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Hyundai dealership in downtown Spokane changes hands

Most employees retained from former LHM location

June 7, 2018

A pair of Canadian automotive industry veterans has acquired the former Larry H. Miller Hyundai Spokane dealership in Spokane Valley and renamed it Spokane Hyundai. Greg Churchill, president, and Craig Fruin, general manager of Spokane Hyundai, at 8801

SRM Development secures $20 million in private capital

Spokane developer planning senior projects in California

June 7, 2018

Virginia Thomas

SRM Development LLC, a Spokane-based development company, has secured $20 million in capital through a private placement with investors. The developer, which focuses on senior housing, multifamily housing, and commercial buildings, will use SRM Senior Ho

Smart housing project planned in South Perry District

Work on $2 million Blockhouse project could start in early fall

June 7, 2018

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Six businesspeople from a variety of industries are coming together to build a $2 million 'smartâ€ housing development, called Blockhouse, in the South Perry District. Andy Barrett, one of the partners in the Blockhouse collaboration, says the group e

Volunteers of America plans $12 million Hope House in downtown Spokane

Low-income apartments, homeless women's shelter eyed at Linnie's Thai site

June 7, 2018

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Volunteers of America Eastern Washington & Northern Idaho plans to construct a 60-unit low-income apartment building with a shelter for homeless women downtown at 1301 W. Third, the current site of Linnie's Thai Cuisine restaurant, says Fawn Schott, VOA

Permits secured for Gold Reserve project

Site work to clear way for big Venezuelan mine

May 24, 2018

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Gold Reserve Inc., a mining company incorporated in Canada with executive offices in downtown Spokane, has received the permit to begin construction activities at a gold, copper, and silver mining project in southeast Venezuela in conjunction with the Ven

Place LA is off to strong start in blooming economy

Young firm completed 63 projects in 2017, aims for more contracts this year

May 24, 2018

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After more than two decades working in landscape architecture, Joshua Tripp started Place Landscape Architecture LLC here on April Fool's Day in 2016 with just $100 in a business account. Since then, says Tripp, the landscape architecture firm has flour

Northwest Bedding to be shuttered

Company has two stores, factory, about 30 employees

May 24, 2018

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Longtime Spokane-area mattress maker and retailer Northwest Bedding Co. will shut down operations this summer, says controller Lee Kvalheim, citing a lack of a succession plan and an absence of interested buyers in the decision to close the company.

MacKay Manufacturing reports growth in sales

Manufacturer provides internal education, hopes to attract students to field

May 24, 2018

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A decade after the Great Recession, MacKay Manufacturing Inc. owner and Vice President Katie MacKay says business is good. From 2014 to 2016, the computer numerical control precision machining manufacturer had stagnant sales of around $22 million ann

Avista plans $165M meter upgrade

Using Itron technology, about 450,000 devices to be replaced in phases

May 21, 2018

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Spokane-based Avista Utilities is partnering with Liberty Lake-based meter technology manufacturer Itron Inc. to install smart meters throughout Avista's Washington service territory in a $165 million project scheduled to begin next fall, the utility comp

Anderson Peretti CPA firm acquires Spokane-based practice

Valley-based company now has four branch offices

January 18, 2018

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Spokane Valley-based accounting firm Anderson Peretti & Co. CPAs PS has acquired Blodgett & Co. CPAs. Erica Young, vice president at Anderson Peretti, says all six employees with Blodgett & Co. will remain with the firm, including Dave Blodgett, who foun