A development company here has proposed constructing a small retail building at the busy Division Street-Second Avenue intersection that would include a Starbucks Corp. coffee shop.The company, Keeper LLC, has requested from the city of Spokane...
Full StoryThe Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce has formed a group charged with keeping Fairchild Air Force Base off a list of U.S. military bases to be closed about three years from now.About 25 businesspeople, civic leaders, and aids to Washington a...
Full StoryWith mortgage rates nearly a point higher than they were earlier this year and much of the refinancing demand satisfied, the white-hot home-loan market has cooled considerably, perhaps signaling an industry shakeout.Some of the decline in has a...
Full StorySANDPOINT, IdahoLitehouse Foods Inc. hopes to nearly double its sales volume in the next five years, to almost $180 million, by making its line of refrigerated salad dressings, dips, and sauces as popular on the East Coast as they are in the that...
Full StoryWhen Renee Balcom, the local facility manager for Getronics, ruptured an Achilles tendon a year ago, she found the key to healing her heel just a few steps away from her office.Amsterdam-based Getronics has a well-furnished, about exercise in...
Full StoryA series of computer viruses that wormed their way into corporate America last month has spurred some Spokane-area businesses and agencies to review their cyber safeguards.What theyre finding is of little comfort in many cases, professionals...
Full StoryThe Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institutes application for a $3 million U.S. Economic Development Administration grant to build a wet-lab facility here has been denied, at least for now.It is final that it wont be this...
Full StoryGonzaga Preparatory School is seeking to have the Washington state Housing Finance Commission issue $10 million in bonds to remodel part of the private Spokane high school and to refinance debt from past improvements.The commission plans to on...
Full StoryFlagstone Development Group Inc., a company here headed by Spokane home builder Jim Sullivan, is proposing two new planned-unit developments in the Spokane area with a combined value of roughly $13 million.On Spokanes South Hill, Flagstone a...
Full StoryA Spokane development group hopes to start work this fall on a $2.3 million condominium complex, to be called Bridge Pointe Condominiums, on a site overlooking High Bridge Park, in West Spokane.Steven A. Meek, a member of the development group,...
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