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Local News - Local News - August 30, 2012
Greater Spokane Incorporated mulls port district push here
Idea could be accelerated by business recruitment efforts

By Linn Parish
Of the Journal of Business

Spokane County is one of two in Washington state that doesn't have a port district, and Greater Spokane Incorporated is exploring anew-nearly three decades after an unsuccessful bid-whether one should be created here.

GSI President and CEO Rich Hadley says the effort could be accelerated by another of the organization's initiatives, AIR Spokane, which is trying to attract a large aerospace manufacturer, such as Boeing Co., to one of two 300-acre sites near Spokane International A...


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