Kim Crompton

Marketing motor mayhem

June 18, 2009

A sizable crowd at the State Line Stadium Speedway in Post Falls cheered in delight last Wednesday night as a battered, but game V-8 hulk spun off the track, then was rammed broadside by another car that was trying to avoid it, in the final lap of

Empire Ford property, others on block

Ridpath properties return, plus six on West Plains; eBay-style sale planned

June 18, 2009

Kim Crompton

The former Empire Ford dealership property downtown is among nine Spokane-area properties slated to be offered for sale next month, all through an eBay-style online timed auction format.Also among the nine are the top two floors of the 13-story

Tight passage for Providence

Fledgling chief of largest hospital system here has his hands full

June 18, 2009

Kim Crompton

Dr. Andy Agwunobi says one of the things that convinced him to leave a high-ranking post in Florida and move across the country to the Inland Northwest was his desire to achieve a better work-life balance, one that would afford him more family CEO

Spokane's Kiemle & Hagood Co. sells its parking-services division

June 4, 2009

Kim Crompton

Kiemle & Hagood Co., the big Spokane-based commercial real estate and property management company, says it has sold its Friendly Parking Services division, which it formed about six years ago, to Seattle-based Republic Parking Northwest for an & of

Dismissal of suit against truck dealer affirmed

June 4, 2009

Kim Crompton

The Washington state Court of Appeals has upheld a Spokane County Superior Court judge's dismissal of a breach of contract lawsuit filed against Spokane heavy-duty truck dealer Ken Cook by former dealership investors Clark and Barbara Kinney.The

Flight service wins appellate court decision

Panel says SIA didn't have standing to use eminent domain on Spokane Airways

June 4, 2009

Kim Crompton

Spokane Airports, operated jointly by the city of Spokane and Spokane County, lacked legal authority to use eminent domain to force fixed-base operator Spokane Airways to vacate leased buildings it was occupying at Spokane International Airport, a

Doused effort to alter I-937 flickers on

Bill to revise renewable energy criteria died, but sponsor predicts rebirth

June 4, 2009

Kim Crompton

Sen. Chris Marr, D-Spokane, who spearheaded a bill in the 2009 Washington Legislature to give electric utilities more ways to meet voter-approved renewable-energy standards, predicts the main points of the legislation will re-emerge in 2010. The in

Auction of Ridpath floors, annex fails to draw buyers

Agents continue talks with interested parties, eye another auction try

May 21, 2009

Kim Crompton

A sealed-bid auction has failed to attract buyers for the top two floors of the 13-story former Ridpath Hotel tower downtown or for the four-story annex, known as the Y Building, that's just east of the tower. NAI Black sales and leasing agent

NightHawk gets goodwill off its books

Idaho company is one of latest in area to post big impairment charge

May 21, 2009

Kim Crompton

NightHawk Radiology Holdings Inc., of Coeur d'Alene, is one of the latest Inland Northwest companies to feel the financial sting of having to report a sizable write-down due to the economically depleted value of assets it was carrying on its its on

Northern Quest gets set to staff up

Tribe to add 400 workers, mostly at casino, yet this year

May 21, 2009

Kim Crompton

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians, which operates the expanding Northern Quest Resort & Casino, in Airway Heights, says it expects to add about 400 employees by the end of this year there, mostly to staff an upscale hotel and luxury spa complex it's is