The mother-daughter team that owns Exit Real Estate Gregg Jones & Associates has bought an old funeral home building near downtown Spokane and plans to remodel the structure into a new home for the longtime real estate brokerage.The team, Gregg

Zak Designs Inc. has set the table for a greater presence in Europe.The Airway Heights-based dinnerware designer and manufacturer opened Zak Europe this month, with a main office just outside of Zurich, Switzerland, and a sales office in The an

Bankruptcy filings in Eastern Washington fell in 2004 to the lowest level since the economy began to sour in 2000, ending a four-year streak of record-setting increases.While bankruptcy activity here is still steady and remains in what would be

Hollister-Stier Laboratories LLC, the Spokane pharmaceutical maker, is taking an early first step toward a major manufacturing expansion at its northeast Spokane plant.Tony Bonanzino, the companys president and CEO, says Hollister-Stier plans

Two projects with up to $20 million in work are scheduled to get under way early this year in the northern half of the planned North Spokane Corridor, known informally as the north-south freeway.One project involves removing earth and grading a

Wheatland Bank, of Spokane, plans to move its downtown branch to a more prominent location in the same building and also plans to move its corporate headquarters there formally.Susan Horton, Wheatlands chairwoman, president, and CEO, says the

An expressway to the information superhighway might come to Spokane within a year.An Eastern Washington consortium wants to light up an extremely high-speed, large-bandwidth fiber-optic network between Spokane and Seattle and establish a hub of

A crush of apartment construction is under way in the Spokane area, following relatively little activity in that building sector in recent years. Spokane County and the city of Spokane issued building permits for $93.1 million in multifamily up

Foothills Auto Group, of Spokane, is converting the east end of its Foothills Lincoln-Mercury Mazda dealership building into a new Mazda showroom.Chris Marr, vice president of Foothills Auto, says work started last month at the North Side on to

WAM Enterprises Inc., of Spokane, has agreed to buy the Deer Park Fairgrounds and is envisioning a mixed-use development at the 12-acre site.Meanwhile, the city of Deer Park is working with the Deer Park Fair Board to relocate the fairgrounds,