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Cost Plus chain eyes Spokane area for outlet

Cost Plus Inc., an Oakland, Calif.-based retail chain that sells home decor and imported specialty items, says its eyeing several Spokane-area properties to find a site for an outlet it might open here by late next year.Melissa Oldenbourg, is...

Executive optimism here edges up slightly

In a quarterly survey conducted earlier this month, Spokane business owners and managers voiced slightly greater confidence in the economy than they have all year, but suggested that they continued to believe Spokanes economy was slipping farther...

Use of old asphalt debated

Are the city of Spokane and Spokane County putting down the right mix of materials to pave their roads?Spokane paving contractors say the city and county need to add recycled asphalt to the paving mix thats laid on roads here. They say it for...

Big postal center plans solidify

The U.S. Postal Service appears to be solidifying plans for a huge new processing-and-distribution center in the Spokane International Airport Business Park that will replace an older facility located near downtown.The agency recently completed...

Avista says power supply is adequate

With the regional energy supply improving, Avista Utilities says it should have adequate power to serve its customers this winter.Dick Storro, the Spokane utilitys manager of wholesale marketing, says hes comfortable with the companys on a...

New heart procedures arrive

Heart surgery here and around the nation is going through a revolution.In some cases, surgeons now are using a variety of much smaller incisions to get to the heart, rather than opening up the entire chest, and are avoiding the use of a machine...

Sylvan Furniture will move downtown store

Soon, the familiar old radio and TV jingle for Sylvan Furniture Co.s downtown Spokane store no longer will be applicable. The 56-year-old store is moving to a two-level, 19,000-square-foot building at 1233 N. Division from its three-story, at...

Plan would create new city center in Post Falls

POST FALLSSpokane developer Harry Greens vision for the former Louisiana-Pacific Corp. mill site here involves nothing less than forging a new city center, complete with a town square, a relocated City Hall, and a shoreline park.At a public...

Convention center design firm sought

The Spokane Public Facilities District recently invited firms interested in providing architectural and engineering services for the proposed expansion and remodeling of the Spokane Convention Center to submit qualifications.The district in an a...

Texas investor acquires Valley office complex

James F. Cotter, a San Antonio, Tex.-based real estate investor, has added the Argonne West I & II office complex to his recently startedand fast-growingportfolio of Spokane-area properties.Cotter bought Argonne West I & II, which is located...

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