A real estate investment group headed by Spokane businessman Joe Harwood recently bought three buildings downtown that either are being remodeled or will be renovated soon.The transactions involve the former House of Charity building, on the of

Hollister-Stier Laboratories LLC, the Spokane-based allergy-products maker, has signed two agreements that result from the companys ongoing efforts to diversify its activities, says Bill Bauernschmidt, Hollister-Stiers vice president of part of

Northwest TeleHealth, a Spokane-based telemedicine network, will receive a $2.7 million grant from Qwest Communications International Inc. to expand the network further throughout Eastern Washington.Telemedicine enables doctors in one community

Fairchild Air Force Base is proposing to build a $10 million to $15 million central deployment center on base, and is asking that funding for that project be included in the federal governments fiscal 2002 budget.Lee Paul, chief engineer at a

At the base of Green Mountain, tucked among pine trees between Hauser and Newman lakes northeast of Spokane, lies Green Mountain Inc.s bottling plant.At that about 1,100-square-foot plant, which is located on the homestead of the couple that a

Americans, we often hear, are not getting less fat, but theyre certainly getting less for fat than they used to, and thats creating problems for restaurateurs here.The two companies that pick up and recycle restaurant grease in the Inland a

Spokane and Coeur dAlene are almost certainly destined to become a combined metropolitan statistical area in the eyes of everyone from the federal government to national retailers, says a report published in August by the U.S. Census would be a a

A limited partnership formed by Spokanes Wells & Co. and Avista Development Inc., also of Spokane, plans to renovate the former Rodeway Inn City Center into a high-tech office building that would be part of whats becoming known as the Terabyte

Expansion plans announced three years ago are proceeding at the Chimney Rock Industrial Park, which is located near the intersection of Freya and Trent.Two buildings, one which will include about 28,300 square feet of floor space and another of

Clear Channel Communications Inc., a big San Antonio, Texas-based, diversified-media company that recently acquired six Spokane radio stations as part of a huge transaction, has bought a 16,500-square-foot building at 808 E. Sprague and plans to of