Spokane Journal of Business

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Accra-Fab to build big plant

The owners of Liberty Lake-based Accra-Fab Inc. plan to build a $6 million, 150,000-square-foot plant at Liberty Lake Center for the company, and have set aside enough land there to build a second building of similar size to accommodate the fast a...

Software developer in Valley reaches nationwide

Dave Lenartz cant seem to take his Technet hat off.For nearly a decade, the Spokane software entrepreneur and other founders of that support group to high-tech companies here have sought ways to bolster Spokanes technology industries. In has...

STA starts condemnation process for light-rail land

The Spokane Transit Authority has taken steps to condemn about 14 acres of land near the Spokane County Fair & Expo Center to use as right of way for a proposed light-rail line and as a site for a passenger station.STA filed a petition in late a...

Super 1 store to be built in Rathdrum

Manito Super 1 Foods Inc., a Hayden Lake-based company that operates Super 1 Foods grocery stores in North Idaho and Western Montana, plans to build a $6 million, 55,000-square-foot supermarket in Rathdrum, Idaho, later this year.Super 1 Foods a...

Gonzaga to build housing on former law school site

Gonzaga University plans to raze in July the soon-to-be-vacated building that currently houses the library and classrooms for its School of Law, and build in the structures place three apartment buildings for student housing.The apartment will...

Sacred Heart to spin off share of surgery center

Sacred Heart Medical Center plans to shift the ownership of its ambulatory surgery center, located in the Sacred Heart Doctors Building on the hospital campus, to a new limited liability corporation that will be owned by Sacred Heart and surgeons a...

Tapping the bucks of the Irish

COEUR DALENE Ilene Moss suspects that theres a mischievous leprechaun loose in the land who steals Irish-wool knit hats.She sells such hats at her Coeur dAlene shop, All Things Irish; the funny thing is, she says, most of the people who...

Longtime burial-vault maker broadens scope

Spokane Wilbert Vault always has been known as a burial-vault maker. Through the years, though, the company quietly has gained a regional reputation as a supplier of hundreds of different precast concrete products, ranging from water tanks to To...

Learning center opens in EWU facility here

Eastern Washington University has opened up its building in downtown Spokane to a consortium that plans to offer job assessment and training to employees who work in the downtown core and to people who are looking for entry-level positions.The a...

Out-of-town SBA lender enters Spokane

Commerce Loan Co., a division of San Diego-based Bank of Commerce, has opened a loan-production office in the Spokane Valley.The office, at 2510 N. Pines, is the 23rd location for Commerce Loan, which has received a preferred lender designation...

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