The Washington Small Business Development Center has leased 5,300 square feet of office space in the Partnership Building on the Spokane Conservation District's Quarry Campus, says Sheryl McGrath, Washington SBDC state director.

Spokane Valley-based Standard Plumbing Heating Control Corp., which does business as SPHControls, has been acquired by Automated Logic Contracting Services Inc., a building management company headquartered in Kennesaw, Georgia, according to an Automated

Most agricultural commodities produced in the Pacific Northwest are expected to generate some profits in the next 12 months, according to a quarterly Market Snapshot report by AgWest Farm Credit, a Spokane-based agricultural lending cooperative.