Hoopfest again, already. The first few years of Hoopfest were accompanied by complaints from businesses downtown who found the flood of basketball crowds too disruptive. There are still some who feel that way. The Davenport is not among those who don't like Hoopfest. It's a…
This Sunday correspondent Michael Guilfoil profiles Brad Hemenway's BJ Roofing. Hemenway specializes in copper, traveling across the country - even abroad - to apply his craft. He shares a few insights into his company's success and his history. Look for the story on the cover…
Today's local business section had a quick story on Jane E. Brown, newly named managing partner at Spokane law firm Paine Hamblen. The story noted it's the second oldest law firm in Spokane, having been started in 1893. It's also supposedly one of the first…
Big news if you do business in Clarkston, Wash. The Department of Commerce is providing $1.4 million to the Port of Clarkston to develop a manufacturing-focused business park. It's expected to create about 130 jobs and attract more than $30 million in private investment, says…
We gladly pass along interesting web comments that reflect on Spokane and the area's business climate. Here's a recent blog entry from the chief economist of Zillow, the Seattle property-data and property-price service. The author, Stan Humphries, said that larger cities and especially big cities…
Washington’s Employment Security Department and Spokane WorkSource are making it easier for employers and veterans to find each other. Job seekers who post résumés on go2worksource.com can check a box that lets employers know if they’re veterans. Employers who post job openings on go2worksource.biz can…
View Larger Map Wholesale Sports is relocating its only Spokane store to NorthTown Mall. The Calgary-based outdoor equipment retailer recently closed a store in Spokane Valley Mall and will open its North Spokane location in July, company marketing vice president Jimm Holland said. It’s moving…
Idaho Independent Bank announced Wednesday it plans to “go dark,” or voluntarily deregister its common stock. The Coeur d’Alene-based bank said it is taking the step to save money. When deregistration is effective, which should take place within 90 days, Idaho Independent Bank will no…
Another website devoted to finding vacation rentals just added a bunch of listings in Washington state. Dwellable just this week brought online listings for more than 1,000 Washington state rentals. And to be honest, not that many are in Spokane, at least as of June…
Spokane County will host two job fairs in July to hire more than 200 temporary workers for the next Spokane County Interstate Fair. Applicants must come in person to either the July 18 session, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., or the session July 21…
In case you wondered. Last week's dramatic events involving a chase of a felon who shot two Spokane deputies was a big deal with area online news companies. We asked how much those events affected the companies' news sites. Here's what we learned, based on…
Today's SR story on three growing Spokane area startups is part of this newspaper's yearlong look at jobs and employment challenges. The three we focused on are were digital marketing agency Seven2, green online retailer GreenCupboards and Liberty Lake software and app developer Gravity Jack.…
Spa Paradiso, the downtown beauty care business in the Davenport Hotel, will move into new space in the Kendall Yards development, owners Jan and Larry Schoonover said. The natural-care and beauty spa opened its doors in the 1990s in the basement of the former Bank…
We didn't produce a local business story Thursday. But Tom Sowa wrote an A-1 tech story about Mike Russell, the Hillyard geek who plays a pivotal part in making available the Spokane County emergency scanner channel to web users and smartphones. It was used heavily…
Additional material added, 1:50 p.m. June 22 You can find a copy of the petition at the bottom of this post. The aftermath of Initiative 1183 continues. A West side group, the 1183 Coalition, announced on Friday it filed a Thurston County suit contesting how…
UPDATED: At 1 p.m., we learned that the city and county don't provide money to the Workforce Development Council. Which means this was a politically necessary system that involved some overview by city and county officials, but without any skin in the game. City Communications…
Spokane County's unemployment rate for May grew to 9.1 percent, up from 8.7 percent in April, the state reported on Tuesday. The sad news: the May jobless rate this year is exactly the same as one year earlier, 9.1 percent. Statewide, Washington's jobless rate ticked…
Spokane-based Lee & Hayes grabbed the No. 1 rankings in patent quality and in the information technology industry, according to a recent publication that used industry-wide evaluations. Those rankings were the third consecutive year for Lee & Hayes to earn those top ratings in surveys…
Saturday's Spokesman Review and Spokesman.com featured a story on the popularity of last year's Groupon summer passes for Riverfront Park. Since the deals were so successful a year ago, the city Parks Department just re-upped and approved a new 2012 set of promotions that will…
The Washington Department of Transportation's new port of entry on Interstate 90 near the Idaho border is open for business. WashDOT describes the $14 million facility as equipped with state-of-the-art technology to enhance the efficiency, safety and security of truck freight movement at that location.…
Looking for the all-new realMyst for iPad and new iPad? Cyan Worlds, in north Spokane, announced the game is now available at the iTunes apps store, priced at $6.99. It's the rich and detailed Myst Island scenario, recreated with lots more dimensionality and textures. Office…
REVISED rules for our recent Viking Tavern Trivia Challenge. Now, instead of needing both righ answers to win a free account with Boomerang for Gmail, you need to get just one of the two right. Those questions again are: What was the address of the…
Spokane's Ambassadors Group Inc. has named James Kalustian as its board chair, filling the spot held by John Ueberroth. Kalustian, 51, has been a board director for the company since 2006. Ueberroth did not stand for re-election at the company's recent annual meeting. Ueberroth, who's…
View Larger Map Spokane's Viking Tavern closed its doors Tuesday, and owner Barbie Randazzo hasn't said what her long-term plans are. The popular hangout has been a North Spokane establishment since 1994. But as some readers of our daily news story noted, the Viking also…
Recently we took a look at the slow and painful progress Coldwater Creek has made in recovering from a difficult retail-apparel market. One thing we couldn't get, in time for the story, was the change in headcount for the Sandpoint publicly traded company (CWTR is…
The Spokesman-Review business team follows economic development in Spokane and the Inland Northwest.
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