Lease rates for premium downtown office space are rising to new heights here, as increased demand for floor spaceand a dearth of new inventory in the citys corecinch that already tight market segment further.Commercial real estate here say

Rogue Wave Inc., a young software-design and multimedia marketing company here, has inked a product licensing agreement with Tokyo-based World Bridge Co. Ltd. thats projected to bring the Spokane company between $2 million and $3 million in this

Reliance Trailer Co. LLC, a Spokane-based manufacturer of over-the-road trailers, has bought the assets of one of its competitors, Lynnwood, Wash.-based Sturdy Weld Equipment & Design Inc.Greg Kreshel, general manager of Reliance Trailer, says a

Northwest Industrial Services LLC, an Airway Heights industrial-waste recycling company, has bought 149 acres of vacant land on the West Plains that potentially could accommodate new business ventures for the company.The land is located just of

Love, or the prospect thereof, can make a man do crazy things.In Dennis Wendlandts case, it made him learn to square danceand eventually to become a Spokane shopkeeper.When Wendlandt and his wife, Shirley, first started dating in 1983, 80

First and foremost, Royce Drye will tell you, hes a professional fisherman who spends a few weeks each year trying to hook trophy walleye for big money prizes. It might not be surprising that the Spokane company he co-founded, The Tech Group a

Work at the proposed Mount Spokane Plaza in the Mead area could start up again soon.Lincoln Partners LLC, a Spokane company formed by Spokane developer Joe Stanek and his family, has received building permits to construct two retail buildings a

LineSoft Corp., a Spokane-based maker of software for power-line planning and design, has inked a multimillion-dollar contract to provide software to WPS Resources Corp., of Green Bay, Wis.Tom Smith, a LineSoft spokesman, estimates the value of

Wells & Co., of Spokane, has begun some preliminary work on the former Fairmont Apartments building in downtown Spokane and expects to get its $7 million renovation project there into full swing within two months, Spokane developer and architect of

Silicon Valley in the 1990s was a place and time unlike any other, Bill Kalivas says. The Spokane native talks almost romantically about having been there, as an old hippie might talk about being in San Francisco in the late 1960s. The is that a