For most of Donald Schellings career, the only thing he knew about dry cleaning was that he used such shops to clean suits he wore to his job as a sales manager at Washington Trust Bank.After his position with the bank was eliminated in the a

Levernier Construction Inc., of Spokane, has started work on a $10.3 million gymnasium and fitness center at Ferris High School, on Spokanes South Hill, after being awarded the slightly scaled-back project by Spokane Public Schools late last the

Spokane-area entrepreneur Bernard Daines is considering whether to expand substantially the size of a planned addition to the Liberty Lake Internet Portal building, in Liberty Lake. In June, Daines disclosed plans to build a two-story, addition

A $34.6 million nursing college building planned at the Riverpoint Higher Education Park is back on the drawing boards for redesign after construction cost estimates came in $4 million over budget.Consequently, the construction schedule for the

Columbia Basin Federal Credit Union, a Moses Lake, Wash.-based institution with three offices, plans to merge into Horizon Credit Union, of Spokane Valley.Brian Grytdal, Horizons vice president of marketing, says the boards of both credit the

A Spokane company plans to buy a 22.5-acre parcel used as an exotic animal farm in northeast Spokane and has proposed developing a 276-unit apartment complex there. The company, Consortium Investments LLC, is seeking preliminary-plat approval a

Hotel-occupancy rates in the Spokane area are holding up this year at about the same level as last year, despite the down year projected for the industry, and have allowed some hoteliers to raise room rates. Because of that, revenue per room, a

Spokane Baptist Association Homes CEO Glen Pierce realized four years ago that if the organizations 96-unit Holman Gardens Retirement Community, in Spokane Valley, wanted to survive, it would need to undergo a financial restructuring.To make

Freedom RV Inc., a recreational-vehicle dealership in Spokane Valley, has bought a building at 7807 E. Sprague that it had leased for about a year.Barry Danzig, who co-owns Freedom RV with his father, Murray Danzig, says the company bought the

Spokane Junior Academy, a private school operated by Seventh-day Adventist churches for children in kindergarten through 10th grade, has started site development for its long-envisioned new school building in northwest Spokane.Art Lenz, for the