I will never be in the flower business. Thats the vow Tom Lavagetto made to his father when he left high school, after spending a good deal of his childhood helping out in the family-owned greenhouse business here. Yet, Lavagetto, 56, a

Iron Bridge LLC, the Spokane company that plans to develop an office complex, valued at as much as $60 million, along the Spokane River east of Hamilton Street, expects to ask the city of Spokane to form a tax-increment financing district there to

Proponents of a spate of proposed Spokane-area sports facilities have huddled on the sidelines to strategize against their newest adversarya slow economy that has spiked their hopes of building two multimillion-dollar recreational complexes here

For the last several years, Sterling Savings Bank has reminded investors repeatedly that its transforming itself into a community bank and moving away from its roots as a savings and loan association.Now, the big Spokane institution is its the

Spokane home builders say the cost of buying some new homes within the city could increase by as much as $5,000 if the City Council adopts newly proposed water and sewer charges to pay for about $85 million in system expansions over the next 20 a a

Futures Unlimited Inc., of Columbus, Miss., plans to open Feb. 11 an outpatient rehabilitation clinic in Spokane that will specialize in providing therapy for patients with nervous-system dysfunctions. Ed Snapp, president and founder of the says

The last investors in a partnership that bought the six-story former McGinnis Independent Paper Co. building in downtown Spokane in the mid-1990s, then later dissolved, are seeking to fend off a foreclosure action brought by Washington Trust bank a

Robotic Process Systems Inc., of Liberty Lake, has filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, the second time in just under six years that the manufacturer of specialty equipment for the electronics industry has sought

The Inland Northwest Technology Education Center, or Intec, says it is close to announcing a new strategy for helping the Spokane area bolster high-tech employment by focusing more attention on what it calls energy technologies.Randy Long, a

Whitworth College says it hopes to start work this fall on a $6.5 million academic building on its North Spokane campus, its first new academic building since 1956.Whitworth has raised $3.2 million in donations so far for the new building, which