A new compensation survey by Associated Industries of the Inland Northwest has found that employers here offered the lowest bump in starting pay for entry-level workers this year than at any time in the surveys 14-year history.Only 28 percent...
Full StoryWashington Trust Bank plans to open a new, full-service branch early next year in a remodeled former Walgreens pharmacy building at 3810 N. Maple. The Spokane-based bank has purchased the Walgreens site for an undisclosed amount and, assuming &...
Full StoryMerrill Gardens LLC, a Seattle-based retirement-center owner and operator, has agreed to buy the Academy Retirement Community here.The company is buying the 99-unit North Side retirement center from The Academy LP, a partnership headed up by is...
Full StorySpokane real estate developers Dick Edwards and Pete Thompson are spearheading an effort to create a tax-increment financing district that would encompass about 2,000 acres of land on the West Plains.Edwards says he and Thompson, both of Inc.,...
Full StoryAlready among the fastest-growing companies in Washington state, the Spokane-based security company Argus Services Inc. is planning an aggressive expansion into the southwestern U.S. during the next year.Separately, Argus is negotiating to Jim...
Full StoryRiverview Retirement Community, of Spokane, is studying whether to develop a large retirement complex in the Liberty Lake area.Riverview, which has operated a senior-living development in Spokane for 43 years, has hired Santa Monica, Services a...
Full StoryLast year, tax-law changes provided individual income-tax relief. This year, however, its all business.A federal economic-stimulus bill, called the Jobs Creation and Workers Assistance Act and signed into law last spring, provides a for a...
Full StoryA prominent Sandpoint family is planning a $31 million, 102-unit condominium development on the last big piece of undeveloped lakefront property inside the North Idaho resort towns city limits. Construction of the sprawling project, to be is...
Full StoryFor Maxine Wolfendale, 85, advancing in age means daily tasks have become daily challenges. Even cooking a healthy meal is difficult for the retired nurse. What was Wolfendales solution? She stopped eating.Enter Havenwood Caregiver which...
Full StoryCOEUR DALENEThe owners of Beehive Homes, an assisted-living center here, have broken ground on the $2 million first phase of a similar facility that will be located at the east end of Sherman Avenue. Beehives owners, Gary Ghramm and his a...
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