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Freightliner dealer here gets big project rolling

Freedom Truck Centers expects summer opening for $4.5 million facility
February 26, 1997
Sandra Hosking
Freedom Truck Centers Inc., Spokanes Freightliner truck dealership, has kicked off site work on the West Plains for a long-planned sales and service facility thats expected to cost about $4.5 million to develop.The facility is to be on a the
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Plans for downtown office complex move ahead

Local investors buy land in west 200 block of Main, construction to start soon
February 26, 1997
Kim Crompton
The proposed development of an office-retail complex on the east side of downtown Spokane, which investors had said earlier they were considering, now appears poised to move ahead.Spokane real estate specialist Dick Edwards, one of the says call
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Group buys 64 acres on West Plains

Land is across U.S. 2 from Boeing Co.Â’s plant, zoned for industrial uses
February 26, 1997
Linn Parish
An unidentified group of Spokane developers has bought a long-standing, 64-acre West Plains farm around which major industrial developments have sprouted in recent years.The land, which previously was owned by Adams Family Farm LLC, is located 2
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Indoor go-cart track being developed here

Spokane businessmen plan to open facility next month
February 26, 1997
Linn Parish
A new Spokane-based go-cart track development group plans to open an indoor facility here next month for racing.Called Nascart Indoor Speedway, the racetrack will be located in a leased, 30,000-square-foot warehouse space at 1224 E. Front, near
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WomenÂ’s investor group buys Odd Fellows Hall

Odd Girls LLC to update the 90-year-old downtown building, open center there
February 26, 1997
Kim Crompton
A newly formed investor group of women coincidentally named Odd Girls LLC has bought the 90-year-old Odd Fellows Hall at 1017 W. First with hopes of using it as a catalyst for redevelopment of that area of downtown Spokane.We have some plans a
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Restaurant project eyed for downtown property

It had to get past land-use concerns affecting former Union Gospel Mission site
February 26, 1997
Linn Parish
Mission Property LLC, of Spokane, is negotiating with a national restaurant chain that hopes to build an eatery at the high-profile corner of Spokane Falls Boulevard and Browne Street, where the Union Gospel Mission building and another dilapidated
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Y2K doesnÂ’t bug everybody

Merck FamilyÂ’s Old World Christmas
February 26, 1997
Linn Parish
Late last year, Spokane-based Merck Familys Old World Christmas designed a champagne bottle-shaped Christmas ornament with fin de siecleend of the centuryon the label and a glittery year 2000 emblazoned across the front.Since then,
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New Light draws bead on ID cards

VentureÂ’s device eventually might produce holographic driverÂ’s license portraits
February 26, 1997
Paul Read
New Light Industries Ltd., an 8-year-old West Plains company that develops holography equipment, says it might be just a year or two away from completing development of a device that could be used to produce holographic portraits of people for and
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I-695 certain to dominate session

Business groups also want attention for health care, unemployment insurance
February 26, 1997
Anita Burke
When the Washington Legislature convenes next month, it will face a large elephant in a small room.Thats the analogy Richard Davis, president of the Washington Research Council, a Seattle-based public policy think tank, uses to describe how of
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Internet start-up debuts strong

SpokaneÂ’s Screaming Mouse is seeking $1.5 million in venture capital, could land its first client soon
February 26, 1997
Lisa Harrell
Screaming Mouse is scurrying into the future of high-tech marketing.The young Spokane software company debuted its softwarewhich uses attention-getting sound and music to bolster marketing efforts on web sitesin early November via a web site
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