Spokane Home Builders Association (SHBA) has hired Michael Cathcart as its director of government affairs. Cathcart has worked as an aide to State Sen. Michael Baumgartner and done other political and neighborhood organizing. He managed the Save Our Spokane campaign in opposition to the Envision…
Washington and other West Coast states have the highest gas prices in the nation – in some case 50 cents higher than the national average. In the Spokane area, average prices remain below $4 a gallon, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Guage Report. On the…
Some good business news for a change: Three area folks have won big in this years's Washington Manufacturing Awards, sponsored by Seattle Business magazine. The awards were announced two weeks ago in Seattle. Manufacturer of the Year: (midsized company (tie): MacKay Manufacturing, Spokane, and Watson…
BNBuilders Inc. is opening a larger office at 15920 E. Indiana Ave., Suite 202, in Spokane Valley. It will serve clients throughout Eastern Washington, Idaho and Montana. BNBuilders offers preconstruction and construction services for complex, management-intensive projects. Those include ground-up construction and tenant improvements for…
The Spokane region remains in the grips of a stubborn recession even as the Seattle area and other leading cities across the country rev up economic activity and new jobs, said Shaun O’L. Higgins, a marketing executive and consultant who for years has delivered financial…
News from our SR West Plains bureau: the City of Airway Heights announced on Friday it's formally annexed the 145 acres the Spokane Tribe hopes to use to develop its Spokane Tribe of Indians Economic Project (STEP). Which would be a casino and eventual resort,…
Among the pleasant discoveries inside the new and restored Mary Lou's Milk Bottle, the fire-damaged food place on West Garland, was the open ceiling area near the main door. Owners Ed and Kris Ritchie found that the ceiling of the building, before the fire, hid…
Wednesday's announcement that the US Postal Service is considering reductions in hours for 13,700 rural post offices doesn't impact other plans that would close urban post offices, including three in the Spokane area. Those are in Hillyard, Parkwater and Dishman. That's the view of Ernie…
Longtime Spokane economic "handicapper" Shaun O'L Higgins gets on stage tomorrow, May 11, for another in his annual forecasts for the region. Higgins, formerly marketing and circulation manager for The Spokesman-Review (now retired), will go over the upticks, downsides and unlikely indicators that provide guidance…
When we last left the Jensen-Byrd saga, the historical preservationists were forming a posse, trying to figure out a way to hijack the former downtown Spokane warehouse and hide it somewhere on the Palouse, to keep it from being torn down. The Texas-based company that…
So the parent company of Twinkies is warning about 250 state workers their jobs are in jeopardy unless union concessions are offered. Fourteen of those 250 work in Spokane. Spokesman.com has a brief summary here. Our hope here is to offer a bit more focus…
The lineup of coming business-related events: Thursday, May 10: Greater Spokane Inc. sponsors a conversation with Jeff Philipps, CEO of Rosauers and chair-elect of GSI's board of trustees. It runs 8 - 9:30 a.m. at the GSI offices, 801 W Riverside, Suite 100. Register here.…
Until today we'd never heard of Everest College. It's a nationwide network of for-profit schools operated by a publicly traded education firm, Corinthian Colleges, out of Santa Ana, Calif. Everest has operations in Seattle and Portland, but nowhere near Spokane or Idaho. The college sent…
Spokane’s Red Lion Hotels is revamping its website in hopes of getting more people to book visits there instead of through online travel sites. Company Executive Vice President Harry Sladich said the makeover will affect the main Redlion.com site plus 44 microsites for the chain’s…
View Larger Map The diVision Thrift Store has begun accepting recycled used or unused clothing and household items and will pay cash or provide store credit. The store's address is 2915 N. Division. Owner Karen Thurston said the goal is to help with community recycling…
If you haven't had a chance to visit the renovated McKinstry Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad building, you ought to find the time. The company, with headquarters in Seattle, has a corps of about 100 workers in the Spokane area. Last fall it finished a…
The patrons have voted, and the new name for the former Bulldog in the Gonzaga Neighborhood is ....University Bar and Grill. Owner Mary Livingston said this week more than a thousand people voted and helped select the location's new name. After Livingston took over the…
Spokane's Ecova, which started life as Avista Advantage and went through a few name changes, has hoisted a new sign on its company office building, 1313 N. Atlantic. The most recent name was Advantage IQ. The company, which manages and analyzes office energy consumption and…
If you're a fan of Spokane's Seven2, you can help the company win a $25K office makeover. Seven2, a digital marketing agency based downtown, is a finalist in an online competition hosted by ecommerce company Turnstone. Seven2 is going up against 23 other businesses, with…
Spokane-based Red Lion Hotels on Tuesday announced it lost $6.6 million in the first quarter of 2012, a net loss of 34 cents per share, compared to a net loss from continuing operations of $4.5 million or 24 cents per share, in the first quarter…
Pacific Steel & Recycling, based in Great Falls, Mont., has purchased Forest Steel Inc. in Dalton Gardens, Idaho, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is effective today. The facility will operate under the Pacific Steel name. Pacific is retaining all 37 employees of Forest Steel,…
Itron, Inc. has finished buying SmartSynch for $100 million. The Liberty Lake company said today the acquisition strengthens its cellular communications offering and will bring greater choice to utility customers across the spectrum of smart metering deployments. Jackson, Miss.-based SmartSynch is the leading provider of…
The wind power farm to be built on the Palouse this summer will include 58 windmills between the town of Oakesdale and State Route 195. That's a little larger than previously announced. Boston-based First Wind had said the wind farm would include 46 turbines. The…
The Spokesman-Review business team follows economic development in Spokane and the Inland Northwest.
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