Spokane Airports is negotiating with FedEx Corp., of Memphis, Tenn., to build a 120,000-square-foot, cargo-sorting facility at Spokane International Airport Business Park, says Spokane Airports CEO John Morrison.The big shipping company wants to

Homestead Birkenstock plans to move its longtime store in the Flour Mill by the end of March to a larger space at the northwest corner of Main Avenue and Wall Street downtown, says Jim King, one of the owners of the small, Spokane-based retail its

Sandpoint-based retailer Coldwater Creek Inc. expects to open a dozen stores in its next fiscal year, which starts in March.The planned outlets will more than double the number of retail stores operated by the big mail-order and e-commerce which

Holy Family Hospital plans to spend $20 million to $25 million to expand both its busy emergency room and its radiology and imaging department, as well as to remodel areas used for outpatient care and other services. Holy Family has received the

Colfax, Wash.-based Bank of Whitman is seeking regulatory approval to build a branch office next year in the Pacific Northwest Technology Park being developed on the West Plains by Granite Investments LLC, of Spokane.The bank has applied to the

Spokane allergy-products maker Hollister-Stier Laboratories LLC has signed an agreement to supply allergenic extracts to Aero Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Pompano Beach, Fla., that is expected to boost production at the Spokane plant by 20 percent, of

The Washington Legislatures 2001 session already is shaping up to be a challenging one in the face of a tight state budget and a nearly equal split of power between Republican and Democratic lawmakers.Spokane business groups will be there in a

Cleanup of petroleum-contaminated soil and groundwater at the North Market Street Superfund site is expected to start next year, says Bill Fees, an environmental engineer with the Washington state Department of Ecologys toxics cleanup years of of

The owner of the Wenatchee, Wash., Kia auto dealership has bought the Kia dealership here from Hallmark Hyundai Kia, of Spokane, says Michael Mackey, general sales manager of Wenatchee Kia.Terms of the transaction werent disclosed.Wenatchee

A shift in the supply and demand for workers has forced staffing agencies here and elsewhere to alter the way they do business.Through the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, many agencies prospered mainly by supplying temporary or contract whom a