Since the Journal last visited with him nearly a decade ago, Berry Fowler, who perhaps is best known as the founder of the Sylvan Learning Centers franchise operation he sold in 1985, remains active with his executive coaching business school and a franchise consultancy.

Alexander Scott has been promoted by Mayor Lisa Brown to serve as city administrator for Spokane. 

Vandervert Hospitality Inc. has completed two west Spokane hotel renovation projects at the Hampton by Hilton Spokane Airport and Hilton Garden Inn Spokane Airport and has plans for improvement projects for two additional properties in the company's portfolio.

Spokane’s architectural styles and eras, from the grandeur of Craftsman homes to modern infill projects, capture unique responses to the pressures and resources of the times, observes Realtor Branden Griffith.

A pair of Spokane-area buildings were among 10 publicly funded facilities across Washington state to win 2024 Civic Design Awards.

As Spokane grows, builders are increasingly turning to Budinger & Associates to analyze and prepare the earth for construction. 

While the accounting industry faces an employee-pipeline crisis, Kemper Rojas, managing partner at Fruci & Associates PS, says the Spokane-based accounting firm has been engaging strategies focused on talent retention and recruitment. 

U.S. community bank sales to credit unions have reached a record high of 19 acquisitions announced nationwide from Jan. 1 to Oct. 25, but the trend is of concern to some bankers who are calling on more federal oversight of the transactions.