The Davenport Hotel has filed suit against Spokane County, claiming its 2002 property-tax assessment on the historic downtown landmark is too high. The county last July assessed the value of the hotels main towernot including the Pennington

Since its founding, Columbia Paint & Coatings Inc., a Spokane-based manufacturer of architectural and industrial coatings, not once has seen its annual sales drop below the previous years figure.Not bad for a 56-year-old company.Now, is a

What with mortgage rates at historical lows and the Inland Northwest residential real estate market still percolating, one might assume that the window industry herewhich accounts for a sizable number of manufacturing, distribution, sales, and be

Youve heard the expression, Physician, heal thyself?In the case of Bruce Blackmer, its more like, Architect, redesign thyselfand thy profession.Blackmer, managing principal at Northwest Architectural Co. PS, one of Spokanes

The city of Spokane is proposing to revamp a busy East Spokane traffic route near the Freya Way and Freya Street bridges, which it also plans to upgrade as part of a series of projects along the Freya corridor.The combined cost of all three is

A 19-month-old nonprofit organic-foods cooperative named PEACH Safe Food has opened a store on the main floor of one of downtown Spokanes old apartment buildings. Passersby might never know that the store at 1029 W. First exists, though. Its

Washington states wine industry is replete with stories of established winemakers who helped others break into the business, or who acted as mentors to their competitors in other ways. As the industry has grown, however, that approach has to

A company doesnt get to be 119 years old without being able to change with the times. Spokane-based Coeur dAlenes Co. certainly has done that.Launched in 1884 as a supply house to miners in Idahos Silver Valley, the longtime steel and for

Uni-Select Northwest, of Auburn, Wash., has consolidated its two Parts Plus retail stores in Spokane into one location, at 125 S. Cowley, and has closed its warehouse here.The company vacated its leased retail spaces at 805 E. Francis and 126 a

Lincoln Container & Packaging Inc., of Spokane, has filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors, a move that one of the companys co-owners says was caused by an employees failure to pay Lincolns federal employment taxes. Unbeknownst