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HopStop starts strong in Post Falls

Restaurants & Retail

February 13, 2020

The beer, hard cider, and wine brewing store, HopStop Home Brew & Wine Making Supplies, of Post Falls, is doing better than expected, according to one of the store's co-owners.

Revival Tea Co. set for downtown debut

Restaurants & Retail

February 13, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Drew Henry and his wife, Cerina Henry, estimate they're two to three years ahead of schedule. Nonetheless, the couple plans to open the doors 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday to the Revival Tea Co., located in 1,800 square feet of space in the basement at 41

Journal names 2020 class of Business Icons

Five Spokane business legends to be honored at March 26 ceremony

February 13, 2020

Linn Parish

The Journal of Business has selected five stalwarts of the Spokane business community as its 2020 class of Icons.

California group buys former Costco building on North Side

Separately, storage facility to open at site in March

February 13, 2020

Natasha Nellis

The recently redeveloped, former Costco Wholesale Corp. building on north Division Street has sold to a private investment group in California for $10.2 million.

Longtime employee buys R&R Custom photo lab

New owner intends to expand products

February 13, 2020

Virginia Thomas

R&R Custom Lab 2 Inc., which does business as R&R Custom Color Lab, has changed hands. Former owner Steve Riffle retired and sold the business to new owners Erin and Brent Cramer at the beginning of the year.

STARS shows integrated behavioral health facility

New location to offer 64 beds for crisis treatment, withdrawal management

February 13, 2020

Virginia Thomas

Spokane Treatment & Recovery Services plans to build a 64-bed, 42,000-square-foot integrated behavioral health treatment facility and medical clinic on East Nora Avenue, in Spokane Valley, and will hire up to 100 new employees to staff the facility.

Inland Northwest Composite shows fourth quarter increase

Hecla Mining posts strongest Q4 gains

February 13, 2020

Natasha Nellis

The composite value of the region's seven publicly traded companies rose 7.7% to $12.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2019, marking the fourth straight quarter in which the composite has risen, according to an analysis by Spokane-based financial

Around Town

Real Estate Transactions and Other Business Moves in the Inland Northwest

February 13, 2020

Staff Report

Spokane Valley real estate company M3K LLC has purchased the two-building, 18,000-square-foot warehouse and office complex at 118 N. Lee as an investment. John Powers and Brent Johnson, both of NAI Black, handled the transaction.

Designing the future requires cash-flow planning

Nonsavers may be stuck in perpetual debt crisis

February 13, 2020

Guest Commentary

Imagine building a house without blueprints or having any construction experience. The outcome is going to be unfortunate, if not downright dangerous. The same is true about financial planning. Unless we don't care what happens, we all ought to have a

Change in direction at Fairwinds follows trend

North Side retirement home adjusts to the times

February 13, 2020

Kevin Blocker

With its own liquor license and a full bar for residents and their family members in the evenings, the Fairwinds-Spokane retirement home is adjusting to the changing lifestyle of senior living.