You dont have to go to college to learn your way around a kitchen.Nikki Sutton knew that. Since she always had wanted to be a chef and already was a pretty good cook, she didnt figure to go on in school after she completed high school. just

D.A. Davidson & Co., a Great Falls, Mont.-based stock brokerage, has lowered its estimate for Avista Corp.s earnings for 2002, based on a recent court judgment against the Spokane energy company.In a report on Avista released last week, D.A.

Cantu Investments LLC, of Spokane, has bought just over an acre of vacant land along Mullan Road in the Spokane Valley and is considering developing of a new office building there.Commercial real estate broker Dan Cantu, who is part-owner of on

Vehrs Inc., a Spokane wholesale wine distributor, has leased 50,000 square feet of office and warehouse space in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park and plans to move its operations there from smaller quarters in the Valley. Vehrs President

A new building in the University of Idaho Research Park in Post Falls isnt even done yet, but nearly all of the laboratory space that will be in it is spoken for already.Also, all of the wet-lab space at the Spokane Intercollegiate Research a

Several new tenants plan to move to the University of Idaho Research Park, in Post Falls, after a new building there is completed this week.Doug McQueen, the research parks director, says the new tenants include a young Moscow, Idaho, biotech

A $1 million cleanup plan is being proposed for a contaminated site along the Spokane River near downtown where a gas plant and a tar company once operated.The Washington state Department of Ecology is proposing to enter into a consent decree A

Iron Bridge LLC, of Spokane, expects to start work next month on the first building in its 18-acre Iron Bridge Campus, an office park planned along the Spokane River east of Hamilton Street.Kent Hull, Iron Bridges managing partner, says the a

Fueled by attractive interest rates and the chance to fill niche and underserved housing markets, developers here recently have proposed or begun work on a healthy number of new apartment projects in the Spokane area. Real estate observers say

Itronix Corp., the Spokane maker of rugged computers, has leased a 2-year-old building in Liberty Lake that telecommunications equipment maker Telect Inc. owns and had occupied until scaling back its operations last year.Dave Bergman, Itronixs