Mailstream USA Inc. was a direct-mail marketing company that dabbled in the fulfillment business until one day four years ago when a Spokane man let his fingers do the walking. At that time, says company CEO Allan McEachern, Mailstream was the

The former American Sign & Indicator Corp. building complex in Spokane Valley attracted a winning bid of $2.3 million at a public auction earlier this month, says Jim MacDonnell, executive managing director of Sheldon Good & Co., the Chicago-based

Since home sales started to surge in Spokane and Kootenai counties a few years ago, real estate professionals have pointed to historically low mortgage rates as one of the key reasons for the increased activity. With mortgage rates rising over

Boise businessman Chadd Harbaugh, founder and president of a law-enforcement and military training company there, has bought a 550-acre dude ranch near Harrison, Idaho, and plans to move the companys training facility there. The ranch, which

As Media Joe founder and CEO Joe Melton tells it, there was a time when information-technology professionals simply had to know computers and computer networks.Then came voice-over-Internet-protocol phone networks, and IT guys had to become has

Charitably-inclined taxpayers stand to benefit from a hurricane-relief bill passed late this summer, but the federal government is in less of a giving mood these days when it comes to other types of tax relief than it has been the past few years. &

For most of Donald Schellings career, the only thing he knew about dry cleaning was that he used such shops to clean suits he wore to his job as a sales manager at Washington Trust Bank.After his position with the bank was eliminated in the a

Levernier Construction Inc., of Spokane, has started work on a $10.3 million gymnasium and fitness center at Ferris High School, on Spokanes South Hill, after being awarded the slightly scaled-back project by Spokane Public Schools late last the

Spokane-area entrepreneur Bernard Daines is considering whether to expand substantially the size of a planned addition to the Liberty Lake Internet Portal building, in Liberty Lake. In June, Daines disclosed plans to build a two-story, addition

A $34.6 million nursing college building planned at the Riverpoint Higher Education Park is back on the drawing boards for redesign after construction cost estimates came in $4 million over budget.Consequently, the construction schedule for the