Japan remains a place of opportunity for businesses in Spokane and Washington state, despite being entrenched in the worst recession in its history and having a lingering reputation for resisting imports, says Thomas Foley, U.S. ambassador to Japan...
Full StoryCompanies affiliated with Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, have quietly loaned the owner of the Davenport Hotel property downtown more than $1.5 million over the last 18 months, Spokane County records show.The affiliate Inc. &...
Full StorySpokane developer Rob Brewster Jr. is leading a group of investors who are seeking tenants for a proposed 25-story, $35 million-to-$40 million office tower at the corner of Riverside Avenue and Howard Street in downtown Spokane.Two other groups...
Full StorySacred Heart Medical Center has made an offer to buy the Fifth & Browne Medical Center, a busy 66,000-square-foot complex at 104 W. Fifth at the base of the South Hill.We made the offer because of the location, says Sacred Heart spokeswoman...
Full StoryA tiny Spokane Valley company is providing a unique product to the automotive worldcustom grill and truck medallions and data plates for antique (and sometimes not so antique) vehicles.Owner Jerry Turner says he knows of no other source for as...
Full StoryPounded by depressed metals prices and the Asian contagion, Spokane industrial manufacturer Rahco International Inc. has suffered substantial hits to both its revenues and employment level in the past 18 months. Down but not out, the longtime in...
Full StoryThe Five Mile Corp., of Spokane, has proposed developing a 287-lot subdivision, to be called Falcon Ridge, on almost 122 acres located on Five Mile Prairie, where neighbors have contested several recent subdivision proposals.The proposed would a...
Full StoryWilli Aigner, a Portland, Ore., man who owns an indoor soccer facility there, plans to open a similar facility in the Spokane Valley by fall, says Brian Dreves, who will manage the soccer center here.The facility, which will be called the Soccer...
Full StoryItron Inc., of Spokane, is developing a radio-based data collection system for the meters of commercial and industrial energy users, and expects to begin producing the equipment here during the second half of this year.Mima Scarpelli, Itrons a...
Full StoryH.F. Enterprises, a Spangle, Wash. family trust, plans to develop a $3.1 million, three-story speculative office building in the Argonne-Mullan corridor in the Spokane Valley.The planned 55,700-square-foot structure would be located on a site of...
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