The Spokane Area Chamber of Commerce, which bought the former West One Plaza building downtown and is converting it into a Spokane Regional Business Center, now is seeking $1.7 million in donations to build a high-tech marketing and conference on a

Key Tronic Corp., the Spokane maker of keyboards and other computer-input devices, has steered into the promising waters of an industry segment called original design and manufacturing (ODM), and is preparing to churn up a wake.Although the the

In the last year, Accra-Fab Inc., a Spokane-based precision sheet metal fabricator, has had strong success on its home turf, but struggled at its West Side branches.Here, the company bloomed following its move last year into a brand-new, in Lake

It was great while it lasted.That might be the refrain of Spokane employers, who this year are being hit with health-care plan rate hikes averaging 8 percent to 12 percent after several years of shrinking, stable, or modestly rising of a couple

Three additional restaurants and seven new retailers have agreed to open outlets at the Spokane Valley Mall within the next seven months, and another four potential tenants are negotiating to sign leases, says Wendy LePiane, marketing director for

Rosauers Supermarkets Inc., of Spokane, plans to close its grocery store at 8517 E. Trent by the end of March, says Larry Geller, Rosauers president.The store has been ravaged by competition over the last several years, says Geller.The

Coldwater Creek Inc., the Sandpoint, Idaho-based catalog retailer, plans to open a new $6 million facility in Coeur dAlenewhich it says will be completed by next falland move its Coeur dAlene call center there from leased quarters in a

Real estate investor and developer Rob Brewster Jr. says he has bought the long-vacant Holley Mason Building in downtown Spokane and plans to rehabilitate the historic six-story structure.Brewster, who grew up in Spokane but now lives mostly in

A Spokane company called Sierra Development LLC, which is headed by prominent local developer Dick Vandervert, has just begun work on one retail development in Millwood and plans to start work on two othersone each in Cheney and Liberty spring. a

Internet service providersthe companies that connect Internet users to the information superhighwaysay theyre now maneuvering through heavier competitive traffic here and anticipate some aggressive lane changes in the road ahead.Not only A