Articles by Karina Elias

Post merger, AgWest Farm Credit embraces change

Cooperative on mission to improve customers'efficiency, sustainability
February 2, 2023
Karina Elias
AgWest Farm Credit, the newly formed agricultural lending association, will focus its resources to enhancing its agricultural customer-owners' access to technology, which will enable them to modernize their growing methods and deliver efficient and
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Outdoor storage yard planned on West Plains

Company seeks conditional-use permit for project
January 19, 2023
Karina Elias
Pacific Land Holdings LLC, of Everett, Washington, plans this spring to build an outdoor recreational vehicle and automobile storage yard, to be located at 12032 W. 21st, in Airway Heights. Environmental documents show commercial buildings totaling 90
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Northwest Farm Credit, California co-op complete merger

AgWest to be based here, serve seven-state region
January 19, 2023
Karina Elias
Spokane-based Northwest Farm Credit Services and Rocklin, California-based Farm Credit West have completed their mergers and created a new financial cooperative association, AgWest Farm Credit. The merger, finalized Jan. 1, completes a year-long
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SRM Development expands scope, staff, revenue

Spokane-based company focuses on multifamily, senior-living projects in large Western metros
January 19, 2023
Karina Elias
SRM Development LLC, a Spokane-based development and construction company that typically takes on projects far from home, has been steadily growing over the past few years. The 24-year-old company added SRM Interiors LLC in 2017, and an affordable
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Refocusing The Black Lens

Spokesman-Review editor teams with Williams family with goal to relaunch paper
January 19, 2023
Karina Elias
Before Sandy Williams' tragic death in a plane crash last September, the social activist, entrepreneur, filmmaker, and executive director of the Carl Maxey Center planned to relaunch The Black Lens newspaper this February.
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HUB Sports Center envisions $24 million expansion

Plans call for youth sports fields, courts, other facilities at Liberty Lake complex
January 19, 2023
Karina Elias
Liberty Lake-based HUB Sports Center is planning a $24 million facilities expansion, says Phil Champlin, executive director of the nonprofit sports venue. Champlin says plans for development are still in the early phases, and details will be
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Retail sales likely to decelerate after strong showing

Inflation, low average savings impact spending
December 15, 2022
Karina Elias
Retail sales in Spokane are expected to slow in 2023 after strong showings the last couple of years which were buoyed by pandemic relief funds, says Patrick Jones, executive director of the Institute for Public Policy and Economic Analysis at Eastern
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Inland Northwest health care systems look to stabilize

Spokane providers are operating with financial losses, increased costs
December 15, 2022
Karina Elias
Moving into 2023, major health care systems in Spokane are projecting continued financial losses while working to stabilize margins after struggling through two years of COVID-19 surges, ongoing shortages of medical personnel, and rising costs.
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