Scott and Deanna Reckord, who operate the Sullivan Scoreboard Bar and Grill, will open a new sports bar and pub in the former Painted Hills Golf Course clubhouse, at 4403 S. Dishman-Mica Road. They call the business the Clubhouse at Painted Hills. Developer Dave Black,…
Spokane startup Beardbrand, a men’s grooming products company, will compete for financial backing during Friday’s network TV show “Shark Tank.” Company CEO Eric Bandholz will introduce the company and products to the show’s panel of five “sharks” or business or venture fund advisers. Beardbrand's ecommerce…
The Nut Factory, a fixture along Interstate 90 for more than 15 years, will close its retail store-production site and move its wholesale operations to another warehouse. Owner Gene Cohen said the Spokane Valley site, at 19425 E. Broadway Ave., will be closed in the…
Seattle travel-advisory company Utrip has added Spokane to its online directory of city destinations. The free service, also available through VisitSpokane.com, provides suggestions for travelers to find and experience a city using Utrip’s suggestions. Utrip, started in Seattle by former Spokane resident Gilad Berenstein, provides…
Are you ready to pay for your parking with a smart phone? City officials believe that's the future. They're testing and about to deploy eventually a couple hundred new-styled parking meters that allow payments via apps (or through near-field communication, for those with NFC-enabled devices).…
Spokane company Dionysus Technologies Inc. has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to help develop and distribute its innovative system for improving the taste of wine. It's called the Sonic Decanter, and the $85,090 Kickstarter campaign is part of the plan to release the…
Who is the guy brave enough to take a chance on developing the rocky one acre plot just along Ruby Street, near Gonzaga University? He's David Schneider, a developer out of Southern California. He and partners (not identified) are working on a 60-unit Ruby Apartments…
If you wondered how Spokane's 14-year-old phenom entrepreneur Brooke Martin is doing, here's the answer. She's doing very well. Her company, icPooch, is up and running and selling the widely-heralded icPooch treat dispenser she developed with her father, Chris Martin, and others. She recently won…
We print the quarterly Hart Capital NW stock index, which shows a relative gauge of 12 area publicly traded companies. It's measured against the S&P 500. Here's the 3Q index in graphic form. The story that goes with the index summary ran last week.
AmericanWestBank has announced plans to acquire Bank of Sacramento. The deal, announced Wednesday, is subject to regulatory and shareholder approval. Founded in 1998, Bank of Sacramento has $468 million in assets and four branches, all in the Sacramento area. AmericanWest has $4 billion in assets,…
Spokane Mayor David Condon is the guest speaker tomorrow -- Thursday -- at a business lunch hosted by K&L Gates law firm. The lunch runs from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Lincoln Center, at 1316 N. Lincoln St. Condon will speak on the…
Greater Spokane Incorporated is hosting a Green Economy symposium in downtown Spokane today (Wednesday), starting at 3:30 p.m. at the Spokane Club. Who's presenting? Patrick O'Keefe, a senior VP and managing director at CH2M Hill; Elson Floyd, president of Washington State University; and Philip Mezey,…
Spokane-based Red Lion Hotels is not done with its plans for Seattle. Two months ago it announced it will sell its Bellevue hotel. Last year it also sold off its downtown hotel and made it one of its franchise properties. On Monday the company announced…
Josh Wade, who launched Nectar Tasting Room in 2011 in downtown Spokane, is adding a wine-and-beer specialty store and pub in the Kendall Yards neighborhood. He will move into a 2,200-square-foot space adjoining Veraci Pizza, east of Central Food. His new location will be called…
Finders Keepers Jewelry store on Spokane, originally started by Deena Caruso, is closing down. It's offering huge markdowns to help sell off its inventory, that's it, said co-owner Connie Pearce. Here's their Facebook page. The expected last day is Oct. 25. Caruso was the guiding…
About 40 U.S. attorneys general announced they arranged a $105 million settlement with AT&T Mobility to resolve consumer problems over the problem of cell phone "cramming" charges. Washington will get about $807,000 from the settlement. Idaho will get about $230,000 from the settlement. The news…
Spokane’s Women’s Business Center is hosting a session Friday morning on landing contracts with area government and education agencies or with Fairchild Air Force Base. Aimed at small-business owners and managers, the free event runs 8 a.m. to noon at the East Central Community Center,…
Spokane marketing and advertising firm Market Vision Inc. has relocated to new offices at 3925 N. Monroe St., in the Garland District. For about 15 years the company has been based in the historic former city firehouse at 1229 N. Monroe. KPBX Public Radio purchased…
Brandon Foote, CEO of OnPOINT Imaging, a Spokane Valley-based company, will be the speaker at Wednesday's Executive Connect breakfast at the Spokane Club, on the corner of Riverside and Monroe. OnPOINT Imaging, which Foote founded, is a provider of document imaging, network integration and electronic…
Friday's story about the former owners of Vision Quest gyms had only as much information as was supplied to us by a PR company. Today (Sept. 12) we got to talk with partner Jeff Carlson. Three key points: * He isn't a Spokane native, correcting…
As we noted last week, the owner of Dawn Of the Donut was looking for a new owner to take over the zombie-themed bakery, which has a storefront on North Division. If he couldn't, owner Marty Judnich was ready to close the shop. Today the…
Liberty Lake-based Itron Inc. has named W. Mark Schmitz as its new chief financial officer and executive vice president. Schmitz has more than four decades of experience in finance and executive roles in manufacturing, service, retail and technology industries. Most recently he was CFO of…
The owner of Dawn of the Donut, a Spokane bakery that served a variety of zombie-themed baked goods, will close the business next week. The business opened in August 2013 with a storefront at 3402 N. Division St, and a roving donut truck. The owner,…
Wednesday's SR had a quick hit on the general softening of the "flipper" home sale market, in Spokane and nationwide. But not in Seattle, where the high-rollers keep buying and selling, above the national average. (See the graphic below.) The story relied entirely on data…
Is this the Bennett Block or the House the Hiebers Built? Dru Hieber, whose family first developed the downtown Spokane block on Main and Howard, looks ahead to a new and more dynamic business center on the family's property. See our Monday story for more…
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