Two Spokane restaurateurs have merged their operations into a holding company that soon will oversee six restaurants here, and say the new concern expects to launch an aggressive acquisition and development strategy that could include buying hotels

Spokane-based RMA Inc., doing business as Spokane Airways, has sued Spokane International Airport (SIA) and the Spokane Airport Board for alleged violations of lease agreements, which it claims have destroyed its ability to operate as a fixed-base

Spokane developer Mick McDowell says construction of an 11-story, $60 million retail and office building that he and his wife, Shelley, are proposing at the east end of downtown could begin by this fall.The construction schedule will depend, on

The Washington Legislatures approval last month of a licensing measure that likely will discourage, if not prohibit, the opening of specialty hospitals in the state is drawing differing reactions from hospital executives and physicians measure, a

The Mirabeau Point area, once all but written off following the closure of Walk in the Wild Zoo in 1995, is now a growing center of private, civic, and recreational uses in the Spokane Valley, thanks to an influx of $70 million or more in Business

An Oklahoma businessman who has represented home-improvement giant Home Depot Inc. in development projects elsewhere is seeking a zone change for 16 acres of undeveloped land on Spokanes South Hill to accommodate a major retailer, city records is

Whitewater Creek Inc., of Hayden, Idaho is building a 120-unit rental housing complex in Post Falls, half of which will be for seniors, says the city of Post Falls building department.Construction has started on the complex, which is to 60 60

With the Washington Legislature winding down, retirement-industry experts were predicting last week that the industry would reap far better legislative gains than it had expected when the session began. Even those gains, though, would fall short of

Riverview Retirement Community, which has been operating here for nearly 50 years, says it has been taking needed steps to adapt to changing consumer demands and heightened competition from players hoping to capitalize on the graying U.S. those has

Despite reported big hikes in pay for first-year associates in law firms in markets such as Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York, attorneys here are seeing more moderate salary bumps, Gonzaga University School of Law Dean Earl Martin says.While a