Despite indications that some new stores planned by Rite Aid Corp. elsewhere are being halted or delayed, two new North Spokane outlets for the Camp Hill, Pa.-based drug-store chain are expected to proceed, say Spokane developers who are working on

If Ted Pulver walks into your office with his leisurely smile and chummy handshake, someone has hired him to be there, and someone may have broken the law.It could be you. It could be a colleague. Whoever it is, Pulver is there to find out what

Rahco International Inc., the Spokane-based industrial manufacturer, has landed a $5 million contract with the U.S. Department of Energy to design and develop a system for containing potentially harmful waste at landfills.Rahco has started work

National Refractories & Minerals Corp., a Livermore, Calif.-based manufacturer of heat-resistant materials for industrial furnaces, has leased space in the Spokane Valley for a regional distribution center.The new distribution center is located

McLeodUSA Inc., a fast-growing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based telecommunications company, is taking steps to join the handful of companies competing here for local phone-service customers.McLeodUSA, which provides local and long-distance telephone to

The Sullivan Group LLC, a development company here headed by Spokane real estate executive Mark Pinch, has broken ground on an about $2 million retail center in the Spokane Valley.Pinch says the project, which is located at 506 N. Sullivan, is

Since buying Alloy Trailers Inc.s assets out of bankruptcy one year ago, two California businessmen have formed a new company here, called Reliance Trailer Co. LLC, that has cut Alloys production level, closed a manufacturing facility, and been

Spokane real estate developer Rob Brewster Jr. says he has decided against renewing an option to buy a site at Riverside Avenue and Howard Street downtown for a possible $35 million-to-$40 million skyscraper. Brewster says the project still is a

Heavy hitters in the business community here are taking steps to form a CEO-led regional business roundtable that would tackle issues they say are impeding economic growth in the Spokane-Coeur dAlene area.The formation of such a group has from

Itronix Corp.s entry into new, and potentially huge, aerospace markets is lifting off.The Spokane-based manufacturer of durable, wireless computers recently has started pilot programs with three major aerospace companies and one military and a