Longtime Pro Heating & Air Conditioning Inc. employee Jon Vanos has bought the assets of the 25-year-old Spokane company for an undisclosed sum and renamed it Pro Mechanical Services Inc. The commercial heating, air conditioning, and ventilation
City and county consolidations, although a popular topic when local governments are under extreme fiscal pressure, haven't been shown nationally to produce the savings that advocates might expect.That's the conclusion of one of two new studies a
$20.3 million project will help airport meet standards
February 10, 2011
Acme Concrete Paving Inc., of Spokane, is the apparent low bidder for a $20.3 million project to reconstruct part of Runway 21 at the Spokane International Airport so it meets current international visibility standards.The project involves the a
Video games increasingly are becoming a means of social interaction for almost every age group, and a fairly new franchise here has captured that idea through its offering of a mobile gaming unit for all types of group events.GameTruck a of with
A Spokane nonprofit concern plans to develop a $5 million, four-story work-force housing project at 1420 E. Sprague that would include 35 apartment units and ground-floor retail space.The nonprofit, Inland Empire Residential Resources, recently
In coming weeks, a group of sustainability-minded Spokane-area business owners plan to launch a local chapter of a quickly growing national organization called Business Alliance For Local Living Economies, or BALLE. About 40 businesses have a
Cascade Windows, a longtime Spokane Valley manufacturer of vinyl windows, says it has merged with a Portland-area window maker, boosting its regional presence and enlarging its total work force to about 450 workers.Randy Emerson, Cascade and the
A prominent West Plains business owner is organizing opposition to a $130-million development proposed just west of Airway Heights by the Spokane Tribe of Indians. Irv Zakheim, president and CEO of dinnerware designer and manufacturer Zak Inc.,
The Spokane County Sheriff's Office says it has made draft master plan updates that would trim 592 inmate beds and $66 million off previous size and cost estimates for a detention-services project designed to meet its needs over the next 25 Office
Some Spokane-area printers are changing their business models and expanding the services they offer as part of an effort to offset a general downturn in the industry over the past two years due to the recession and a trend toward digital some are a