One day, just for fun, Denis Koch drove to one of his Tune Tech Inc. shops in a friends Porsche.A customer at the counter asked about the sleek machine after watching Koch pull up, and was relieved to learn Koch had borrowed it. The customer

A new Windermere Real Estate franchise has opened its offices just north of downtown Spokane.The franchise, Windermere Real Estate/City Group Inc., is located in about 2,000 square feet of office space on the second floor of the Rivers Edge at

Two affiliated Spokane hotel companies have sought protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.One of those companies, JG-DR LLC, owns and operates a 70-room Comfort Inn & Suites at 2730 N. Madson, at the Liberty Lake

Spokane-based Rosauers Supermarkets Inc. is planning a multimillion-dollar remodeling push that will involve updating all eight of its stores here during the next four years.Rosauers President and CEO Jeffry Philipps says the sweeping is part a

Spokane Valley-based Crown West Realty LLC has acquired an office complex in Phoenix for $2.1 million and says it hopes to invest at least an additional $50 million in real estate there this year.With the most recent acquisition, Crown West, &

Having grown quickly in the Spokane market, Cintas Corp., a Cincinnati-based uniform-rental company, has moved to larger quarters in Spokane Valley and is considering building its own facility here in the future.The big, publicly-traded company

A $2.7 million upgrade at Potlatch Corp.s St. Maries, Idaho, lumber and plywood mill is expected to boost productivity and enable the company to make a new product there.Potlatch spokesman Mike Sullivan says the Spokane company expects that a

Having cut its own path into the international marketplace during the past 12 years, Itron Inc. now plans to take its recent acquisitions along that route.The Spokane Valley-based maker of utility-data equipment and software expects that the to

Farmers & Merchants Bank, of Spokane, plans to build a bank branch, its 15th overall, in the Wandermere area north of Spokane. The bank has bought a retail pad at 516 E. Hastings, in the parking lot of Fred Meyers Wandermere store, and plans

The Spokane campus of Apollo College, having enjoyed enrollment surges in its medical-training programs during its first few years here, is moving to larger quarters.The Phoenix-based college has leased about 15,000 square feet of floor space a