Offiicals with the Community Colleges of Spokane have signed a deal with Barnes & Noble College to operate its campus bookstores. Campus bookstores on both community college campuses will begin be operated by Barnes & Noble College, a division of Barnes & Noble, starting this...
Liberty Lake-based Telect Inc. was chosen the 2014 Washington Family Business of the Year during awards at a recent Seattle banquet. Telect makes and designs network equipment and software solutions. Choosing Telect was Seattle Business magazine. The publication gave the family-owned business the Family Business…
Today's main business news was the asset swap between two materials-construction firms in the region. Spokane Rock Products sold its asphalt operations in Spokane to Inland Asphalt, also based in Spokane. In return, Spokane Rock Products acquired the concrete and aggregate business of Central Pre-Mix,...
Bad gifts are being purchased as we speak. Our contribution for today, a list from Consumer Reports on what most Americans consider the worst gift choices. A quarter of those surveyed said hard liquor (spirits such as whiskey, rum, tequila) was the gift they least...
This item was corrected after WSU revised the length of Barbieri's term and its start date. Gov. Jay Inslee has appointed Spokane business and community leader Don Barbieri to the Washington State University Board of Regents. “Don Barbieri has spent the majority of his professional…
Spokane educational toy and game retailer Whiz Kids will move to the third level of River Park Square, next to the Nordstrom third floor entry. The shop will take 4,000 square feet in a corner location that has never been leased up to now, said…
The news from the guys making the Sonic Decanter wine-improvement tool got two bits of good news recently. One was surpassing the $85,000 Kickstarter target the company set, in order to begin manufacturing the device. Here's an earlier post to give you the background. The…
Gonzaga men’s basketball coach Mark Few tops the latest list of highest-paid private university employees for the Pacific Northwest region at over $1.2 million per year. Few, who last month was named the nation's best college basketball coach for the money by Forbes magazine, earned…
"Green Friday" may have prompted a surge of sales at local marijuana retailers, but more revenue was reported the day before Thanksgiving and earnings modestly increased from prior Friday rushes in November, according to numbers reported by the state's Liquor Control Board. Statewide, legal pot…
Red Lion Hotels is crossing the continental divide and will open a new Hotel RL in Baltimore next year. Today's SR story lays out the background on the deal, which will convert the Keyser Building from offices to a stylish downtown Baltimore hotel. Here's a…
Josh Hissong says his new downtown Spokane burger place is expected to open in March 2015, in the Michael Building at the corner of Lincoln Street and Sprague Avenue. That’s the site of former restaurants Travo’s and Agavé. The Burger Lab was his first choice…
Here's one architectural rendering of the planned commercial-retail building that will go up at Ninth and Perry in the South Perry District of Spokane. Owners Lisanne Laurier and Harold Preiksaitis say work will start on footings now, with construction likely to conclude in summer 2015.…