Lithia Motors Inc., the Medford, Ore.-based automobile-dealership chain that owns Spokanes Camp Automotive Inc., plans to build a new building on Spokanes North Side and move its Mercedes-Benz dealership there from downtown. Mark DeBoer, of

Is there really a Heidi?Thats the question Heidi Acuff heard so often after she started a small pancake-mix company called Heidis Cottage Classics LLC five years ago.Posing for a photograph with a plateful of pancakes on her heada to

Some economic-development leaders and aviation-parts manufacturers here believe Spokane could become the Motor City of aerospace-parts production if it focuses on growing that already strong manufacturer niche.Moreover, theyre forming a a

Pring Corp., of Spokane Valley, has started work on a $2.8 million office building along Springfield Avenue, less than a block west of its intersection with Sullivan Road, in Spokane Valley.The 30,000-square-foot structure will be two stories a

Longtime Spokane restaurateur Cyrus Vaughn has developed a new Mexican restaurant concept called Jose Arribas and plans to open the first such eatery on Spokanes North Side. Vaughn says the restaurant company he formed to operate Jose Fresh

Food Services of America Inc., of Seattle, is undertaking an $8.8 million expansion and renovation at its big food-service distribution facility in northeast Spokane. Mike George, president of Food Services Spokane branch, says the company on

Three of Eastern Washingtons more prominent developersK. Duane Brelsford, of Pullman, and Dick Vandervert and Lowell McKee, of Spokaneplan to develop a $9 million, 14-screen movie-theater complex in the Wandermere shopping area north of three

Washington State University at Spokane plans this year to seek proposals from developers for renovation of the big, former Jensen-Byrd Co. warehouse building, on the south side of the Riverpoint Higher Education Park, says Brian Pitcher, chancellor

The master plan is finished, the sales pitch is polished, and the search is in full swing for private developers and public money to make the University District here a reality. Advocates of the U Districta mix of city of Spokane employees, U

Sacred Heart Medical Center, of Spokane, is in negotiations with Spokane Public Schools to buy the former Lewis & Clark High School play field two blocks north of the hospitals sprawling campus.Spokane Public Schools solicited offers to buy a