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Avista Labs to move to old Itron building

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...

Deaconess to expand tower

Empire Health Services plans in February to launch an $18 million expansion project at its Deaconess Medical Center complex.In the project, four stories that will contain about 88,000 square feet of medical office space will be added atop the &...

Fairgrounds plan shows $8.7 million in projects

The Spokane County Fair & Expo Center has created a master plan outlining roughly $8.7 million worth of expansions and upgrades at its facilities here.The plan was drawn up to clarify the fairgrounds long-range goals and to provide information...

Minera Andes reaches exploration agreement

Minera Andes Inc., a small Spokane mining exploration company, says its joint-venture partner in an Argentinian gold and silver prospect will exercise its option to proceed with extensive exploration of the property.Such work is done as a mining...

Park owners begin work to expand Chimney Rock

Expansion plans announced three years ago are proceeding at the Chimney Rock Industrial Park, which is located near the intersection of Freya and Trent.Two buildings, one which will include about 28,300 square feet of floor space and another of...

Empire Health joins with cancer-care physicians

Empire Health Services, which owns and operates Deaconess Medical Center and Valley Hospital & Medical Center, has contracted with Cancer Care Northwest PS, a physician-owned enterprise here, to provide radiation-oncology services in Zellers, chief...

Big media company buys building on East Sprague

Clear Channel Communications Inc., a big San Antonio, Texas-based, diversified-media company that recently acquired six Spokane radio stations as part of a huge transaction, has bought a 16,500-square-foot building at 808 E. Sprague and plans to of...

New hotel rises near downtown

Baney Corp., a Bend, Ore.-based hotel developer, has begun construction of a new Oxford Suites hotel along the north bank of the Spokane River near downtown Spokane.Bruce Sleep, a project supervisor for Baney, says that the hotel, which is being...

State archives facility now proposed at EWU

A new Washington state regional archives building, which had been planned at the Riverpoint Higher Education Park just east of downtown Spokane, now likely will be built at Eastern Washington Universitys Cheney campus on about five acres near the...

Greenstone to put office in Liberty Lake building

Greenstone Corp., a Spokane-based development and construction company, plans to build a $2.5 million office structure at Liberty Lake and consolidate its offices there next year.The project still is being designed, so some details havent been...

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