A Denver company is buying two Spokane aviation service firms and will combine them into a single operation. Ross Aviation is acquiring XN Air and Spokane Airways; both are fixed-base operators — commercial companies offering fueling, maintenance, charter flights, training and cargo handling. Jeff Ross,…
Spokane-based AmericanWest Bank has completed its purchase of Viking Bank, a deal announced earlier this year that will give AmericanWest a larger presence in Puget Sound. The $7.2 million transaction brings AmericanWest seven new branches. AmericanWest earlier this year bought Sunrise Bank of Southern California…
OLYMPIA — Most Washington businesses will see lower unemployment taxes and many will have no increase in their workers compensation rates in 2012. Gov. Chris Gregoire, announcing the new rates for next year, said they represent “real reform” through work with the Legislature earlier this…
The Spokesman-Review business team follows economic development in Spokane and the Inland Northwest.
