We asked recently when Walmart would get around to breaking ground on a new store in Spokane Valley. In March 2010 the company first announced it had plans for the store, west of the Costco at 5200 E. Sprague. Our first story said: Walmart says…
Are you ready to talk Dodd-Frank? Do you want to? Former Gonzaga Law School Dean, current GU Professor Daniel Morrissey will deliver the keynote speech for “The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act Symposium,” a daylong event starting at 8 a.m., Friday at…
The City of Spokane this week launched a new Spokane Business Center on the main floor of City Hall. It came about after a survey of area small businesses learned many wanted a simpler system for interaction with city staff and city agencies. The main…
Friday was Day One of Life with Trader Joe's, in Spokane. The word from those at Lincoln Heights Shopping Center was that the first few hours were busy and ebullient. People actually seemed happy to be spending money, was the word we heard. Here's an…
Netflix recently raised its video rental prices. And now, so has Redbox, the Washington-based rental kiosk entertainment provider. The company said it's raising the basic rental fee for most videos from $1 to $1.20. The price increase goes into effect now. Blu-Ray disks will remain…
Today's' Spokesman Review business story of note was the one (by Tom Sowa) on the newly developed software tool called the Anomalator which is being used to analyze complex financial market data. Spokane-based V-Indicator Analytics LLC licensed advanced visualization and sorting software developed by Battelle…
Itron Inc.'s board brought back retired CEO LeRoy Nosbaum this year in part to help correct the company's plunging stock price over the past 14 months. Despite kinda scary 3Q earnings (see below for details), Nosbaum has begun to fix that issue. The publicly traded…
View Larger Map Jackie and Jamie Wolff, owners of popular quilting shop, The Quiliting Bee, have sold the business to Spokane residents Treasure and Scot Auble. The Wolffs founded The Quilting Bee 27 years ago and made it one of the area's primary providers of…
Do you have a strong sense of duty, honor and service? Are you physically fit and educated? Looking for a career? It's not the Army or Marines asking this time. It's the Washington State Patrol, which is recruiting for trooper positions. Candidates are invited to…
We found this curious, ironic story at Rollingstone.com, describing some harsh reactions by designers to the suggestion by President Obama that they design a free poster for his jobs campaign. The president has asked graphic artists to donate their work for nothing. That's set off…
The Sierra Club is bringing its anti-coal campaign to Spokane Thursday, urging local residents to oppose terminals at Washington seaports that would ship coal to Asia. Coal producers are seeking permits to build terminals near Bellingham and Longview to ship up to 130 million tons…
Tariffs on Northwest fruit crops and potatoes vanished Friday, completing an agreement that allows Mexican trucking firms to deliver inside the United States. The Mexican government announced elimination of the final 10 percent tariffs on 90 U.S. products, including apples, pears, cherries and apricots. Mexico…
Washington State University regents will be asked next month to approve the plans for $80 million worth of improvements to Martin Stadium, with a portion of the money to come from the Pacific-12’s new television contract that dramatically increased revenues to each team. The regents…
UPDATED: Part of tomorrow's Facebook Small Business Boost is a summary of how Facebook, starting in January, will award small businesses up to $10 million worth of free Facebook advertising. The goal of these these ad credits is to give 200,000 businesses across the country…
SEATTLE — Boeing employment in Washington has exceeded 80,000 workers for the first time in nearly a dozen years, The Associated Press reports. The company reports it had 80,666 workers in the state at the end of September. That’s the most since December 1999 when…
You say you're a business that's cool with Facebook, but you don't think it will help your bottom line. You might rethink that idea, especially during the coming National Federation of Independent Business meeting to take place in Spokane from Sunday through Tuesday, at the…
It's no surprise to hear that the state budget mess is continuing to take a toll. The surprise was the announcement of how many Employment Security Department workers will be laid off in January: 223, and maybe more. All told, about 60 or so of…
Two companies from Spokane and Tacoma have received Secretary of State Sam Reed's most prestigious civics award for businesses in Washington state. Reed will present the 2011 Corporations for Communities awards to Spokane-based Sterling Savings Bank and Korsmo Consruction at a ceremony on Nov. 2.…
For six months Spokane ad firm Magner Sanborn developed a logo and an extensive brand and marketing components for Qwikster, a top-secret business plan by Netflix to split its company into a new division. In September, Netflix jump-started the launch, surprising both its rental-DVD customers…
Washington's September jobless rate dropped two-tenths of a percent to 9.1 percent, said the Employment Security Department on Wednesday. Even so, the slight drop is accompanied by the loss of 18,400 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis. Construction lost the most in the past month,…
The Exchange Club of Downtown Spokane is seeking donations and contributions for this year's 45th Annual Crab Feed and Auction, set for Dec. 2. With less than eight weeks to go, the event sponsors are seeking donations and support for the benefit event, which raises…
Spokane's best-known, homegrown electric car, the Tango, is the featured photo on the cover of TechBriefs magazine's October issue. Developed by Rick Woodbury of Commuter Cars Corp., the Tango is a two-seat electric car that has wowed green consumers worldwide. Woodbury has sold Tangos to…
First class postage stamp prices are going up by 1 cent starting in January, the U.S. Postal Service said Tuesday. The cost of a first-class stamp — also known as a Forever Stamp — will climb to 45 cents on Jan. 22, the first price…
Omaha-based West Corp. will hire at least 250 call center workers for its downtown Spokane building, the company announced Tuesday. Hiring will begin this week, with paid training starting on Nov. 2, said David Pleiss, vice president of investor and public relations. Jobs will start…
Apple retail stores, including the one in downtown Spokane, will close for part of Wednesday to allow staff workers to celebrate Steve Jobs. The celebration will run from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. During that time, employees company-wide are invited to view a live broadcast…
The Spokesman-Review business team follows economic development in Spokane and the Inland Northwest.
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