A major project along north Division street will start later this year. This aerial rendering, compliments of Spokane's Bernardo Wills Architects, shows the projected end result. IF you know your Spokane development scenarios, you know exactly who's doing this multimillion dollar project. If you don't,…
It's National Small Business Week, and Idaho Sen. Jim Risch chose Sandpoint's Quest Aircraft as the state's Small Business of the Day. The company was honored in Monday's Congressional Record of the United States Senate. The company produces the highly regarded Kodiak single-prop aircraft, used…
Spokane brothers Ken and Scott Atkins have purchased the former Midas Muffler shop at 10415 E. Sprague, in Spokane Valley. They're starting a new automotive service center called Quantum Mechanics, They'll cover the waterfront, doing the full variety of vehicle service but they'll also focus…
Saad’s Shoe Repair, one of the first businesses to move into the NorthTown Mall, is moving out. Current owner Larry Alfano said he's relocating the shoe business to the nearby Northtown Office Building at 4407 N. Division St. Saad's has been in the mall since…
AT&T announced it has turned on a 4G LTE network for the Spokane area. A spokesman for AT&T said the company T&T made nearly 50 wireless network upgrades in Spokane last year that included activating new cell sites, adding capacity, and upgrading cell sites to…
The anticipated start of construction of the new Kendall Yards segment of the Centennial Trail started today, according to the Kendall Yards Facebook page. This is part of the Greenstone company's commitment to make the mixed-use near-downtown development a fully integrated part of the riverbank…
On Sunday the SR ran a story on the plans by area downtown building managers to turn off, during Hoopfest, the "Mosquito" devices that were installed in the past year to deter loitering by young people. If you care to dive a little deeper, here's…
Vivint Inc., a Provo-based home automation company, will hold two job fairs later this month as a way to identify workers for a new Liberty Lake call center office. Today's SR story summarizes the announcement of the company's decision to add an office here. The…
Downtown retail alert: River Park Square announced Fan Suite, a rental meeting and entertainment venue, is opening on the mall's third floor. It's taking about 1,000 square feet next to Nordstrom. The location has three flat-screen TVs in a family living room setting, with seating…
Earlier in May The SR published an item about Gonzaga University beginning plans to build a $6 million tennis-golf center on the east edge of the Spokane campus. The story didn't provide a good map. This photo, from Google Maps, will help locate where the…
Seven Spokane area businesses or nonprofits won Agora awards Wednesday, an annual excellence in business designation presented by Greater Spokane Incorporated. They winners and categories were: Two Wheel Transit (small business) Arbor Crest Wine Cellars (medium business) STCU (large business) Spokane H.O.P.E. School (small nonprofit);…
Pete and Merline Roundy, who've operated a motorcycle all-terrain vehicle shop in north Spokane for more than 35 years, will close their store on Saturday. The Roundys, both 77, opened their first Roundy's Kawasaki shop in 1976. Within the past year the couple has decided…
Oh lord, Charlie Schmidt! You had to sell out, didn't you? Schmidt is the Spokane graphic artist behind Fatso, the web meme cat of "Keyboard Cat" fame. Today, Fatso, who's in feline heaven, must be rolling angrily in his catnip. Sadly, Schmidt allowed a toy…
CNBC's Power Lunch will feature Josh Neblett, CEO and co-founder of Spokane green-retailer GreenCupboards on Wednesday (June 5) from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the network's Power Pitch program. In the segment, the hosts give Neblett 60 seconds to "power" pitch his e-commerce start-up.…
Starting July 30, all Spokane cable TV subscribers getting Comcast’s limited basic channels will need free equipment to unscramble the signals. Many of the roughly 8,000 Spokane subscribers getting the lower-priced channels already have digital-converter boxes that unscramble those signals, said Comcast Spokane General Manager…
Community Frameworks Inc., a nonprofit housing development agency, is converting a the former nursing home at 424 W. Seventh Ave. into 29 apartments primarily for modest-income residents. The building, originally known as the Garden Terrace Manor, was built in the 1950s. It’s been vacant for…
Contract manufacturer Key Tronic Corp. is buying Mexican sheet metal firm Sabre Manufacturing for $5.1.million. Spokane Valley-based Key Tronic started out decades ago as a maker of keyboards. Over the last 15 years it transformed into a contract manufacturer, with production facilities in Spokane, China…
People are generally kind, and gullible. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and the Better Business Bureau are telling state residents to be wary of potential fraudulent efforts to collect "disaster relief" for the victims of the killer tornado that hit Moore, Okla. this month. “I…
Spokane’s clean air agency has told Spokane’s Beacon Cleaners to take a hike. And that’s a good thing. The laundry is the first dry cleaner in Spokane to earn “no-longer-regulated” status from the Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency. In recent years, Beacon has installed cleaning…
We can't go two days without another mention of the proposed STEP project, which would begin with a proposed Spokane Tribe casino and resort. It would be built on 45 acres inside the City of Airway Heights. The controversy over whether this is needed or…
Earlier on Wednesday we ran a map with an item on the proposed amendment request submitted on behalf of the family of John and Holly Sonneland. That earlier printed map is the existing land use for the 30 acres the Sonnelands own on Spokane's South…
Craig Gates, the CEO of Spokane Valley-based Key Tronic EMS, is the featured speaker for Thursday's Connect Northwest Executive Breakfast. Doors open at 7:30 a.m. at the Spokane Club Georgian Room. Founded in 1969 as an independent keyboard manufacturer, Key Tronic was the No. 1…
This is one of those tales that never quite answers all the questions it raises. The Sonneland family, a fixture for decades on Spokane's South Hill, has more than 30 acres that will eventually go through some development. The first part of the plan is…
Spokane businessman Mark Camp and two partners have purchased Overbluff Cellars, a South Hill craft winery. Camp is buying the winery with Darby and Jovanka McKee, both of Spokane, who have been partners on other ventures with him. He and the McKees own the Title…
Continuing the thread on the possible approval by the BIA of the Spokane Tribe's proposed casino in Airway Heights, here's a little online discussion covering the debate over how gambling helps or hurts city economies. It's on Huffington Post. It's not long, it's a bit…