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Welch Comer to open office in Liberty Lake

Welch Comer & Associates Inc., a consulting civil engineering company based in Coeur dAlene, is opening a 12-person office in Liberty Lake. For its new office, the company will lease about 2,000 square feet of space in a new building at 2310...

CU buys Egghead buildings

Spokane Teachers Credit Union, one of Spokanes biggest credit unions, has bought a two-building office complex on 11.3 acres in the MeadowWood Business Park at Liberty Lake from Spokanes Egghead.com Inc., and plans to move about 85 employees of...

SIRTI to be separate agency

The Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute (SIRTI) will embark on a new life starting July 1, when it becomes a separate state agency.The move is expected to boost the institutes profile, allow it to garner more money from a...

Young biowaste-to-energy concern to power up

Energy Flow Management Inc., a young Spokane-based company that greatly increased its presence here in January when it acquired longtime electrical contractor Colvico Inc., plans this spring to begin using farm manure to generate Energy Flow is to...

Sacred Heart reacquires assets of surgery center

Sacred Heart Medical Center has reacquired the assets of Doctors Building Day Surgery, which for the last two years has been owned and operated as a for-profit venture by Inland Northwest Ambulatory Surgery Center LLC.The hospital has bought out...

WSU plans scaled-down power plant in Pullman

Washington State Universitys plan to build a big power plant on its Pullman campus has been scaled back, but the project could get under way as early as June.If the plant receives various approvals, it would entail construction of a $56 system...

Two buildings planned in Liberty Lake area

Two companies owned partly by Spokane developer Steve Schmautz plan to develop two professional buildings in the Liberty Lake area that together are expected to cost about $3.6 million. Work is expected to get under way on both buildings by May,...

Spokane financial-services company is adding workers, showin

A little over a year ago, Spokane-based Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. was in the midst of slashing its large work force by more than half as it exited the high-volume, low-margin mortgage-banking market and sought to redirect its resources...

AmericanWest set to expand

AmericanWest Bank, of Spokane, plans to open four new facilities in the Spokane area and North Idaho this year and hopes to move its downtown-Spokane branch next year into a sizable new building that it says developers are planning to construct in...

Post Falls hospital will cost close to $18 million

A group of North Idaho physicians and a Chicago company have firmed up their plans to build a specialty surgical hospital in Post Falls, saying they plan to construct the facility at the northeast corner of Mullan Avenue and Syringa Street there, a...

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