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Western Garnet moving to Riverstone building

Western Garnet International Ltd., a Coeur dAlene-based provider of industrial garnets, says it will move its headquarters offices this month into Riverstone One, a multitenant office building in the Riverstone development in Coeur dAlene. is a...

Ambassadors nets $71 million

Ambassadors International Inc., of Spokane, has completed a major public offering that has netted the company about $71 million, says Jeffrey Thomas, the companys chief financial officer.The big travel and events coordinator, which had $26.5 a...

District 81 is conducting new study

Spokane School District 81 has launched a facilities study to update a 1997 study that resulted in $104.5 million in improvements and construction projects for Spokane schools, says Mark Anderson, the districts associate superintendent for The...

Doctors’ organization here sees more growth

Northwest Medical Services Organization, a nonprofit doctors group formed here about six years ago, is continuing to grow at a rapid pace, says Jason Sargent, its top management executive.Since last fall, the provider-sponsored entity, is...

Empire Ford will stay downtown

Empire Ford Inc., of Spokane, has begun a $1.1 million remodeling project at its dealership building in downtown Spokane, and says it will stay downtown rather than move to the West Plains as it once considered doing.John Robideaux, a marketing...

Deposits here decline; as investors buy stocks

Total deposits in financial institutions in Spokane County dropped 2.8 percent in the year ended June 30, 1997, newly released figures show, but the decrease probably doesnt reflect on Spokanes economic climate, says a Spokane bank in the as of...

Downtown office-tower project is pushed back

The construction of a planned $50 million, 19-story office tower in downtown Spokane has been delayed due to a lack of tenants and now probably wont start until at least next year, a project spokesman says.The spokesman, Larry Soehren, vice of...

Deposits here decline;as investors buy stocks

Total deposits in financial institutions in Spokane County dropped 2.8 percent in the year ended June 30, 1997, newly released figures show, but the decrease probably doesnt reflect on Spokanes economic climate, says a Spokane bank in the as of...

Worthys to expand office park

Spokane developers Walt and Karen Worthy wont be slowing down much once they finish a lavish restoration of the Davenport Hotel this spring. Walt Worthy says the couple plans to begin construction this summer on another big office building and at...

$4.5 million of work under way at Schade

A $4.5 million rehabilitation project is now under way at the historic Schade Brewery building east of downtown, and the buildings owner says he has landed a tenant that plans to occupy between 15,000 and 20,000 square feet of space on the main a...

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