The Spokane Public Facilities District board plans to name a general contractor-construction manager for the Spokane Convention Center expansion project on June 17, says Kevin Twohig, the districts executive director.Representatives of eight
R.A. Pearson Co., the Spokane-based designer and manufacturer of packaging machinery, has secured a contract with Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. to make 80 new machines for the soft-drink bottler. The machines will help Coca-Cola efficiently its in
The Coeur dAlene School District is gearing up to start a $23 million, four-year capital-improvement planan ambitious roster of construction projects that includes replacing Hayden Lake Elementary and modernizing Lakes Middle School.Coeur a
Collecting postcards and stamps isnt for those short on time and attention span, Mike and Kathy McLean say. To find a desirable item, the owners of Vintage Postcards & Stamps say, a collector often must sift through hundreds of items to find
Spokane developer Rob Brewster Jr. has bought seven buildings and a parking lot in the east end of downtown Spokane and is planning a multimillion-dollar construction-and-renovation project there.The buildings include a total of about 84,000 of
The Spokane areas four major hospitals together spent about $12.3 million on charity care last year and wrote off about another $13.8 million in bad debt. Though that combined $26.1 million rose just 4 percent last year, some first-quarter a rate
Hoping to attract more people at the younger end of the 55-and-over spectrum, Touchmark Living Centers Inc., of Beaverton, Ore., has proposed a $20 million offsite expansion of independent-living housing for its big Waterford on South Hill company
The $17 million expansion project at Valley Hospital & Medical Center wont be fully completed until later this year, but the hospital already has launched a handful of new or upgraded services in its expanded and remodeled space.In one key to
The American Journal of Physiology, a Bethesda, Md.-based leading scientific journal, plans to publish a study conducted by a group of Heart Institute of Spokane researchers, who found that diets high in protein harm the kidneys, especially in that
Some of the effects of HIPAA, the nations sweeping new health-care privacy rules that took effect last week, are readily apparent at hospitals and doctors offices in the Inland Northwest. Take the practice of signing in for a doctors It to