokane, plans to develop a 20,000-square-foot medical office building just north of the Latah Creek Plaza shopping center in southeast Spokane, says Chris Bell, a real estate agent with NAI Black.Bell and NAIs Dave

The first leg of the north-south freeway to open for traffic likely will stir new commercial development, such as around the interchanges where it connects with busy arterials, but market demand for that land isnt materializing yet, commercial of

Spokane-based scientific-research equipment supplier MatriCal Inc. is on the verge of a potentially huge distribution contract for one of its smallest products and is preparing to move much of its operation out of the Sirti Building to a bigger is

Thieves have smashed and grabbed 13 ATMs here in the last several months, pitting the brute force of a car or truck against the perceived imperviousness of a bolted-down cash machine. The thieves either bash a vehicle right through a storefront or

Private universities and community colleges here have seen an uptick in enrollment this year, while enrollment in state universities Spokane programs has fallen. Overall enrollment at Gonzaga has increased 2.7 percent to 6,923 students this a