A Spokane-based company called Pacific Rim Ethanol LLC hopes to start building a $122 million ethanol plant at Moses Lake, Wash., this year, says Douglas MacKenzie, the companys president and chief executive officer.The plant essentially will...
Full StoryA Post Falls tax-increment financing district formed to help recruit the big Harpers Inc. office-furniture plant there in 1993 is expected to be dissolved at the end of next year, when it finishes repaying bonds sold to pay for infrastructure so be...
Full StoryHoneywell Electronic Materials Interconnect Metals, a strategic business unit of Honeywell here that formerly was owned by Johnson Matthey Electronics, is planning to release two new products this summer that are expected to boost employment at the...
Full StoryAshley Gardens Management Inc., of Issaquah, Wash., is building a 20-bed facility for victims of Alzheimers disease and other forms of dementia about a block east of Mead High School, and expects to break ground this spring on another facility...
Full StoryMerrily Bjerkestrand sips soup silently. She cuts her salad greens into petite portions and tears off bite-sized bits of a breadstick with her fingers instead of her teeth. Across from her, I put my elbows on the table faster than you can spell...
Full StoryColdwater Creek Inc., the Sandpoint, Idaho-based retailer that started with catalogs and last year exploded onto the Internet and doubled to four its number of full-line retail stores, expects to open four to six more stores in its next fiscal in a...
Full StoryA Spokane-based Internet start-up called Dealerswap.com says it will launch within the next few months an innovative web site that will serve auto dealers nationwide.Though still cloaked in secrecy as to the exact services the venture will the a...
Full StoryCost Plus Inc., an Oakland, Calif.-based retail chain that sells imported home dcor and specialty items, appears to have firmed up earlier reported plans to enter the Spokane market.A city of Spokane building-plan reviewer says the city is to a...
Full StoryThe federal government has denied the city of Spokanes application for designation as an empowerment zone.Started in 1993, the empowerment zone program offers qualifying communities $100 million in federal grants over 10 years, and tax breaks...
Full StoryCKE Restaurants Inc., of Anaheim, Calif., says it plans to open between eight and 12 Carls Jr. fast-food restaurants in the Spokane-Coeur dAlene area during the next two years.Suzi Brown, CKEs director of public relations, says the company...
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Rocket engineer propels Gonzaga engineering program
Historic buildings face hurdles for energy-law compliance
Coffee, sandwich shop finds footing in GU area
