Retail

Ponderosa Village fast-track work starts

Two of five planned buildings currently under construction

August 2, 2018

Construction is underway on the estimated $6 million Ponderosa Village retail center development that will surround the Barney's Harvest Foods grocery store, at 11205 E. Dishman-Mica Road in Spokane Valley. Project manager and landscape architect Clyde

Amazon to staff up by fall of 2019

Workers to come from unemployed, employed, throughout region

August 2, 2018

Samantha Peone

Before the 2019 holiday rush, Amazon.com Inc. hopes to have nearly all 1,500 positions filled at the massive fulfillment center under construction on the West Plains, says company spokesperson Lauren Lynch. Amazon will begin hiring a few weeks before the

Drivers Wanted

Trucker shortage puts brakes on interstate freight traffic

August 2, 2018

Virginia Thomas

Trucking industry experts say a scarcity of commercial truck drivers has begun to create sweeping consequences ranging from higher prices for goods to a slower economy due to widespread inability to deliver goods on time. Sheri Call, executive vice

Recruiting from the West Side

City wants professionals, managers to locate here

August 2, 2018

Mike McLean

The city of Spokane is preparing to launch its own job recruiting initiative aimed at attracting West Side companies to bring highly paid professional and management-level jobs here. The campaign, the first of its kind for the city, likely will start

Sams & Coffee opens in Spokane Valley

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July 19, 2018

LeAnn Bjerken

Jacob Miller has opened a new coffee and sandwich shop named Sams & Coffee, at 12709 E. Mirabeau Parkway, in Spokane Valley. Miller, who also owns the downtown sports bar Crave Eats.Drinks.Nightlife., says he was looking to start a slightly different kin

Fresh Soul opens in East Central neighborhood

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July 19, 2018

LeAnn Bjerken

The Spokane Eastside Reunion Association is set to debut Fresh Soul, its long-planned Southern-style restaurant and youth-employment program, with an opening date scheduled for today, July 19. SERA founder Michael C. Brown says the nonprofit purchased th

Spokane artist Ben Joyce plans new gallery

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July 19, 2018

LeAnn Bjerken

Spokane artist Ben Joyce says he plans this fall to open a production studio, an art gallery, and an event space to be named Ben Joyce Studios, in the former auto glass warehouse at 806 W. Third. 'It's always been a dream of mine to open up a gallery

Kilted Growler taps into Hayden

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July 19, 2018

LeAnn Bjerken

The Kilted Growler Tap House opened earlier this month at 8160 N. Cornerstone Drive, in Hayden. Owner Steve Welch, a longtime Coeur d'Alene home brewer, says he opened the tap house as a way of getting back into the beer business. 'My father used to

Early plans for Division Costco building surface

Warehouse tenants would be gym, trampoline park, others, drawings suggest

July 19, 2018

Samantha Peone

As Costco Wholesale Corp. gears up for the scheduled grand opening of its 167,000-square-foot warehouse on Newport Highway tomorrow, July 20, preliminary plans filed with the city of Spokane illuminate possible future uses for the 134,000-square-foot ware

Worthy Hotels acquires Hotel RL Spokane at the Park

Property renamed Centennial Hotel Spokane

July 17, 2018

Mike McLean

Worthy Hotels Inc., the Spokane-based parent company of four prominent downtown hotels, has bought the Hotel RL Spokane at the Park, near downtown Spokane. The hotel, located on 7 acres of land on the north bank of the Spokane River, at 303 W. North Ri