K&N Electric Motors Inc., a 56-year-old Spokane motor distributor and industrial-equipment service shop, has bought the assets of the former Spokane operation of Cleveland-based Grand Eagle Inc. and is moving into that companys facility.Grand

Work is scheduled to start this week on two office-and-warehouse buildings, worth a combined about $5.3 million, in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, in the Spokane Valley.Crown West Realty LLC, the 600-acre parks Spokane-based owner and

Sundance Plaza LLC, of Spokane, has inked Albertsons Inc. as the supermarket anchor for the planned Sundance Plaza Shopping Center on Spokanes North Side, and after a years delay, is moving forward with the projects $5.2 million first site

Earlier this year, WestCoast Hospitality Corp. CEO Donald Barbieri described the conditions facing the travel business as perhaps the most difficult economic environment in the recent history of the hospitality industry.Following the attacks

ICT Group Inc., a suburban Philadelphia-based call-center operator, is expanding its Spokane Valley call center, which is located at the University City Shopping Center.Jackie Amendolari, ICTs Philadelphia-based spokeswoman, declines to say or

Look at Itron Inc. and youll see a maker of automated meter-reading systems for utilities worldwide that in the last two years has boosted its sales, profits, and work force at a time when many other high-technology companies have company CEO at

Energy Flow Management Inc., a young Spokane-based company that greatly increased its presence here in January when it acquired longtime electrical contractor Colvico Inc., plans this spring to begin using farm manure to generate Energy Flow is to

Peter and Candy LaPlante, of Spokane, have bought the building that had housed the now-defunct Bethany Home elder-care facility in the Spokane Valley, and plan to reopen a new elder-care operation there called Bethany Place.The buildings the a

Inland Power & Light Co., the Spokane-based electric cooperative, posted a decline in net margins in 2001 compared with the year earlier, but the number of customers it serves and the amount of electricity it sold both grew.Inland Power also to

Empire Ford Inc., of Spokane, has begun a $1.1 million remodeling project at its dealership building in downtown Spokane, and says it will stay downtown rather than move to the West Plains as it once considered doing.John Robideaux, a marketing