It's taken a while to get there, but Greater Spokane Incorporated and the Downtown Spokane Partnership appear to be in a good place, each organization now being led by a former Spokane County commissioner with deep-reaching local roots. Todd Mielke bec

The firm has leased 6,100 square feet of office space on the sixth floor of the 805 Broadway Building, in Vancouver, Wash., a short distance from Portland, and expects move into the space in May, says Shaun Cross, a Spokane partner with the firm. It will

I will have been at the Journal of Business for 27 years as of this spring, yet sometimes I still feel like a latecomer, having missed its first three years of existence. Those were the truly formative years, when founders Norm Thorpe and Scott Crytzer,

Scott Wetzel, owner of a Spokane-based real estate support services company that works with Windermere Real Estate agencies over a broad Mountain West region, says he and his wife, Tracie, have moved into the real estate front lines by buying two Winderme

The HUB Sports Center, the 66,000-square-foot multipurpose facility at 19619 E. Cataldo in Liberty Lake, has gotten a sizable financial boost from an anonymous donor. Executive Director Phil Champlin says the donor has contributed a building and land val

Bank and credit union executives here say they anticipate healthy growth in loans and deposits in the coming year, although perhaps slightly softer gains than they've seen this year as historically low interest rates that have lingered for years since t

Health care executives here anticipate positive changes and decent, if subdued, growth in their industry in the coming year, despite a still-unsettled landscape in the wake of the federal Affordable Care Act that is sparking new alliances and fostering gr