Business partnership group CDA Loon LLC has purchased the former Caterpillar plant at 6811 E. Mission Ave. in Spokane Valley. The group paid $2.7 million for the 124,000-square-foot building sitting on 7.8 acres. The buyer is affiliated with Spokane Valley-based Berg Co. It plans to…
IF you didn't see this in Sunday's paper, you didn't look hard enough. It's worth repeating: Liberty Mutual Insurance is expanding its Liberty Lake operations. The Boston-based firm will add as many as 400 more workers to the Meadowwood Three building, now under construction south…
It's not cheap to go to law school. The GU law school website warns prospective students the "typical" year there will run $53,049. The law school's tuition comes to $1,212 per credit hour. All living costs (food and lodging) come to around $14,429 per year.…
Why do people think dead bugs in a plastic container, sitting near one's patio, presents a problem of etiquette or asthetics? It could just be the ick factor, the impact of seeing scores of dead bugs piled together, an image not helpful to happy socializing.…
Homes Show. This weekend and Oct. 4-6 will be the dates for this year's Fall Festival of Homes, presented by the Spokane Home Builders Association. The show sponsor is Pro-Build Spokane. This year's show features 32 new homes by 18 builders, constructed at assorted area…
Today's Business section story about the new traps being produced in Spokane by the Rescue company explained how the R&D team used technology to measure bugs' retinal response to different colors. The photo here, by the SR's Dan Pelle, shows Sterling's entomologists Qing-He Zhang and…
Smoking is bad, and no one really contests the "overbearing" role of government in policing where and when people can smoke their cigarettes. But along came e-cigarettes, and people began asking serious questions: are they dangerous to one's health to be near one? Can they…
Rumors keep floating that some major renovations are planned for NorthTown Mall. Well, we can't nail anything down. We did learn that the mall added a big ol' bright mural on the second level across from the Earthbound Trading Company. That's a short distance from…
Spokane Teachers Credit Union is opening a branch at The CrossRoads Coeur d’Alene. It’s the same retail center where WinCo Foods plans to open a grocery. While the retail area developed by Hughes Investments is expected to open in March, construction of the credit union…
New survey by Magid Associates on cord-cutters -- those who are quitting cable or satellite paid-TV service -- shows a slow but steady growth. See the related story at All Things D. But the bad news is: If you're addicted to sports (or have a…
Spokane County's jobless rate in August dropped to 7.2 percent, the lowest in 2013, the state Employment Security Department said. The number is not seasonally adjusted. In August a year ago, the jobless rate was 8.6 percent. The net job gain from 12 months ago,…
Sandpoint's Quest Aircraft Company handed over its 100th Kodiak aircraft in a recent ceremony at the company headquarters. The 100th aircraft went to Sunstate Aviation, based in Phoenix. Representatives of the company’s owner, Mike Watts, were on hand to accept delivery of their new single-prop…
Red Lion Hotels Corp. is adding a new franchise hotel in Walla Walla, helping the hospitality chain add a property in the heart of Eastern Washington's wine country. The formal switch to the Red Lion system is expected to occur later this year following a…
Red Lion Hotels Corp. is adding a new franchise hotel in Walla Walla, helping the hospitality chain add a property in the heart of Eastern Washington's wine country. The formal switch to the Red Lion system is expected to occur later this year following a…
If you've wanted to ask David Sabey some questions, you'll get your chance next week. The longtime Seattle businessman and pres of Sabey Corp. will deliver the Gonzaga University School of Business Administrations' annual Pigott Entrepreneurship lecture at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 26. The Thursday event…
Long live Geno's. After a brief stint as an upscale eatery, a fire of mysteriou9s origins this summer closed the north Spokane eatery. The four guys who run several other food establishments will open the new Geno's within a month, and we wish them good…
Longtime banking executive Cajer Neely has been named president and director of RiverBank, a Spokane commercial bank. Its website is RiverBankOnline.com. Neely has worked in area financial institutions for more than 30 years, most recently with Wells Fargo. He graduated from the University of Wyoming…
The day after Sterling Financial announced it's being taken over by Portland-based Umpqua Bank, here's one graphic that raises questions about who knew about the merger early-on. The story of the announcement ran in the Sept. 12 Spokesman Review and online. The graphic here shows…
It's roughly a week before MacKenzie River Pizza opens its downtown food location in the Lincoln Plaza Building, at Lincoln and Riverside. It's taking the spot last used by Ciao Mambo. Both brands are part of the Glacier Restaurant Group based in Whitefish, Mont. Workers…
Office Hours pulled the image that ran with a blog entry yesterday about the proposed Convention Center hotel. This was done at the request of Matt Jensen, who works for the Davenport Collection, the corporate entity that runs the Davenport buildings, the Lusso and would…
Ahmad and Fery Haghighi, owners of Fery’s Catering, are building a commercial office building at 5608 S. Regal St. They plan on tenants moving in by the end of the year. Estimated to cost $1.5 million, the 7,200-square-foot building will cater to retail or office…
We pulled the architectural redering that was posted here yesterday, showing one possible view of the proposed downtown Convention Center hotel. The Worthy company said, Hey, that's not the current and updated rendering. They asked us to pull it and we agreed, after considering briefly…
More stuff on the expansion of commercial properties at Kendall Yards, the big development just west of downtown Spokane. Three new buildings are on the drawing boards; two are restaurants (whose names and owners have not been announced); a third is the Highline Lofts. It…
We're expecting a news announcement this month about a possible expansion of the Meadowwod Technology Campus, in Liberty Lake. The rumor is that a large financial services firm is likely to lease a new building, Meadowwood Three, south of the existing large original (former Agilent)…
Who's going to pay for the celebatory champagne toast, when Gov. Jay Inslee and a host of wine industry folks meet in the Tri-Cities to fomally break ground on a new wine science center?. The new center -- officially the Wine Science Center at WSU…
The Spokesman-Review business team follows economic development in Spokane and the Inland Northwest.
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