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Agilent eyes hiring more than 100

Company seeks entry-level production operators here, and ‘couple dozen’ engineers
February 26, 1997
Lisa Harrell
Agilent Technologies, which owns Hewlett-Packard Co.s former operations here, is looking to hire more than 100 people in Spokane immediately.Liz Cox, an Agilent spokeswoman here, says the bulk of the new hires are needed to fill entry-level in
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Itron plots comeback this year

Reorganizes into five business units, names new execs
February 26, 1997
Lisa Harrell
Itron Inc. appears to have regained its confidence, but not its profitabilityyet.The Spokane-based maker of meter-reading equipment for the utility industry has suffered financial losses, layoffs, and unmet expectations over the last couple
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Huge dealership set to swell

KelloggÂ’s Dave Smith Motors already employs 240 people, had Â’99 sales of $210 million
February 26, 1997
Addy Hatch
KELLOGGThe biggest auto dealership in the Inland Northwest is getting bigger. Dave Smith Motors, both marveled at by admirers and despised by rivals for the high volume of sales it conducts from this old mining town, says it soon will begin in
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Lon Gibby seeks funds for growth

Production house also mulls idea of going public through an acquisition
February 26, 1997
Lisa Harrell
Lon Gibby Productions Inc., a 17-year-old Spokane video production company, says its working to secure additional capital to take advantage of potential growth opportunities in the Internet world.Company President Lon Gibby says Gibby is with
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Parrott is flying to Spokane

Acquisitions have made consolidations necessary
February 26, 1997
Addy Hatch
Parrott Mechanical Inc. will move its headquarters and a service division to Spokane from Coeur dAlene this summer and consolidate its operations in a new, $10 million business park, says the companys general manager, Howard Rude. Parrott, a
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Deaconess seeks to open kidney dialysis center

State Department of Health is reviewing application for eight-station facility
February 26, 1997
Anita Burke
Deaconess Medical Center has applied to the Washington state Department of Health for a certificate of need to open an eight-station kidney dialysis center in its main hospital building this summer.Deaconess Chief Operating Officer Tom Zellers a
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Pend Oreille PUD seeks Box Canyon relicensing

District proposes to spend $17 million-plus to boost damÂ’s generating capacity
February 26, 1997
Kim Crompton
Pend Oreille Public Utility District No. 1, which serves about 7,400 electricity customers in northeast Washington, has applied to federal authorities for a new operating license for Box Canyon Dam, a 60-megawatt hydroelectric facility located on
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AlbertsonÂ’s delays work at Mead site

Bank, others follow suit; developer says project still could start this spring
February 26, 1997
Linn Parish
Albertsons Inc., of Boise, has decided to put off building a 57,000-square-foot supermarket at Mount Spokane Plaza, a shopping center planned for the Mead area, delaying other plans there, Spokane developer Joe Stanek says.It isnt a of or
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Avista unit gobbles up downtown office space

Telecommunication service occupies space in Levy, 1889, U.S. Bank buildings
February 26, 1997
Lisa Harrell
To accommodate its rapid growth, Avista Communications, an affiliate of Spokane-based Avista Corp., has leased more than 16,000 square feet of additional office space in downtown Spokane since the first of the year.Avista Communications, which a
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Economic-development leaders to meet on goals

Organizers hope workshop will boost understanding, cooperation among groups
February 26, 1997
Anita Burke
Leaders of Spokane-area economic-development groups plan to meet this month to compare goals and look at ways the groups might cooperate.Were pulling together key organizations involved in economic development to see what everyone is doing a
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