Shopping center planned at Hayford, Sunset Hwy.

Paul Read

Granite Investments LLC, a Spokane partnership led by prominent developer Dick Vandervert, says it expects to start work next spring on a 30-acre shopping center along the Sunset Highway near Airway Heights.The planned 161,000-square-foot is to...

Avista Labs to move to old Itron building

Linn Parish

Avista Laboratories Inc., Avista Corp.s Spokane-based technology-development company thats commonly referred to as Avista Labs, plans to move its operations into a former Itron Inc. office-and-manufacturing building in the Spokane Business & in...

LineSoft sets its sights on broadband industry

Linn Parish

In the course of doubling in size this year, LineSoft Corp., the Spokane-based maker of software for power-line planning and design, has discovered a new market that it believes has the potential to account for tens of millions of dollars in within...

Divine Corp. to open ninth outlet here

Sandra Hosking

Divine Corp., of Spokane, plans to open a gas station-convenience store next month at the northwest corner of Mission Avenue and Greene Street, near Spokane Community College.The outlet would be the companys ninth in the Spokane area, counting...

A hamburger hit since 1907

COEUR DALENEThings dont change much at Hudsons Hamburgers.Sure, the place has moved a few times, but only by a matter of feet. Oh, and it did add three stools to its counter seating in 1983. Thats about it. Otherwise, Hudsons, in...

Regional lab plans to relocate

Kim Crompton

Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories Inc. (PAML), the Spokane-based regional medical laboratory that performs large numbers of tests on bodily fluids, plans to move its Spokane operations next year from two locations in the Spokane Valley to a...

Washington Trust Bank expands express branch

Lisa Harrell

Washington Trust Bank, of Spokane, is expanding its express bank branch at the northwest corner of Southeast Boulevard and 29th Avenue on Spokanes South Hill into a full-service branch.Lea Werner, the banks spokeswoman, says Washington Trust...

Park to get hotel, first plant

Paul Read

Granite Investments LLC, the Spokane company that plans to develop a 152-acre high-technology park near Spokane International Airport, says it now has decided to build a $10 million, 120-room Hilton Gardens hotel in the development.That project...

Colleges eye economic, public policy institute

Lisa Harrell

Four Spokane-area colleges are studying the possibility of developing jointly an institute that would collect and analyze economic data for the Spokane area and use that data to provide research for and to advise leaders on public policy committee...

Fiber-Tech Industries expands operation here

Linn Parish

Fiber-Tech Industries Inc., a Spokane-based manufacturer of fiberglass-reinforced plywood panels for the transportation industry, is expanding. The company has leased an additional 40,000 square feet of industrial space in the Spokane Business &...