Tourism in the Spokane-Coeur dAlene area should flourish next year, thanks in part to some major sporting attractions that will draw visitors here and an expansion under way at Silverwood Theme Park.The long-awaited National Figure Skating to

Airway Pointe Seniors LP, of Hayden, Idaho, is developing a 51-unit, 10-building Airway Heights apartment complex for senior citizens.Whitewater Creek Inc., of Hayden, is the owner of and contractor on the project, called Airway Pointe, and has

Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreen Co., which claims to be the nations largest drugstore chain, says it plans to open its 10th Spokane-area outlet next fall, at the northwest corner of 29th Avenue and Grand Boulevard.In preparation for a building

The city of Spokane is readying for possible sale more than 24 acres of land on the North Side that its water and solid-waste departments currently occupy and that has attracted considerable interest from prospective buyers. Wal-Mart Stores the

Results of the Washington state Department of Transportations latest cost estimate to finish constructing the North Spokane Corridor wont be published until January, but DOT officials here say that report will project a more than $1 billion in

Kim Hotstart Manufacturing Co., the Spokane Valley maker of pre-heaters for diesel engines, projects sales of $25 million this year, nearly doubling its revenue from three years ago. Yet, the company expects that growth to slow in 2007.Terry be

Steve Gevurtz, a self-taught sculptor with studios in Spokane and Sandpoint, Idaho, says his yardstick for success wont be reached until his art becomes commercially viable.Whats commercially viable to a man who retired eight years ago as a

Sams Club, the members-only warehouse-store chain operated by retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc., plans to open a store just west of the nearly 6-year-old Costco Wholesale Corp. store on east Sprague Avenue.Sams West Inc., the real estate of

The Spokane Valley branch of Seattle-based Husky International Trucks Inc. is growing, thanks partly to a rapidly expanding truck-leasing department and a recent expansion into the sale of equipment, some of which it installs on the trucks it is a

Seattle-based truck dealer Western Peterbilt Inc. is moving its Spokane Valley operation to Liberty Lake, where its owner, Greenbriar Equity Group LLC, of New York City, recently purchased the former La Mesa RV Center property, just south of last