A proposal by Spokane City Councilman Steve Eugster to move City Hall temporarily to the vacant former Costco Wholesale Corp. store east of downtown has put a public spotlight on the cavernous warehouse structure.Commercial real estate agents to

Cold Stone Creamery Inc. is returning to Spokane, after an earlier brief debut here, and the Spokane couple in charge of developing Cold Stone franchisees in Washington and North Idaho say they foresee strong growth in this region for the national

Orthopaedic Specialty Clinic of Spokane PLLC plans to develop a building in the Northpointe Medical Park and move there from a nearby leased space by early next year, says Dr. David Scott, one of the clinics owners.Scott, an orthopedic says is

Zess Technologies Inc., which had hoped to turn a new type of heat exchanger into a $30-million-a-year business enterprise with help from the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute and Washington State University, has filed for 7

Spokane home builder Harley Douglass has bought 45 residential lots near the Deer Park Golf & Country Club in Deer Park, 15 miles north of Spokane, and has begun building two model homes on adjacent lots there.The lots that he has purchased are

Dissatisfied with the continuing sharp upward trend in health-insurance premiums paid by businesses and their workers, an employer alliance has formed here to pursue a multipronged, locally focused strategy aimed at stabilizing health-care costs on

For motorists zooming along U.S. 2 past Northpointe Plaza on Spokanes North Side, its difficult to see beyond the big retail centers acres of parking lots and sprawling conglomeration of interconnected stores.Hidden behind that sprawling

Imagine plunking some money into a jukebox and not being limited in your music choices to the relatively small number of compact discs or, God forbid, antique 45s stored in the machine.Instead, using a touch-screen monitor and software designed

A little over a year ago, Spokane-based Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. was in the midst of slashing its large work force by more than half as it exited the high-volume, low-margin mortgage-banking market and sought to redirect its resources

United Furniture Warehouse, a Canadian-based 155-store discount chain, is considering closing one or more of its three stores in the Spokane-Coeur dAlene area as part of a scaling back of its struggling U.S. operations, says company President are