Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS) has applied for a tax-exempt $3.9 million revenue bond to buy a former auto dealership building downtown and to remodel and equip it for its downtown clinic.The nonprofit provider of medical and to
The Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute has applied for a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerces Economic Development Administration to build a 35,000-square-foot wet-lab facility at the southwest portion of
A growing awareness about the problems from household molds has the insurance industry tightening its coverage and environmental-services companies working to keep up with the growing demand for mold analysis and cleanup. A 2001 lawsuit, in a a
Hollywood Entertainment Corp., of Portland, Ore., and LOI Distributing Co., of Lakewood, Wash., plan to open a Hollywood Video store and a Dollar Store, respectively, at University City Shopping Center within the next three months, says Orville the
F.O. Berg Co., best known as a longtime Spokane sign and awning maker, has spun off a 4-year-old environmental division into a new company named Flexible Containment Products (FCP). Craig Dolsby, who owns F.O. Berg with Andy Barrett, is general
When Thomas, Dean & Hoskins Inc. entered the Spokane market in 1987, it employed one engineer and had even fewer clients here. Since then, growth has been steady at the Great Falls, Mont.-based engineering companys Spokane office, which now a
DuPree Inc., which does business as Window & Door Design, of Spokane, plans to restore the Hopson Building, at 1213 W. Railroad, into loft-style apartments, if it can arrange financing for the project.Meanwhile, DuPree is remodeling the which a
TVs Food Network might be responsible for planting words such as gnocchi and panettone into the American consciousness, but Cassanos Import Italian Foods brought those items to Spokane long before celebrity chefs such as Mario Batali and Emeril
An investor group plans to transform eight buildings in the west 1000 block of First Avenue downtown into a creative center and business incubator for arts-related entrepreneurs.The group, known as Odd Girls LLC, of Spokane, has bought the over
Anesthesiologists at Shriners Hospital for Children-Spokane are studying a pain-control technique developed there, that they say reduces discomfort and recovery time for children after foot surgery.The technique, developed by Dr. Roberto the of