Spokane Journal of Business

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WAM plans to build call center for Dakotah

WAM Enterprises Inc., of Spokane, is buying a piece of land in Liberty Lake and plans to construct a new call center there for Dakotah Direct Inc., the big Spokane-based telemarketing concern.The new building will be constructed on a 1.7-acre in...

H-P to add 50 more jobs here

Hewlett-Packard Co.s Spokane division, which primarily designs and manufactures radio-frequency test equipment, plans to hire as many as 50 additional workers here this year and is adding temporary space to ease overcrowding at its Liberty Lake a...

Empire Financial sues one of its former execs

Empire Financial Group Inc. and its affiliated companies, which together are the target of both a federal civil lawsuit and a state securities investigation, have filed suit in Spokane County Superior Court against one of their former the new suit,...

UI sets big plans for park

POST FALLSFrom a spare Jacklin Land Co. office inside the newest building at the Riverbend Commerce Park here, Doug McQueen is busy drafting big plans for the University of Idahos research park project, which is slated for property next to the...

Valley couplet would displace 75 to 95 homes

A 2.5-mile one-way couplet proposed along the Sprague Avenue corridor in the Spokane Valley would displace between 25 and 30 single-family homes, some 50 to 65 mobile homes, and a seven-unit apartment complex, according to a draft supplemental on A...

Pier 1 Imports to open Northpointe Plaza store

Pier 1 Imports Inc., of Fort Worth, Texas, plans to open a store later this year in the Northpointe Plaza shopping center on Spokanes North Side, says company spokeswoman Joy Rich.Pier 1 has leased a 10,000-square-foot, free-standing building...

Investors buy Best building

Two companies from Wisconsin and California bought the former Best Products Co. building and the nearby Cascade Plaza retail strip center in the Northgate Shopping Center in north Spokane for a combined $4.5 million last month.Continental 80 an...

Plans for industrial park project are taking shape

Crown West Realty LLC, which operates the huge Spokane Business & Industrial Park in the Spokane Valley, is refining plans for a $15 million commercial and light-industrial center on vacant land just south of the parks main entrance.The center...

Spokane Valley Plaza work to begin shortly

Summit Property Development says it expects to begin work shortly on a 30,000-square-foot, multitenant building in the Spokane Valley Plaza, a power center anchored by Wal-Mart and located just south of Interstate 90 and east of Sullivan Harding, &...

Group plans ‘strawboard’ plants

A consortium of wheat growers and others in Eastern Washington hopes to open at least three manufacturing plants, including one just south of Spokane, to make particle board out of straw.Each of the factories would cost between $5 million and to...

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