Spokane Journal of Business

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‘Spec’ industrial building going up

Garco Development Services, of Spokane, is developing a speculative, 36,000-square-foot industrial building at Liberty Lake for a California investor.The two-story, concrete-walled structure is being erected at the far east end of Metropolitan &...

Furniture chain mulls closures here

United Furniture Warehouse, a Canadian-based 155-store discount chain, is considering closing one or more of its three stores in the Spokane-Coeur dAlene area as part of a scaling back of its struggling U.S. operations, says company President are...

Three more stores on plan for Valley Mall strip center

A proposed retail strip center west of the Spokane Valley Mall might house T.J. Maxx, Sportsmans Warehouse, and Linens n Things outlets, according to a grading-permit application that Salt Lake City-based mall owner JP Realty Inc. has filed in...

Pizza-pan maker buys Cheney concern’s assets

Lloyd Industries Inc., a Spokane-based pizza-pan and equipment maker, has bought the assets of Paul Eyraud Co., a Cheney business that made commercial baking products and Martha Stewart Living-brand baking pans. The transaction will allow Lloyd...

L-P mill site likely sold to Spokane buyer

A Spokane developer has agreed to buy the former Louisiana-Pacific Corp. mill site in Post Falls for $1.7 million, the real estate broker who is handling the planned transaction says.The Hayden Lake-based broker, Bill Robinette, of Coeur Banker...

Fowler returns to franchising

W. Berry Fowler didnt leave the franchising world for long.Two years ago, the Spokane entrepreneur, who earlier had founded such franchising giants as Sylvan Learning Centers and Little Gym International Inc., set out to build a corporate of A...

Survey reveals diversity of recent home buyers

Half of the people who bought homes in Spokane and Kootenai counties last year had lived in the area less than two years, and about a quarter of those people moved here to be near their families, not for job-related reasons.Furthermore, while to...

BFGoodrich to double employment this year

BFGoodrich Aerospace, a division of the big Charlotte, N.C.-based BFGoodrich Co. that makes carbon brake disks for aircraft brakes at its West Plains plant, expects to double its employment here this year to more than 100 employees.Ben Duncan, a...

High-rise group tweaks tower costs, eyes anchors

The development team thats pursuing a proposed $50 million-plus office tower in downtown Spokane is working to cut estimated costs enough to ensure the project is viable, and hopes to move forward with construction design this summer.Were to...

Airport, FedEx negotiate plans for cargo facility

Spokane Airports is negotiating with FedEx Corp., of Memphis, Tenn., to build a 120,000-square-foot, cargo-sorting facility at Spokane International Airport Business Park, says Spokane Airports CEO John Morrison.The big shipping company wants to...

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