Michaels Stores Inc., a big Dallas-based retailer of arts, crafts, and home-decor items, plans to open a second Spokane-area store, this one in the former Best Products Co. building on North Division.Michaels has leased about 25,300 square feet
Extended Stay America Inc., a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company that operates more than 190 extended-stay hotels nationwide, says it plans to build a 115-unit hotel in the Spokane Valley.Mariesa Capelli, a spokeswoman in Fort Lauderdale for of
A small consulting firm here called Pacific Energy Research Associates Inc. has been awarded two contracts to conduct energy-related planning and feasibility studies in eastern Russia that could have major implications.Under one of the Pacific a
Last year, Spokane-based RAHCO International went for months without finding a single qualified engineering candidate to hire. It finally recruited one from South Africa. Spokane headhunter Jeannine Marx, who typically has sought seasoned for is
Broadway Group, a Spokane-based company that owns a chain of truck stops and smaller fuel stop-convenience store outlets as well as other properties, is getting ready to expand again.It expects shortly to buy a truck stop, casino, motel, and at
Louisiana-Pacific Corp.s 33-acre former mill site in Post Falls failed to sell at auction recently, and the property remains for sale, says Tim Reinertsen, senior vice president of Realty Marketing/Northwest, of Portland, which held the auction a
Oak Harbor Freight Lines Inc., an Auburn, Wash.-based trucking company that has operated a terminal here but used the services of another company to make its Spokane-Coeur dAlene area deliveries, now has decided to handle those deliveries of that
Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. plans to go ahead with a $10 million project at its Mead Works aluminum smelter that it put on hold indefinitely a year ago.Susan Ashe, Kaisers spokeswoman here, says the project includes rebuilding an older at
Sacred Heart Medical Center and Holy Family Hospital, both under the umbrella of Spokane-based Providence Services, are seeking state permission to open a 25-bed transitional-care unit at Holy Family.Holy Family is proposing to spend about $1.2
For the second time this year, the owner of the big Spokane Business & Industrial Park has announced plans for more development, this time to the north of the developed part of the park.The owner, Spokane-based Crown West Realty LLC, says it to