Fairchild Air Force Base has resolved to convert completely to electronic contracting this year and figures to save thousands of dollars annually by doing so.By the end of fiscal year 1999, which ends Sept. 30 for the U.S. Air Force, Fairchild a

Rite Aid Corp., a Camp Hill, Pa.-based drug-store chain, appears to be preparing to open its 14th store here near the northwest corner of Division Street and Francis Avenue on Spokanes North Side.County building records indicate that want to a

Spokane city and county recorded a dramatic $188 million combined increase in building permit activity in 1998, zooming past numbers posted during a mostly lethargic construction season the previous year.Together, they issued permits last year a

LeasX, a young leasing company based in Spokane, has leased a 70,000-square-foot building at 627 E. Sprague Ave. and plans to start a telemarketing subsidiary there that it says could employ more than 200 people within two years.That Angular a

Just east of downtown Spokane, nondescript Sprague Avenue and the nearby railroad tracks do little to inspire thoughts of romantic Florence, Italy.In the future, though, a grand bridge structure reminiscent of the Ponte Vecchio in with cafes a

A company headed by Spokane developer Rob Brewster Jr. has bought the former Twenty-Four Frames Cinema building in Cheney and plans to convert it into a restaurant and bar. The company, Selkirk Trading LLC, purchased the 93-year-old building is