Spokane family-practice physician Dr. Bradley F. Bale, who has been an outspoken advocate of attacking heart disease preemptively, has started a heart-attack prevention clinic at his office here.Bale began seeing patients earlier this month

Spokane-area homes arent the only residential properties here that are selling like hotcakes these days. Commercial real estate agents who specialize in multifamily properties say apartment complexes are selling more briskly than they have in

After almost five years of planning, a $2.8 million indoor basketball complex in the Spokane Valley is moving forward. Kert Carlson, the projects originator and managing partner of the Carlson & Associates LLC investment group, says that site

Guess what segment of the Spokane-area home market is growing the fastest? The $100,000-to-$124,999 range? Thats the largest, but not the fastest growing. The $150,000-to-$199,999 range? Its growing briskly, but its not the fastest in

The business plan for Corner Booth Productions Inc. was developed ingo figurea corner booth at a North Side diner. A few years back, Frank Swoboda and Mark Forman met regularly at an out-of-the-way table at Fergusons Caf, in the Garland

A company owned by prominent Spokane developers Dick Vandervert and Lowell McKee is building a retail center on Spokanes South Hill to be occupied by a Washington Mutual Bank branch, a Starbucks Corp. coffee shop, and other tenants.The MV is

These are rough-and-tumble days for Spokane-based rugged computer manufacturer Itronix Corp.After strong growth in fiscal 2002, the companys sales tailed off in fiscal year 2003, which ended March 31. In early April, the company cut 10 of its

A group of northeast Spokane landowners is eyeing development of a mixed-use residential project with a total estimated value of roughly $50 million.As currently envisioned, the development would include a 200-unit retirement complex, 200 and a

The relatively new profession of certified professional guardian has emerged as a growing field of work here and statewide, as demand increases for guardians who manage the affairs of those who cant completely tend to things themselves.The in

Pitney Bowes Inc.s Spokane customer-contact center knows its business: Answer phone calls from customers across the nation and tell them how to fix Pitney Bowes office products. The Stamford, Conn.-based company didnt, however, know the way