Judith Spitzer

Riverfront Park plan, financing are up for vote

Spokane Park Board expects plan to pass

June 5, 2014

Spokane Park Board members will meet next week to deliberate and vote on the $60 million master plan as it exists today and a finance package to renovate Riverfront Park that, if approved, will go to the Spokane City Council for approval before it can be

City, vendors look to resolve food-truck fracas

City says it's confident it can resolve mobile vendors' concerns

June 5, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Players in the Spokane food truck-regulations fracas were meeting this week to try to iron out some of the issues around a proposed ordinance governing how, when, and where mobile food truck vendors operate in and around the Spokane area. Ben Stuckart,

South Hill retailer to close its doors

50 Percent Off Card Shop owner cites drop in sales

May 22, 2014

Judith Spitzer

L.D.E. Inc. will close the 19-year-old 50 Percent Off Card Shop in mid-June, one of four such stores it operates in the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area, says Linda Powell, longtime owner of the stores, citing a decline in sales as the reason for the planned

WSU researcher here targets drowsy drivers

Van Dongen's detection technology earns patent

May 22, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Hans Van Dongen, a researcher at Washington State University Spokane, has received a patent for technology that is designed to detect when drivers are about to go to sleep behind the wheel and thus to help catch fatigue much earlier than video-based syste

Red Lion Hotels to adopt new reservation platform

Company set to make switch by summer's end

May 22, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Red Lion Hotels Corp., of Spokane, says it has entered into an agreement with Sceptre Hospitality Resources, of Denver, to use that company's WindsurferCRS system as its reservation platform, technology that it hopes will add more access to reservation,

Convention center-area hotel remodels, rebrands

18-year-old Travelodge to be Best Western Plus

May 22, 2014

Judith Spitzer

The Travelodge Hotel at the Spokane Convention Center downtown plans to change its affiliation and to begin operating as Downtown City Center Best Western Hotel, a Best Western Plus hotel, within the next 30 days, says Meredith Rainville, general manager.

Companies here pursue waste gasification project

Wheeler to build gasifier for a demonstration site

May 22, 2014

Judith Spitzer

MPM Technologies Inc., a 25-year-old Spokane-based company that develops waste-to-energy technology, says its Carbon Cycle Power subsidiary is in discussions with Spokane Valley machining and manufacturing company Wheeler Industries Inc. to build a patent

Striving to be a cut above

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May 22, 2014

Judith Spitzer

if it weren't for Expo '74, Doug Toone may have never opened what has become the Jewelry Design Center at 821 N. Division in Spokane. In those days, Toone was working for Jewelry By Michaels, a local wholesale jeweler, and Expo needed a jeweler to

Entering new dimension

Emerging 3-D printers useful in wide array of applications

May 22, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Once perceived as grist for sci-fi aficionados in a distant future, 3-D printing is turning up in unexpected places, in vastly different industries, and with surprising applications from the manufacture of prototypes, to the creation of synthetic body par

BC Engineers buys assets of NW Roof Consultants

Hayden company expands services, expects to grow

May 22, 2014

Judith Spitzer

BC Engineers Inc., a Hayden, Idaho, structural engineering company, has purchased the assets of Northwest Roof Consultants Inc., of Coeur d'Alene, and has created a roof consulting division, says Jason Erickson, vice president of BC Engineers. BC En