What? Another call center coming to town?You can almost hear the collective groan coming from people who picture the creation of more low-paying, no-benefit jobs here and the prospect of their home phone ringing more frequently at though, a

Software Spectrum Inc., the Garland, Texas-based software seller and technical-service provider, says it expects to add more than 300 employees here this year, giving it a total work force of around 900.Alison Eldred, the companys manager says

MSC incorporated as Premera Blue Cross, one of Eastern Washingtons biggest health-plan providers, has implemented a 24 percent rate hike for its small-employer pool, through which it serves about 50,000 workers in Eastern Washington.Although a

Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories Inc. (PAML), the Spokane-based regional medical laboratory that performs large numbers of tests on bodily fluids, plans to move its Spokane operations next year from two locations in the Spokane Valley to a

Squeezed between a neon-illuminated bail bond office and a corner caf painted in vivid art-deco colors, rustic Crescent Machine Works Inc., at 821 N. Monroe, looks distinctly out of place.The only thing along the weather-beaten front of the to

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, has raised more than $293 million through a recent offering, called a securitization, that involved the sale of about 3,500 adjustable-rate and fixed-rate mortgage loans.The latest completed by

A limited partnership formed by Spokanes Wells & Co. and Avista Development Inc., also of Spokane, plans to renovate the former Rodeway Inn City Center into a high-tech office building that would be part of whats becoming known as the Terabyte

Clear Channel Communications Inc., a big San Antonio, Texas-based, diversified-media company that recently acquired six Spokane radio stations as part of a huge transaction, has bought a 16,500-square-foot building at 808 E. Sprague and plans to of

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, posted a loss applicable to common stockholders of about $12.4 million in its quarter ended June 30, up sharply from a $2.8 million loss in the year-earlier period, according to a recent filing in

Plans for a proposed new office tower at the southeast corner of Howard Street and Riverside Avenue in downtown Spokane have progressed with the naming of a Portland architectural firm to design the structure.The firm, Thompson Vaivoda & Inc., &