Drive-in dining and roller skating carhops might become more common sights in the Spokane area soon.A Spokane franchisee of Sonic Drive-In, a 3,000-restaurant chain thats popular in the South and Midwest, plans to develop its first outlet and

Washington State University will accept proposals later this month from private developers interested in doing a mixed-use development at the old Jensen-Byrd building and neighboring property on the south side of the Riverpoint Higher Education man

Paul Fish, president of Spokane-based recreational-equipment retailer Mountain Gear Inc., has bought a 160,000-square-foot complex in Spokane Valley and plans to move the companys offices and warehouse operations there next year. Mountain in

Lydig Construction Inc., of Spokane, has landed a $46 million project to build a new school in Everett, Wash., for the Lake Stevens School District.Joe Williams, a project manager here for Lydig, says work on the project is expected to start be

Mailstream USA Inc. was a direct-mail marketing company that dabbled in the fulfillment business until one day four years ago when a Spokane man let his fingers do the walking. At that time, says company CEO Allan McEachern, Mailstream was the

The former American Sign & Indicator Corp. building complex in Spokane Valley attracted a winning bid of $2.3 million at a public auction earlier this month, says Jim MacDonnell, executive managing director of Sheldon Good & Co., the Chicago-based

Since home sales started to surge in Spokane and Kootenai counties a few years ago, real estate professionals have pointed to historically low mortgage rates as one of the key reasons for the increased activity. With mortgage rates rising over

Boise businessman Chadd Harbaugh, founder and president of a law-enforcement and military training company there, has bought a 550-acre dude ranch near Harrison, Idaho, and plans to move the companys training facility there. The ranch, which

As Media Joe founder and CEO Joe Melton tells it, there was a time when information-technology professionals simply had to know computers and computer networks.Then came voice-over-Internet-protocol phone networks, and IT guys had to become has

Charitably-inclined taxpayers stand to benefit from a hurricane-relief bill passed late this summer, but the federal government is in less of a giving mood these days when it comes to other types of tax relief than it has been the past few years. &