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.…
Owners of local marijuana shops hope to cash in on the biggest retail sales day of the year, an event many of the stores are calling "Green Friday." Though state law dictates when the area's nine retail shops may open their doors (8 a.m.) and…
A Spokane tech company launched quietly two years ago has landed a $10,000 prize in a startup competition hosted by the Washington Technology Industry Association. Our full SR news story ran on Friday. Under-the-radar Kirkland Analytics, which has a team of five, won the top…
It's been a strange tale, the contentions between two big high-rollers over sprawling Lake Coeur d'Alene lake home. The battle seems to have finally ended, with an announcement last week that the two men, Denny Ryerson and Dana Martin, have agreed to a settlement. The…
Now that it's resolved the issue of moving forward with demolition of two downtown buildings, let's give a high-five to Larry H. Miller for some philanthropy. The Utah-based firm recently gave Spokane's Union Gospel Mission a $5,000 donation to help fund the charitable group's annual…
Earlier today readers found a story about Northwest Farm Credit Services paying $9 million for the big Ambassadors Group building on Flint Road near the airport. We noted we couldn't get comments from either company about how this affects them. Today, we did get a…
This item includes a corrected number, changing the number of private jobs added during October. Washington’s unemployment rate rose slightly this month to 6.0 percent, despite an estimated gain of 5,600 jobs in October, according to preliminary and seasonally adjusted labor statistics from the state…
Kirkland Analytics, a Spokane startup that helps commercial buildings manage water use, won the top prize of $10,000 at this week's WTIA Fall First Look Forum. The Washington Technology Industry Association is a not-for profit trade group that supports technology companies and professionals, trying to…
Ryan Arnold has been chosen as Greater Spokane Incorporated's first director of its recently launched Entrepreneurship Program. The job is focused on adding energy and guidance for area entrepreneurs and startups. Arnold has primarily focused his efforts in Kootenai County. He created a consulting firm…
Big news if you are into food. A second Trader Joe's comes to north Spokane. The graphic here shows the layout of Franklin Park Mall. TJ's goes into roughly half the Rite-Aid building there on North Division. Rite-Aid, we're told, will leave the mall portion…
Spokane company Dionysius Technology has 13 days left to reach the $85,000 mark in its Kickstarter Campaign, to raise money for the first production of its Sonic Decanter. The product removes oxygen and oxides from wine with the claim that the change in chemistry improves…
Ouch. A few days after the SR reported on Spokane Valley manufacturing firm ATC moving to Post Falls, we see a wire story announcing that furniture maker Kimball will close its Post Falls operation. The AP story: JASPER, Ind. — Office furniture maker Kimball International…
Let's not get too disappointed that Beardbrand didn't score a nice deal on Shark Tank last week. Truly, if the PR mill can be trusted, the mustache-beard movement is healthy and prospering. Beardbrand's fortunes are sure to spike as the world finds continuing need for…
Spokane startup Beardbrand got the short end of the strop last Friday when the company competed for venture money on ABC TV's show Shark Tank. Company co-founder and CEO Eric Bandholz said the sharks on the panel regarded the company as too niche and didn't…
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