With Thanksgiving almost here, it's pertinent to think about the consumer reaction to plans by big retailers to open their doors one day before Black Friday. We found that that Change.org has acted like a gatekeeper, providing links to 63 different no-shop petitions opposing Thanksgiving…
Three Spokane area businesses are finalists for Good Food Awards. Coffee roasters Doma and Roast House, and restaurant Santé made it through the first round of judging for the 2014 competition, sponsored by Seedling Projects of San Francisco. The California public benefit corporation is dedicated…
Oops. Pilots who fly one of Boeing's very large 747 Dreamlifter aircraft made a mistake yesterday, landing at the wrong airport, then being stuck overnight. As spotted on Wired.com, the pilots thought they were landing at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas, but instead landed…
Today's SR story about the large hotel project across from the Convention Center featured an aerial photo by SR photographer Jesse Tinsley. The photo doesn't display very well the large monolithic wall that's on the site. At the street level, that large wall of concrete…
Last Friday was the final workday for Pat Matthews and his Sandwich Gardens restaurant in downtown Spokane. After opening a downtown food place and then closing it in 1998, Matthews got the chance to come back and reopen in 2009, in the east side of…
Tomorrow (Nov. 20) morning is John Mitchell's annual poetic forecast of next year's economic performance. Mitchell, (pictured, and formerly of US Bank), has been a longtime provider of the annual forecast of economic conditions facing the region in 2014. He and Grant Forsyth, formerly of…
Now that Cyan Worlds has exceeded its $1.1 million Kickstarter campaign (now at $1.24 million) for its next big game, we felt the urge to find out how Rand Miller, Robyn Miller and their team managed to keep the company together. More than three times…
Tonight's Startup Weekend Spokane may well be the best-attended so far in our little town. As of 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 15, 114 people have signed up. The previous highest was 116, for the second #SpoSW. Organizer Brett Noyes said it's likely four to 10…
Cyan Worlds on Wednesday exceeded its Kickstarter campaign goal of $1.1 million. The Mead company had started the crowd-sourcing campaign more than three weeks ago to raise funds to move the game off the drawing board into digital production. The SR story about the announcement…
A recent story noted that Seattle-based Amazon is trying to make nice with the very bookstores who are threatened by its vast online impact. The story noted that Amazon is offering to share some of the revenue from eBooks and ereaders that would be sold…
Developer Steven Schmautz is completing the renovation of the former Johnston Printing warehouse into commercial offices at 121 W. Pacific Ave. in Spokane. The conversion will leave about 8,600 square feet of office space. Three tenants have signed leases: The Union, a yoga salon run…
View Larger Map Spokane developer Jerry Dicker and his firm, GVD Commercial Properties, has purchased the former Ramada Express hotel at 123 S. Post St. The GVD firm also operates the nearby Hotel Ruby at the Corner of First and Lincoln. The sale price was…
Comcast continues to look for ways to reach out to the "cord nevers," the generally younger folks who don't much care to watch TV over a TV set. Most of those people tend to all or most of their entertainment on devices via the web.…
The real winner in today's SR story about a BBB secret shop to see which gold buyers paid top dollar, was American Coin & Vault. The north Spokane business made the highest offer -- about $510 for a pile of jewelry appraised at $593. But…
Spokane's Etailz (formerly Green Cupboards) recently was chosen the best retail business in the Green Washington awards, a competition hosted by Seattle Business magazine. As the magazine notes, the awards "recognize companies, nonprofits, and government institutions taking significant and/or innovative steps to reduce their impact…
Entry revised on 11/06/13 12:12 PM I made a fairly major mistake last week dealing with a business section news item, related to Coldwater Creek. The Sandpoint women's retailer sent out a release saying it would restructure and cut expenses significantly. It provided a few…
Spokane Indians baseball team owner Bobby Brett and investor Chris Batten have purchased the historic Dutch’s building at 415 W. Main. The partners say they plan to restore the early 20th-century building and fill it with retail tenants. The sale is a bittersweet occasion for…
The Spokesman-Review business team follows economic development in Spokane and the Inland Northwest.
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