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WAM plans retail strip at Wal-Mart

WAM Enterprises Inc., of Spokane, plans to build a retail strip center in the northeast corner of the parking lot at Wal-Mart Stores Inc.s new outlet in Post Falls. WAM bought a little more than an acre of Wal-Marts 20-acre Post Falls site,...

ISR to move to Liberty Lake

Clarkston, Wash.-based defense contractor Isothermal Systems Research Inc. has leased a building in Liberty Lake and plans to begin moving its corporate headquarters there next month. The company expects to employ 120 to 150 people in the facility...

Kmart here reportedly on closure list

A Kmart store in the Spokane Valley is one of two in Washington state that are on a leaked list of more than 200 Kmart stores reportedly slated for closure, the Puget Sound Business Journal, of Seattle, says.Kmart Corp., the struggling Troy, for...

Hecla boosts gold output by a third, cuts cash costs

Hecla Mining Co., of Coeur dAlene, boosted its gold production by a third last year and significantly lowered its cash costs of producing both gold and silver. The company, which has operating mines in the U.S., Mexico, and Venezuela, also it...

Rehabilitation concern plans to open clinic

Futures Unlimited Inc., of Columbus, Miss., plans to open Feb. 11 an outpatient rehabilitation clinic in Spokane that will specialize in providing therapy for patients with nervous-system dysfunctions. Ed Snapp, president and founder of the says...

Three new tenants to fill Bayou Brewing space

A Spokane events business has leased part of the shuttered Bayou Brewing Co. premises, and two other businesses, an Airway Heights microbrewery and a Spokane Thai restaurant, expect to sign leases there soon and move their respective operations the...

Intec eyes energy as a strategy

The Inland Northwest Technology Education Center, or Intec, says it is close to announcing a new strategy for helping the Spokane area bolster high-tech employment by focusing more attention on what it calls energy technologies.Randy Long, a...

Doctors sign contract for Post Falls hospital

A group of Coeur dAlene doctors has signed an agreement with a Chicago company to open a surgical hospital in Post Falls, a move that Kootenai Medical CenterCoeur dAlenes only hospitalestimates will cost it $6 million to $7 million a year...

Rahco sells equipment in China and Indonesia

Rahco International Inc., the longtime Spokane industrial manufacturer, says it has landed a contract to supply two more of its salt harvesters to a Chinese maker of potash for fertilizers. The contract is worth roughly $10 million. Meanwhile, ,...

Big academic building planned at Whitworth

Whitworth College says it hopes to start work this fall on a $6.5 million academic building on its North Spokane campus, its first new academic building since 1956.Whitworth has raised $3.2 million in donations so far for the new building, which...

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