Financial institutions here, like their counterparts nationally, are being forced to deal increasingly with the myriad costs and management responsibilities of property ownership as they've had to foreclose on more commercial and residential real a

After living and working for a time in northern California, Spokane Valley natives Curtiss and Laura Grenz were eager to return here, and they found a concrete way to do that, literally. They founded a business through which they used an initial of

Ross Stores Inc., a Pleasanton, Calif.-based company that operates the Ross Dress for Less retail chain, has agreed to lease most of the former Gottschalks Inc. space in the Manito Shopping Center, on Spokane's South Hill, and plans to open a store

Liberty Lake-based Greenstone Corp. is buying the vacant 250,000-square-foot Agilent Technologies Inc. building there, along with about 70 acres of land, and plans to develop a multibuilding campus on the site called the MeadowWood Technology is on

Ormet Corp., a Hannibal, Ohio-based aluminum producer, says it has agreed tentatively to buy the shuttered former Kaiser Aluminum Corp. Mead Works smelter and plans to reopen the carbon anode facility there if it completes the purchase.That a of

After 26 years of selling new boats here, Vince Zimmer is getting out of that wave-tossed business for awhile so he can focus instead on service work and used-boat consignment sales. He isn't alone in feeling buffeted by the changing market. "I a