Jim Koch claims he has always worked in a very corporate world, but its hard to tell that from the markets he serves, which range from extreme sports and rock music to custom cars and trick bikes.The 34-year-old Spokane artist owns an Jim

The development team thats pursuing a proposed $50 million-plus office tower in downtown Spokane is working to cut estimated costs enough to ensure the project is viable, and hopes to move forward with construction design this summer.Were to

Garco Development Services, of Spokane, is developing a speculative, 36,000-square-foot industrial building at Liberty Lake for a California investor.The two-story, concrete-walled structure is being erected at the far east end of Metropolitan &

The Coeur dAlene Tribe, which just completed a $12 million resort hotel and conference-center addition at its bingo-casino complex near Worley, Idaho, now is looking to invest another about $20 million on several other large projects Matheson, to

Crows Nest Entertainment Inc., of Spokane, has signed a pact with San Diego-based MP3.com Inc. through which it will begin selling and installing a new Web-based business music and advertising delivery service nationwide.Pat Stimpson, executive

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., the big Spokane-based financial-services company, has posted a loss applicable to common shareholders of about $12.2 million for its 2000 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30.The loss represented a sharp from a

Lotions & Potions, it might be argued, is part of the lasting progeny of Spokanes environmentally themed Expo 74 worlds fair.Owner Lara Hollingshead started the skin-care-and-bath-products business in a tiny space in the rejuvenated Flour

Jerry Hagood, co-founder of Kiemle & Hagood Co., one of the Inland Northwests largest commercial real estate and property-management concerns, has sold his remaining interest in the company to three other executives there.Tom Quigley, who had

What? Another call center coming to town?You can almost hear the collective groan coming from people who picture the creation of more low-paying, no-benefit jobs here and the prospect of their home phone ringing more frequently at though, a

Software Spectrum Inc., the Garland, Texas-based software seller and technical-service provider, says it expects to add more than 300 employees here this year, giving it a total work force of around 900.Alison Eldred, the companys manager says