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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...

Housing solid, Fannie Mae director says

The nations strong housing market has been a Band-Aid for the rest of the U.S. economy despite shocks from the high-tech industrys implosion, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and the corporate and accounting scandals, says a Fannie Mae director...

Wet-lab space for young companies said lacking

A new building in the University of Idaho Research Park in Post Falls isnt even done yet, but nearly all of the laboratory space that will be in it is spoken for already.Also, all of the wet-lab space at the Spokane Intercollegiate Research a...

Bio-OriGyn’s lubricant to launch in December

Bio-OriGyn LLC, of Spokane, has signed two pacts through which it expects to bring to market its first consumer product for human infertility. One of the agreements is with Unicep Packaging Inc., of Sandpoint, which will mix and fill about of a...

UI inks new research park occupants

Several new tenants plan to move to the University of Idaho Research Park, in Post Falls, after a new building there is completed this week.Doug McQueen, the research parks director, says the new tenants include a young Moscow, Idaho, biotech...

Target opens district office, eyes locations

Target Corp., the big Minneapolis-based discount retailer, has opened a district office in Spokane and is contemplating adding additional Target stores within the newly created district.Linda Heinen, Targets district team leader here, says in...

Waste-to-energy plant turbine upgrade mulled

The city of Spokanes Public Works Committee is recommending a $2.4 million turbine upgrade at the waste-to-energy plant.The facilitys turbine needs to be replaced or rebuilt about every 10 years, says Roger Flint, the committees director....

Iron Bridge to develop first building at park

Iron Bridge LLC, of Spokane, expects to start work next month on the first building in its 18-acre Iron Bridge Campus, an office park planned along the Spokane River east of Hamilton Street.Kent Hull, Iron Bridges managing partner, says the a...

Buck may not move knife plant

Buck Knives Inc., which this spring said it was thinking about moving its headquarters and manufacturing plant to Post Falls, now has said it will stay put in Southern California for at least two more years, according to news reports.Two San a...

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