Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Inc., the big Spokane-based financial-services company, has reported net income of $3.9 million for its 2002 fiscal year ended Sept. 30, which marks a significant rebound after enduring two years of losses about a

Pawn 1 Inc., the Spokane-based pawn-shop chain that launched an aggressive expansion strategy seven years ago and grew to nine stores, now is scaling back its growth plans after experiencing cash-flow problems of its own and ending a lengthy with a

Two-year-old plans for a new office tower in downtown Spokane appear to be dead in the water following a decision by property owner K. Wendell Reugh to step back from the project, which at one time had an estimated cost of $50 million.I think

As a youth in Tacoma, Larry McNeese was so enamored with aviation that he would collect and sell pop bottles to scrape together the penny-a-pound it cost to take a plane ride at the citys municipal airport.These days, McNeesea seasoned and

Imagine a brick-paved, tree-lined pedestrian promenade stretching for a block between Holy Family Hospital and the Franklin Park Commons shopping center on Spokanes North Side. Envision also a pedestrian bridge, just west of there, that spans at

Kellen Green began playing on personal computers at about age 5, bought a used BMW 318i online before he was old enough to drive, and estimates he now spends at least several hours a day on the Internet.When not busy with homework or football,

Spokane real estate developers Dick Edwards and Pete Thompson are spearheading an effort to create a tax-increment financing district that would encompass about 2,000 acres of land on the West Plains.Edwards says he and Thompson, both of Inc.,

The Bellevue, Wash.-based company that owns Land Rover Spokane has bought a former Cadillac and Infiniti dealership site on the west side of Adams Street between Second and Third avenues and plans to move its sport-utility vehicle dealership there

Spokane natives John Keegan and Lynette Byrne say they have entered into a franchise agreement with Batteries Plus, a Wisconsin-based retail chain, and plan to open three Batteries Plus stores here over the next two years.The franchisees say of