Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, is feeling bullish about the potential for its Liberty Lake Center business park project following its first three land sales there.Metropolitan expects the center eventually will include 50 to

Michaels Stores Inc., the big Dallas-based retailer of arts, crafts, and home-decor items, plans to open a new store in the Spokane Valley Plaza shopping center just south of Interstate 90 and east of Sullivan Road.Michaels has agreed to lease a

TCI of Washington, which became Spokanes cable-TV provider a little over a year ago, is beginning to flex its digital muscles here.The company, a part of Denver-based giant Telecommunications Inc., has launched a new service here called Cable

Key Tronic Corp., the Spokane maker of keyboards and other computer-input devices, has steered into the promising waters of an industry segment called original design and manufacturing (ODM), and is preparing to churn up a wake.Although the the

It was great while it lasted.That might be the refrain of Spokane employers, who this year are being hit with health-care plan rate hikes averaging 8 percent to 12 percent after several years of shrinking, stable, or modestly rising of a couple

Real estate investor and developer Rob Brewster Jr. says he has bought the long-vacant Holley Mason Building in downtown Spokane and plans to rehabilitate the historic six-story structure.Brewster, who grew up in Spokane but now lives mostly in

A 108-mile freight line that connects Cheney to Coulee City, Wash., was deteriorating and headed for abandonment until Eastern Washington grain shippers, legislators, and the state Department of Transportation stepped in to help save it.Now, the

A small consulting firm here called Pacific Energy Research Associates Inc. has been awarded two contracts to conduct energy-related planning and feasibility studies in eastern Russia that could have major implications.Under one of the Pacific a

Broadway Group, a Spokane-based company that owns a chain of truck stops and smaller fuel stop-convenience store outlets as well as other properties, is getting ready to expand again.It expects shortly to buy a truck stop, casino, motel, and at

Sacred Heart Medical Center and Holy Family Hospital, both under the umbrella of Spokane-based Providence Services, are seeking state permission to open a 25-bed transitional-care unit at Holy Family.Holy Family is proposing to spend about $1.2