A hardware retailer here that opened an Ace Hardware store on the South Hill in 2002 plans to open its second Spokane-area store.The company, Jant Group II Inc., has leased a 17,500-square-foot former Rite Aid Corp. store building at the corner

A company headed by Spokane developer Rob Brewster Jr. has bought the former Twenty-Four Frames Cinema building in Cheney and plans to convert it into a restaurant and bar. The company, Selkirk Trading LLC, purchased the 93-year-old building is

YMCA of the Inland Northwest has agreed to buy a 15.9-acre parcel of land north of Spokane on which the organization hopes to develop a North Side facility for the metropolitan area.Rig Riggins, president and CEO of the Spokane nonprofit says

Companies headed by three prominent Spokane developersDick Vandervert, Rich Naccarato, and Craig Condronare preparing to move forward with major projects on 140 acres of vacant land on the West Plains. Buildings in the three projectsa $20

Fred Brown believes he has lassoed a big one.The calf roper-turned-software entrepreneur formed Next IT Corp. here last year and soon after acquired Spectre AI Inc., a then-2-year-old artificial-intelligence software developer here founded in a

Steve Terry points to a cleaning device propped behind the door of his office at Deaconess Medical Center.Its called a mega mop, and Terry contends it cleans faster and more thoroughly than a conventional cloth mop, which means Deaconess can

Spokane Teachers Credit Union has set its sights on a lofty milestone: reaching $1 billion in assets by 2007.Unlike some other credit unions here, however, Teachers will rely on what it has been doing, and not expanding into new markets, to its

Numerica Credit Union, of Spokane, has bought a location in the Tri-Cities to build a new branch and enter the market there, continuing a trend of geographic expansion by leading Spokane credit unions.Earlier this year, Numerica Credit Union a

A development company here thats proposing a new downtown-Spokane office building has redesigned and expanded the envisioned structure with hopes of attracting a coveted anchor tenant.The company, Riverside 89 LLC, now is looking to build a a

A company headed by Spokane developer Dick Vandervert has bought an old United Furniture Warehouse building on Spokanes North Side and is remodeling it with hopes of landing a new retail tenant for the property.The building is located at the