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Software makers find niches

Spokane, CdÂ’A company founders saw needs while in other industries, then met them
February 26, 1997
Adrienne C. Dellwo
The legacy of the Spokane-area software industry includes companies that shot to the top by serving major industries or by capturing sizable chunks of national and international markets.Today, however, feisty smaller software developers here and
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Flat Spin Media moves into VisiontecÂ’s building

February 26, 1997
Rob Strenge
Flat Spin Media LLC, a young Spokane multimedia company, has moved its operations into a 51,000-square-foot building owned by Visiontec Inc., a contract circuit-board manufacturer located at 10920 E. Sprague in the Spokane Valley.Craig Sorenson,
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Meckel Engineering to construct building

CdÂ’A company will start project as soon as it sells longtime headquarters
February 26, 1997
Addy Hatch
Meckel Engineering & Surveying Inc., of Coeur dAlene, has bought property in the Coeur dAlene Commerce Park for a new building and plans to begin construction of that structure as soon as it sells its longtime headquarters near downtown.The
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Sterling opens banking center in Portland

At downtown metro office, Spokane institution seeks small to mid-sized clients
February 26, 1997
Richard Ripley
Sterling Savings Bank, of Spokane, has opened a corporate banking center in downtown Portland to seek business from small to mid-sized companies there.Sterling says the center offers a wide array of corporate banking services, as well as an
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Colville location picked for new WDS call center

Dental benefits providerÂ’s expansion to bring 30 jobs in customer service, claims
February 26, 1997
Rob Strenge
The states largest dental benefits provider, Seattle-based Washington Dental Service, has chosen Colville as the site for a new call center thats initially expected to create nearly 30 new customer-service and claims-processing jobs in that the
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HIP group is developing uninsured workersÂ’ plan

Expanded Choice initiative hopes to introduce ‘bridge’ insurance options in 2002
February 26, 1997
Kim Crompton
The Health Improvement Partnership, a Spokane nonprofit organization, is working through a community initiative called Expanded Choice to develop health-benefit options to offer to uninsured workers in an 11-county Eastern Washington area.Sharon
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Pie maker buys land for possible new plant

Company hopes to decide within a month whether to go ahead with project
February 26, 1997
Linn Parish
U.S. Pies Realty LLC, an affiliate of Spokane-based Cyrus OLearys Wholesale Pies, has bought six acres of land in Airway Heights and is studying the feasibility of constructing a 35,000-square-foot pie-production facility there.Barclay of of
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Schweitzer bankruptcy case officially to close

ResortÂ’s creditors received, on the average, 75 cents on the dollar, filing says
February 26, 1997
Addy Hatch
A hearing in Boise next week is expected to close the books on the 1997 Chapter 11 reorganization of Schweitzer Mountain Resort, in which creditors were repaid an average of 75 cents on the dollar, court documents show.Thats a very good for
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Counting on ‘counter impulse’

Unitime Imports Inc.
February 26, 1997
Kim Crompton
If youve walked into a convenience store in the Pacific Northwest to pay for gas or to buy snacks, its quite possible that you also have looked at, been tempted by, and maybe even snatched up products sold by Doug Huffmans Spokane-based items
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Prof devises new growth indices here

WSU economistÂ’s models suggest outside factors donÂ’t rock SpokaneÂ’s economy
February 26, 1997
Paul Read
A Washington State University professor here has developed what he believes are accurate new methods for measuring the Spokane areas economic growth.Don Epley, an urban economist and a professor of real estate and finance at WSUs Spokane he
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