Melanie Dressel, president and CEO of Tacoma-based Columbia Banking System Inc., says visiting the Spokane area is like coming home - and she's had reason to come home a little more often than usual this month.Columbia State Bank, the wholly of

TJX Cos., a multinational retail corporation, has applied to the city of Spokane to remodel the largest vacant space at NorthTown Mall for a new Marshalls store. The company also has posted online job notices for managers at the planned store, a

An advisory board for a Spokane tax-increment financing district called the West Quadrant hopes to find ways to leverage the roughly $200,000 the district has collected so far and recommend initial revitalization projects in which the city could of

Apartment developer and contractor Inland Washington LLC, of Spokane Valley, has obtained building permits for a $12.8 million, 150-unit senior apartment complex it plans to develop in the Wandermere area, near Mead High School.The project site,

Lowe's Cos., the big North Carolina-based home-improvement retail chain, plans to apply as early as next week to demolish the longtime North Side Kmart and former Lyons Avenue Cinema buildings to make room for a larger Lowe's store there, the city