Latest News

Getting a taste for eco-luxury

Spokane developer manages project in Nicaragua; client seeks Idaho sites for resort

April 8, 2010

When Spokane contractor Doric Creager became the project manager for what's being called an eco-luxury destination resort on the coast of Nicaragua three years ago, he had in mind more than just one project that would serve the eco-tourism With the

Small Business Watch: April 8, 2010

April 8, 2010

Empire Cycle adds Aprilia, Moto Guzzi motorcycle lines The Spokane area's lone dealer for British-made Triumph motorcycles, Empire Cycle & Powersports LLC, at 7807 E. Sprague, says it has added the Italian-built Aprilia and Moto Guzzi

Custom cable maker's saga here ends in bankruptcy

Final liquidation decree entered for Cables Inc.; owners' case still pending

April 8, 2010

Kim Crompton

Cables Inc., a company here that made custom cable assemblies that go into electronics and whose customers had included some prominent Spokane technology companies, has ceased operating, and its bankruptcy case has been closed.The contract for

Little Caesars franchisee takes over Papa John's site

Will hire 10 to 15 people for South Hill location, eyes opening three more

April 8, 2010

Jeanne Gustafson

The owner of several Little Caesars pizza stores here says he will open a Little Caesars at the former location of a Papa John's pizza store on Spokane's South Hill and hopes to open as many as three more Spokane-area locations over the next year.

Providence group to unite three North Side practices

It plans to add doctors, pharmacist for 'one-stop shop' near Holy Family

April 8, 2010

Mike McLean

Providence Physician Services Co., which is part of the Spokane-based Providence Health Care network, says it has leased the top floor of the Central Medical Office Building, north of Providence Holy Family Hospital, and plans to move three of its

Avista Corp. remodels relocated call center at old credit union site

April 8, 2010

Jeanne Gustafson

Avista Corp. is expanding its call center space and, once a remodeling project there is completed, will occupy all of a building in Spokane Valley that it previously shared with a Horizon Credit Union branch.Avista bought the building, located a

Project near Audubon Park scaled back, to open in June

Northwest Boulevard pizzeria, pub on track, but retail center tabled

April 8, 2010

Jeanne Gustafson

A family partnership that includes the codeveloper of Northtown Square and the owners of the Downriver Grill is working on a scaled-back version of their original plan for a restaurant and retail center on Northwest Boulevard, near Audubon Park, in

Gold Reserve adjusts to life without Venezuelan mine

Company seeks arbitration from international tribunal after Brisas project seized

April 8, 2010

Paul Read and Paul Read

Gold Reserve Inc., a Spokane-based mining exploration company that has spent nearly $300 million on a mining project in Venezuela, says now that the Venezuelan government has seized its property there, its focus will be on fighting to get whatever

Reptile retailer reaps returns

April 8, 2010

Mike McLean

Wendy Childs spends her days surrounded by hundreds of snakes and frogs and even a few big spiders, and she enjoys the company.Childs owns and operates Reptile Addictions, which she opened in 2008 and plans to move into bigger quarters next are a

Another Oil Can Henry's to open, more eyed

Vandervert erecting store at center on Indian Trail for Portland-based chain

April 8, 2010

Kim Frlan

OCH International Inc., the Portland-based operator of the Oil Can Henry's chain of auto lube outlets, plans to open a store in the Sundance Plaza shopping center in northwest Spokane. That will be its fourth in the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area, and