Whitworth University says it plans to start work next year on a $37 million science center that will be the first phase of a planned $53 million overhaul of its science facilities.The three-story, 63,000-square-foot science center will be the

On the heels of a merger that substantially extended its firms global reach, the Spokane office of the multinational law firm K&L Gates says its been growing strongly in recent years, and expects to continue making steady gains in the Spokane a

Larry Stanley is 79 years old, retired, and a self-proclaimed workaholic. Hes also not alone.Retired once-prominent executives here might not punch the clock anymore, but rather than spend their sunset years perfecting their golf swings,

A Spokane Valley real estate and development company plans to start work soon on a $4.5 million commercial project on the former site of a Tidymans supermarket in the Five Mile shopping district.The company, Brumback Consulting Inc., plans to

With the paint barely dry on a recent $42 million expansion of its facility here, Hollister-Stier Laboratories LLC has started work on another multimillion-dollar project thats expected to boost its production capability further and heat up its a

Spokanes hotel industry, following a year in which room-tax revenues rose at their highest rate in 16 years, is expected to see more modest growth this year, and pick up steam again in 2009, experts here say.Room-tax revenues in Spokane rose

PE Systems LLC, a Spokane company that helps merchants reduce the credit-card fees they pay, says its planning to move soon to accommodate a sharp growth in its work force. The young company says it also expects it will nearly double its revenues

Medford, Ore.-based Lithia Motors Inc. says it has started work on a new building in Liberty Lake for its Mercedes-Benz dealership here.The dealership chain, which owns Spokanes Camp Automotive Inc., is building the roughly 45,000-square-foot

Spokane-based Inland Northwest Health Services is participating in a new project for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that will make the Inland Northwest one of the first sites in the U.S. to use a large-scale health surveillance as a

Lee & Hayes PLLC, a fast-growing law firm here that specializes in intellectual property, says it has outgrown its space in the Paulsen Center downtown and plans to move to the nearby Bank of America Financial Center, where it expects to continue a