Late last year, Spokane-based Merck Familys Old World Christmas designed a champagne bottle-shaped Christmas ornament with fin de siecleend of the centuryon the label and a glittery year 2000 emblazoned across the front.Since then,

P.OB. Montgomery & Co., a Dallas-based real estate company that bought Franklin Park Mall about a year ago, is grappling with how it can create a new identity for the North Side retail center.Meanwhile, the mall continues to lose some of its &

Fiber-Tech Industries Inc., a Spokane-based manufacturer of fiberglass-reinforced plywood panels for the transportation industry, is expanding. The company has leased an additional 40,000 square feet of industrial space in the Spokane Business &

Alvin J. Wolff Inc., of Spokane, has begun work on an $11.6 million expansion of its 186-unit Big Trout Lodge apartment complex at Liberty Lake. It expects to complete the project, which will nearly double the size of the complex, within a is under

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has launched work on a big retail store at Shadle Center, the first of two megastores that the Bentonville, Ark.-based retail giant plans on Spokanes North Side.CSI Construction Inc., a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based has to

A group of investors that includes Spokane architect Glen A. Cloninger and downtown property owner K. Wendell Reugh is proposing a $50 million high-rise office tower to be built at one of two sites in the city center. The envisioned project is a

Brian and Judy Jorgensen, a Post Falls couple that owns a small North Idaho chain of pharmacies called Medicine Man Pharmacy Inc., plans to develop a $1.5 million retail center at Liberty Lake.The couple has applied for a building permit from to

Safeway Stores Inc., of Pleasanton, Calif., has agreed to lease a proposed supermarket space at a planned $9 million retail center in the Hillyard area of northeast Spokaneand close a nearby store, developer Jim Gallaugher says.Gallaugher, who

Jackson Five LLC, a company established by Spokane businessmen Steve Schmautz and Bill Lawson, has bought just over five acres of land at Liberty Lake Center and plans to construct two office buildings there worth a combined $6 million. The is &

Mumms The Word Inc., a Spokane-based crafts-publishing and art-design company here headed by country-style designer Debbie Mumm, is expanding its facility on Spokanes North Side to accommodate dramatic growth experienced this year.Steve the