Idaho Trust Co., a Coeur dAlene-based investment-management company, has formed a nationally-chartered bank, called Wealthbank N.A., so that it can offer its estate-planning and trust services across the country, says company President Thomas new

KELLOGGThe biggest auto dealership in the Inland Northwest is getting bigger. Dave Smith Motors, both marveled at by admirers and despised by rivals for the high volume of sales it conducts from this old mining town, says it soon will begin in

Parrott Mechanical Inc. will move its headquarters and a service division to Spokane from Coeur dAlene this summer and consolidate its operations in a new, $10 million business park, says the companys general manager, Howard Rude. Parrott, a

Post Falls-based Netivation.com Inc. has acquired eight companies since its $25 million initial public offering last June, and is aggressively seeking more acquisitions, says Tony Paquin, its president and CEO.Meanwhile, the companys overall a

COEUR DALENE Ilene Moss suspects that theres a mischievous leprechaun loose in the land who steals Irish-wool knit hats.She sells such hats at her Coeur dAlene shop, All Things Irish; the funny thing is, she says, most of the people who

A Post Falls tax-increment financing district formed to help recruit the big Harpers Inc. office-furniture plant there in 1993 is expected to be dissolved at the end of next year, when it finishes repaying bonds sold to pay for infrastructure so be

COEUR DALENESpokane developer John Stone unveiled detailed plans last week for turning 73 acres of vacant land along Northwest Boulevard here into a $200 million mixed-use development.The project, called Riverstone, envisions 42 lots for of

The city of Coeur dAlene is in the process of hiring an architect to design a $1 million expansion and renovation of its City Hall. The project will add about 20 percent more space to the 20,800-square-foot building, which is located at 710 of

Harbor Resorts LLC, the Seattle company that bought the Schweitzer Mountain ski area last winter, plans to build 400 condominium units and some 45,000 square feet of commercial space in the ski resorts village over the next five to seven years. a

The owners of the Highlands Golf & Country Club, in Post Falls, are relocating the courses pro shop and expanding its clubhouse and have renumbered its tees in preparation for the 2000 golfing season, which likely will begin sometime in March. is