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• Bellevue Square plans $1.2 billion expansion

  May 20, 2013 in Business BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — Developer Kemper Freeman plans a $1.2 billion expansion of his Bellevue Square, Bellevue Place and Lincoln Square hotel and shopping complex in downtown Bellevue, Wash. 24

• Vestal: Hip block of West Main crying out for edgy moniker

  April 3, 2013 in City on Page A1 You know something’s really alive when you get the urge to name it. That’s where things stand in the little block on the east end of West Main Avenue – … 40

• Riverstone development in Coeur d’Alene hitting stride

  March 27, 2013 in City on Page A1 It takes a brisk pace to keep up with John Stone as he ducks in and out of new stores at Riverstone, his live/work/shop/play community built on former industrial land … 10

• Electronics retailer Huppin’s consolidating to north Spokane store

  March 15, 2013 in Business on Page A1 Huppin’s TV, Audio, Cameras and More, one of Spokane’s oldest and best-known retail businesses, will close its downtown store and consolidate its retail operations in the company’s north Spokane location. … 19

• Huppin’s to close downtown Spokane store

  March 14, 2013 in Business, City Huppin’s, TV Audio Cameras and More, one of downtown Spokane’s best-recognized retail businesses, will close its store at 401 W. Main, consolidating its retail operations at its north Spokane store. … 87

• Coldwater Creek posts fourth-quarter loss

  March 13, 2013 in Business Sandpoint retailer Coldwater Creek reported fourth-quarter losses of $19.9 million and 66 cents a share, compared with a loss of $12 million and 42 cents a share one year earlier. 2

• Front Porch: Mourning the loss of a neighbor

  January 31, 2013 in Washington Voices on Page S1 It’s like a death, really. The news that the north Spokane Fred Meyer store was closing stunned me. For more than 20 years I’ve weekly walked the store’s aisles. I’m … 2

• Vestal: Simple scents make good retail sense

  November 28, 2012 in City on Page A5 It’s beginning to smell a lot like Christmas. Pine, cinnamon, gingerbread, mulled wine, roasting chestnuts – all the sensory cues that strap us to the mast of seasonal nostalgia. Retailers, … 5

• Cautious optimism and a little insanity

  November 24, 2012 in City on Page A1 With mounds of blingy jeans under a pink Christmas tree, the boutique women’s clothing store Vivo threw open its doors at the stroke of midnight Friday – as did about … 10

• H&M opens in Spokane Valley

  October 26, 2012 in City on Page A5 Eager fashionistas lined up early Thursday morning for the high noon opening of clothing store H&M at the Spokane Valley Mall. The international retailer based in Sweden opened its first … 8

• Developer buys old CompUSA building

  August 14, 2012 in Business on Page A1 Spokane developer Jerry Dicker has added the former CompUSA building to his company’s roster of properties. Dicker, the principal manager of Spokane-based GVD Commercial Properties, is paying roughly $3 million … 9

• GVD Commercial buys CompUSA building

  August 13, 2012 in City Spokane developer Jerry Dicker has added the former CompUSA building to his company’s roster of downtown properties. 9

• Retail sales up nearly everywhere but Spokane

  April 27, 2012 in Business, City Retail sales increased in most metro areas of Washington last year, but they declined in Spokane. Taxable retail sales in the city slid 1.2 percent in 2011, to $3.6 billion, … 25

• Boise gets Nordstrom Rack

  April 13, 2012 in Business on Page A10 BOISE – Has the city without a Nordstrom finally ended its sad distinction? This is Boise, where shoppers used to pack buses bound for the Nordstrom store in Ogden, Utah, …

• Idaho finally gets a Nordstrom store

  April 12, 2012 in City On Thursday, the first Nordstrom store in the state of Idaho opened. 2

• Best Buy to cut costs and close stores

  March 29, 2012 in Business Best Buy Co. said it plans to close 50 U.S. big box stores and open 100 small mobile locations in the U.S. in fiscal 2013 and cut $800 million in … 25

• End of world? Zombie apocalypse? Retailers have goods for you

  March 18, 2012 in City on Page A1 “TEOTWAWKI.” Survivalists – or “preppers,” as they refer to one another – immediately recognize those initials as standing for “the end of the world as we know it.” 13

• Old Country Buffet closes 2 Spokane restaurants

  January 23, 2012 in Business, City The last two Old Country Buffet restaurants in Spokane County have closed as part of the company’s Chapter 11 reorganization. 29

• Last-minute holiday shopping gives lift in finale

  December 28, 2011 in Business, Nation/World The holiday shopping season turned out to be two seasons split by a big lull.

• Sears to close 100 to 120 Kmart, Sears stores

  December 27, 2011 in Business Sears Holdings Corp. plans to close between 100 and 120 Sears and Kmart stores after poor sales during the holidays, the most crucial time of year for retailers. 23

• Seasonal hiring brings down unemployment rate

  November 22, 2011 in Business, City Seasonal hiring of educators and retail workers helped push Spokane County’s unemployment rate down last month. It fell to 8.3 percent in October, down from September’s revised rate of 8.4 … 2

• Grocery Outlet opens new location downtown

  October 26, 2011 in Business on Page A8 A Grocery Outlet discount store is opening Thursday in downtown Spokane, bringing a new choice for customers in an area with few supermarkets but plenty of residents. It will join …

• Empty Safeway will reopen as Grocery Outlet

  August 1, 2011 in Business, City The empty Safeway supermarket on West Third in Spokane will reopen this fall as a Grocery Outlet store. 17

• DirectBuy’s Spokane showroom has closed

  May 12, 2011 in Business on Page A8 The Spokane showroom of DirectBuy, a nationwide, members-only shopping club, closed this week. A spokeswoman at DirectBuy’s Indiana headquarters, however, said the company is trying to find a new showroom … 2

• DirectBuy’s Spokane showroom has closed

  May 11, 2011 in News The Spokane showroom of DirectBuy, a nationwide, members-only shopping club, closed this week. A spokeswoman at DirectBuy’s Indiana headquarters, however, said the company is trying to find a new showroom … 10

• Trader Joe’s headed to South Hill

  November 17, 2010 in City Trader Joe’s, a nationwide chain that’s created a legion of food-loving fans, announced it will open its first Spokane store next year. 24

• Local retailers ready to cure shoppers’ ‘frugality fatigue’

  October 31, 2010 in Business, City on Page A1 Penn Fix, president of Dodson’s Jewelers in downtown Spokane, just finished a good week. On Tuesday a customer visited his family-owned jewelry store and left after buying a $14,000 diamond … 16

• Permits reveal Apple’s plan for downtown Spokane store

  May 27, 2010 in Business, City Trend-setting retailer Apple Inc. is listed as the tenant on city building permits that indicate the company will move into the space vacated by Eddie Bauer in downtown Spokane. 11

• Valley Trading Company has lighter, brighter look

  May 8, 2010 in Washington Voices on Page V1 The Trading Company store at McDonald Road and Sprague Avenue in Spokane Valley finished an interior remodel last month. The work, which began in early December, focused on making the …

• Thrift store also a place of refuge

  April 4, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 When Renee Wolf left her old life on the West Coast to start fresh in North Idaho, leaving behind a violent ex-husband, she vowed to help any domestic abuse victim …

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