A hardware retailer from Phoenix plans this summer to open an Ace Hardware store in a former Albertsons Inc. supermarket space on Spokanes South Hill.The retailer, The Jant Group Inc., of Phoenix, has subleased Albertsons former store in a

On Spokanes North Side, office-building owners are taking aggressive steps to fill an increasing amount of vacant spacewith some offering six months of free rent. In Liberty Lake, a spate of new office space came available as the tech sector an

U.S. Cap Systems Corp., a Spokane maker of caps for plastic jugs and enhancements for plastic-jug making systems, is on course to triple its sales this year and expects soon to be producing more than 1 billion caps annually.The company currently

Spokane developer Mick McDowell has bought the site of the former Thadeus T. Thudpuckers restaurant on downtown Spokanes east end and plans to build a five-story, 60,000-square-foot Class A office building there.The 1.25-acre site is located

K&N Electric Motors Inc., a 56-year-old Spokane motor distributor and industrial-equipment service shop, has bought the assets of the former Spokane operation of Cleveland-based Grand Eagle Inc. and is moving into that companys facility.Grand

Work is scheduled to start this week on two office-and-warehouse buildings, worth a combined about $5.3 million, in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, in the Spokane Valley.Crown West Realty LLC, the 600-acre parks Spokane-based owner and

Sundance Plaza LLC, of Spokane, has inked Albertsons Inc. as the supermarket anchor for the planned Sundance Plaza Shopping Center on Spokanes North Side, and after a years delay, is moving forward with the projects $5.2 million first site

Earlier this year, WestCoast Hospitality Corp. CEO Donald Barbieri described the conditions facing the travel business as perhaps the most difficult economic environment in the recent history of the hospitality industry.Following the attacks

ICT Group Inc., a suburban Philadelphia-based call-center operator, is expanding its Spokane Valley call center, which is located at the University City Shopping Center.Jackie Amendolari, ICTs Philadelphia-based spokeswoman, declines to say or

Look at Itron Inc. and youll see a maker of automated meter-reading systems for utilities worldwide that in the last two years has boosted its sales, profits, and work force at a time when many other high-technology companies have company CEO at