Today's SR had a story on two artists, Charlie Schmidt and Ken Spiering, who have an active campaign to hunt down online infringers of their copyrights. Schmidt protects his well-known Keyboard Cat image and video; Spiering his well-regarded Riverfront Park interactive sculpture -- properly referred…
Update on the Jensen-Byrd building and plans to demolish it (see earlier story). The City of Spokane's Hearing Examiner's office has postponed today's scheduled hearing, which was to hear an appeal by opponents of Campus Advantage, the Texas firm planning to tear down the structure…
Spokane ad agency Magner Sanborn was named best small agency in the West Coast in a competition arranged by media publication Ad Age. The award was presented to company principals at a recent event in Minneapolis. Ad Age gives out a gold and silver award…
Sandpoint women’s apparel retailer Coldwater Creek is proposing a reverse stock split to keep the company trading on the Nasdaq market. A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission proposes a vote by Coldwater shareholders to approve the split. Neither the date for the election…
The London Olympics are right around the corner. Which means, someone out there totally thinks they have a timely idea for a themed book. But I'm pretty sure it's not this book, "Inside the Beijing Olympics," by Jeff Ruffalo. He just emailed me (and probably…
First off, no, we won't hand out a coupon for Total Wine to the winner of this Office Hours contest. Last week we ran a story describing plans by Total Wine to open two big megastores in Spokane. Total Wine, you might remember, is one…
OK, things are pretty odd and disturbing in little ol' Spokane when we have street battles between competing security companies. SECURITY company reps, duking it out over sales and turf, no less! SR writer Meghann Cuniff spills the beans with a recent Sirens & Gavels…
Spokane’s Red Lion Hotels Corp. announced Wednesday it’s added a franchise location in Cathedral City, Calif. This fall the 97-room Quality Inn & Suites Date Palm will convert to Red Lion Hotel Cathedral City. Cathedral City is approximately seven miles southeast of Palm Springs. Red…
Is it a coincidence? A few months after Goldman Sachs announced that it's buying 13.3 percent interest in Turkey’s largest private gas utility, that utility, AKSA Energy, decides to order 745,000 Itron gas meters. Yes indeed, Goldman Sachs is an investor in Liberty Lake-based Itron,…
Northwest Maps, which for the past several years was Spokane's primary option for buying topo and recreation maps, has shifted to an online- and phone-only business, said owner Steve Mitrovich. In addition to closing down its Spokane Valley store, the Mitroviches now are only selling…
Renovations are expected to be complete by September for Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories' new Spokane Valley office. The engineering and manufacturing company based in Pullman is renovating a 7,000-square-foot office space at 3808 Sullivan Road. The company will lease the space, which formerly was a National…
We went over to the Gonzaga neighborhood recently and found Spokane artist Tom Quinn hard at work on the final touches of a mural being added to the University Bar & Grill. We were struck by two things: John Stockton (who apparently didn't want his…
Earlier this week we mentioned the cameo that Rick Woodbury's Tango electric car landed in a feature film, "Robot and Frank." We learned there is one other film probably to be released in 2012 that will feature four Tangos. It's "Looper," and like "Robot and…
This past week Coldwater Creek got a dose of cash from a major investor. The announcement that Bay Area private equity firm Golden Gate Capital was lending $65 million helped boost the company's public stock to above 80 cents per share. That's the highest it's…
Renovations are expected to be complete by September for Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories' new Spokane Valley office. The engineering and manufacturing company based in Pullman is renovating a 7,000-square-foot office space at 3808 Sullivan Road. The company will lease the space, which formerly was a National…
The SR and Spokesman.com featured a business story today on the rising hope that the area's housing market is coming back. Today's Washington Post had the exact same idea today. Here's its take, which is nearly identical to the SR story, in terms of why…
Many of us have heard the complaint: dang retailers, they don't show the actual price of the liquor I want to buy! In the wake of Initiative 1183, which got the state out of the business of selling booze in Washington, people are clamoring for…
Friends and outdoorsmen, you can plan your July 20 around the opening of the new Wholesale Sports Outdoors Outfitters stores in NorthTown Mall. The retailer of fishing, hunting and camping gear opens its doors at 9 a.m. on that date. The Calgary-based retailer recently closed…
One of the Spokane-made Tango electric cars developed by Rick Woodbury shows up in the trailer of the new summer film "Robot and Frank." The flick features Susan Sarandon and Frank Langella. Woodbury is the founder of CommuterCars.com, one of Spokane's better-known but underfunded startups.…
Our fellow Spokesman.com blogger Lorie Hutson has a quick post on the soft opening of another Spokane downtown eatery. This being Boots Bakery & Lounge, just opened by Alison Collins. Alison was the nonpareil bartender at Spokane's food shop Mizuna until recently. This is her…
Last week one fun story was a business section review of how two area firms, Ecova and Nuvodia, ended up choosing their business names. Nuvodia was a brand new name for a reconstituted part of Spokane-based Inland Imaging Business Services. Ecova was the new name…
You don't have to be a tree-hugger to get behind the idea of fixing what ails America. One new effort, which purports to be a grass-roots effort to change the U.S. economy, is "Fixing the Future," a series of sessions and events. The idea stems…
A student housing project near Gonzaga University has landed a major architecture award. The building, developed by Buzz Price on a reclaimed residential lot at 817 E. Nora, won a Gold Nugget Grand Award for best campus housing in a competition sponsored by Builder Magazine…
Somebody appears to want to reopen the Viking Tavern, in north Spokane at 1221 N. Stevens. Instead of a tavern, the state application for a liquor license says the business will be the Viking Bar and Grill. Current owner Barbara Randazzo closed it down about…
Here's the top of my main story in tomorrow's papers and on Spokesman.com: Vince Bozzi was not looking to become an event center manager. But it happened, bit by bit. Along with his wife, Emily, Bozzi run several Spokane and Coeur d’Alene-based magazines under the…
The Spokesman-Review business team follows economic development in Spokane and the Inland Northwest.
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