Five Mile Prairie is like a rural island in an urban sea.Though just a short drive from Spokanes heavily commercial North Division Y, the prairielocated atop a large bluff that rises several hundred feet above surrounding city dotted it

Bank of America is taking bold steps to strengthen its position as a leading financial institution, as shown by its recent $47 billion purchase of Boston, Mass.-based FleetBoston Financial Corp.That aggressive national growth strategy, though,

Greg Brown bought his first Corvette when he was 24, and over the quarter-century since then has owned four others. He and his wife each own one now. The longtime member of the Spokane Corvette Club rattles off trivia about the venerable sports car

Nitze-Stagen & Co., the Seattle-based real estate investment and development concern, has agreed to co-develop the 76-acre Summit site west of downtown Spokane with Spokane-based Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., which owns the property.

Developers have spent millions of dollars to add new inventory to Spokanes downtown office market over the last several years, but much of that space still sits empty, due to the weak economy. Furthermore, theres more space about to come on

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians, continuing to add to its property holdings on the West Plains, has bought for future development another 111 acres near its 3-year-old Northern Quest Casino.The parcel extends south from the casino, located at 100

Delivery Express Inc., a growing Seattle-based courier service, plans to establish a branch in Spokane next year, says Dave Hamilton, its founder and CEO.The 6-year-old business, which the Puget Sound Business Journal recently listed among the

Spokane-area businesses, battered by several straight years of mostly double-digit percentage increases in group health-plan premiums, will have to find ways to cope with more of the same next year. Benefits consultants and representatives of a

Many entrepreneurs develop plans for startup businesses through a painstaking process that blends their accumulated knowledge of an industry with research focused on profit potential.For Robert Calvert, founder and publisher of Spokane-based an

Its not easy for a used-car business to stand out from competitors along East Sprague Avenue, where in some areas vehicle-crammed lots seem to stretch on indefinitely like a sea of metal.Shawn LeFavour, though, has used his knowledge and love