Spokane Journal of Business

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Analyst cuts estimate of Avista’s net

D.A. Davidson & Co., a Great Falls, Mont.-based stock brokerage, has lowered its estimate for Avista Corp.s earnings for 2002, based on a recent court judgment against the Spokane energy company.In a report on Avista released last week, D.A....

Cantu buys Valley land, eyes new office building

Cantu Investments LLC, of Spokane, has bought just over an acre of vacant land along Mullan Road in the Spokane Valley and is considering developing of a new office building there.Commercial real estate broker Dan Cantu, who is part-owner of on...

Interface to reduce its training operations here

Interface Computer School plans to close its Spokane Valley training center, one of three it operates here, due to a downturn in enrollment.Dave Wilson, who owns the Spokane-based business with his wife, Linda, says the school plans to vacate a...

Furniture outlets here to shut down

United Furniture Warehouse, a Canadian-based 155-store discount chain, has decided to close its two Spokane stores and one in Moses Lake as part of a big consolidation of its struggling U.S. operations, company President John Volken says.The at...

Wine distributor here to move, double space

Vehrs Inc., a Spokane wholesale wine distributor, has leased 50,000 square feet of office and warehouse space in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park and plans to move its operations there from smaller quarters in the Valley. Vehrs President...

City University stops accepting students here

The Spokane campus of City University, an accredited four-year college for working adults, has scaled back its Spokane presence greatly and is no longer accepting new students here.Ten students, who currently are enrolled in two City University...

Logan Industries quickly emerges from Chapter 11

Logan Industries Inc., the Spokane contract electronics manufacturer that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last spring, has emerged from that reorganization filing after resolving a dispute with a key lender.U.S. Bankruptcy Court John...

Ecology proposes decree for Hamilton cleanup job

A $1 million cleanup plan is being proposed for a contaminated site along the Spokane River near downtown where a gas plant and a tar company once operated.The Washington state Department of Ecology is proposing to enter into a consent decree A...

Ruby Street Ruins stops traffic

You know that shop at the corner of Ruby and Mission? The one with antique dressers on the sidewalk, along with the Statue of Liberty, a big green alligator, and 13-foot tall Grecian urns? It gets a lot of attention from people stopped at the a...

Driving schools eye ‘tidal wave’

Commercial driver-education schools here are expecting a wave of new business this fall as local school districts hike the prices they charge for drivers training or drop those programs altogether.To handle the anticipated demand, one local a...

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