As has been the case for a couple of years now, retailers here are again predicting sales growth for 2017.
However, some of industry representatives and observers interviewed are skeptical as to how long this period of gains will continue.
Grant Forsyth
Since opening the Wandering Table in May 2014, chef Adam Hegsted has built a small culinary empire, with five dining properties in Spokane and Coeur d' Alene.
Hegsted began to expand his brand in 2013, by forming the Eat Good Group LLC, which manages
Tiffeny Wycoff has been baking since she was 5 years old.
'I had the Easy Bake oven,†she remembers. 'Grandma would always save batter out of the cake. We'd put it in those little pans, pop it in (the oven), and make the little tarts and things.â
Following a busy Thanksgiving shopping weekend, a number of Spokane-area retailers say they are on track for stronger holiday sales this year than they had last year.
The National Retail Federation said in October that it expects sales in November and
Chicago-based General Growth Properties Inc. says it has expanded a digital parking tool to most of its regional shopping centers in the U.S., including the Spokane Valley Mall.
The tool uses heat maps enabled by GPS to identify available parking spaces
Boot Barn Holdings Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based chain of Western clothing and work-wear stores, has selected a Spokane Valley location for its first retail outlet in Washington state.
The recently opened Boot Barn store occupies 10,900 square feet of sp
Having secured the nationwide presence it once coveted, Spokane-based hotel chain operator Red Lion Hotels Corp. is looking to expand its footprint further, says company President and CEO Gregory T. Mount.
Specifically, Mount says, Red Lion's recently
Dan Duvall, who owns three convenience stores in Kootenai County, is constructing a fourth store in Hayden, where he's also planning to develop a multitenant retail building.
The 5,500-square-foot, $1.5 million convenience store, to be named Lancaster
A former Skippers restaurant near the Silver Lake Mall in Coeur d'Alene is being converted into a Dickey's Barbecue Pit restaurant.
The new restaurant's owner, Mark Engberson, is a Spokane-based franchisee for both Dickey's Barbecue Pit and Wing
Two retail tenants are lined up so far for ground-floor commercial space in the Matilda building that's nearing completion in the University District.
Also, many of the upscale apartments in the upper three stories are leased or reserved, say the leas