When businesses look to cut their energy bills, Quantum Lighting LLC helps them see the light.For years, the 29-year-old Spokane-based lighting consultant has worked with schools to replace or retrofit fluorescent lighting systems with designed

Changes in the retirement-plan administration sector have helped Randall & Hurley Inc., of Spokane, boost its revenues greatlyby 40 percent last yearand increase its customer base by 150 companies.The 9-year-old Spokane company, owned and &

Work could start soon on a planned $11 million, 180-unit second and final phase of development at the big Prairie Hills at Grayhawk apartment complex, on Spokanes North Side. The city of Spokane has issued permits for the construction of nine

The Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife is moving ahead with plans to develop a regional headquarters building at Mirabeau Point in Spokane Valley.Late last month, Washington Gov. Gary Locke approved the states capital budget for

In Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, a peddling entrepreneur might pull up and offer you a leisurely oceanfront tour via a three-wheeled passenger bike known as a pedicab. On the way to a ball game in Denver, another pedicab operator might offer

Purcell Systems Inc. is bullish on the telecommunications industry. That might sound like sarcasm or a sick joke to those who serve the telecom industry and have watched that sectors sales and staffing levels collapse. Yet, the 3-year-old

Spokane family-practice physician Dr. Bradley F. Bale, who has been an outspoken advocate of attacking heart disease preemptively, has started a heart-attack prevention clinic at his office here.Bale began seeing patients earlier this month

Spokane-area homes arent the only residential properties here that are selling like hotcakes these days. Commercial real estate agents who specialize in multifamily properties say apartment complexes are selling more briskly than they have in

After almost five years of planning, a $2.8 million indoor basketball complex in the Spokane Valley is moving forward. Kert Carlson, the projects originator and managing partner of the Carlson & Associates LLC investment group, says that site

Guess what segment of the Spokane-area home market is growing the fastest? The $100,000-to-$124,999 range? Thats the largest, but not the fastest growing. The $150,000-to-$199,999 range? Its growing briskly, but its not the fastest in