Spokane marketing and design firm Rainmaker Creative is opening an office in Silicon Valley. Company co-owner Billie Gaura said the firm’s Cupertino, California, office will open in September, starting with two employees. It will be an extension of the main office in Spokane, at 107…
Umpqua Bank, which recently merged with Sterling Financial, has started a Wildfire Relief Lending Program to help customers in parts of Washington and Oregon hit hard by wildfires. The new fund allows Umpqua customers who reside in area under voluntary or mandatory evacuation to receive…
Today's interesting Spokane business story is the plan by Red Lion Hotels to sell its Bellevue property. It sits conveniently near the Bellevue city core and right next to busy I-405. It will fetch top-dollar because of Seattle area property values. Down at the bottom…
Jack Heath, president and COO of Washington Trust Bank, said the bank has not decided what happens with the skybridge that connects the defunct hotel to the annex, which the bank recently bought for $2.6 million. Story on the sale was published on Tuesday this…
Yep, back in the first half of this decade, people had some grand plans for downtown Spokane. One was the proposed transformation of the Ridpath Annex (aka the Executive Court) into shiny condos. It was supposed to transform that area of town, until the recession…
Painting airliners is an expanding business at Spokane-based Associated Painters. The company, which has been at Spokane International Airport for four years, has just completed work on its second painting hangar. It's the left building in the photo above. The expansion will allow the Spokane…
I'm not much surprised to learn that Ed Schweitzer, founder and president of Schweitzer Engineering Labs in Pullman, doesn't like the idea of the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im). The issue of late has become a contest between some conservative lawmakers who see the program, which offers…
Greater Spokane Incorporated's Thursday (July 17) Executive Connect Breakfast features innovator Andrew DePaula, the guy behind the amazing little tech firm IntelliPaper, based in Edwall, Washington. The event is 7 a.m.-9 a.m., more or less, in the Spokane Club's downstairs meeting area. Admission is $30.…
Not all the construction activity is happening in the Valley or near the convention center downtown. Rockwood Retirement Communities, which runs Rockwood Tower and other area living centers, is at work on its big expansion on Spokane's South Hill. This is the work continuing at…
View Larger Map Sportsman’s Warehouse, the Utah-based national outdoor recreation and sporting goods chain, will open a north Spokane store next spring, moving into the vacant building at 6720 N. Division St. It’s leasing and renovating a 35,000-square-foot retail building near the corner of Lyons…
Edited 9:33 a.m. July 8 to reflect the correct name of the business. Rebooked, not Rebook. We wanted to call a little attention to Rebooked, a Spokane start-up that includes on its team Dan Gayle, a Spokesman-Review web developer. Dan took part during April's Startup…
The Spokesman-Review business team follows economic development in Spokane and the Inland Northwest.
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