Local entrepreneur and 20-year U.S. Marine Corps and Navy veteran Zach Simms is opening an exterior design and construction management company in downtown Spokane. Transblue LLC is headquartered in the greater Seattle area and began franchising in 2019.

San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Co. has begun planning a new bank branch inside the Lincoln Heights Shopping Center, on Spokane's South Hill, says Juan Lopez, Wells Fargo's senior communications consultant. The branch will be located at

The city of Spokane has issued a building permit for remodel work valued at $750,000 for a new auto body shop in a building at 6430 N. Lidgerwood, east of the Lowes Cos. home improvement store on Spokane's North Side. Caliber Collision Centers

The old Jim's Home Brew Supply building at 2619 N. Division will be turned into a third location for Airway Heights-based auto dealership Cal Cars, pre-development conference application documents filed with the city of Spokane show. Representatives

Poland and America are like two trains passing each other in opposite directions. That is becoming increasingly clear. The key question looking forward: 'Will government or consumers drive our economy?” Poland broke the shackles of Soviet communist

Builders are adding housing in the Spokane market at a pace that keeps up with Spokane's growing population currently, but not enough to make up for the deficit in inventory created in the first half of the 2010s. Local elected officials should be

Zeeks Pizza Inc., a Seattle-based franchise pizza restaurant chain, is opening a restaurant in the former Geno's Fabulous Pizza & Italian Dinners building, at 1414 N. Hamilton, near Gonzaga University. It's the first Zeeks location east of the Cascade

Kim Plese, the owner of Plese Printing & Marketing, of Spokane, has purchased an acre of vacant land next to the commercial printing company's current location and plans to construct a building there for a new vehicle wrap business, called Plese Wrap