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Executive optimism here edges up slightly

Quarterly poll suggests sentiment that Spokane still lags rest of the nation
February 26, 1997
Paul Read
In a quarterly survey conducted earlier this month, Spokane business owners and managers voiced slightly greater confidence in the economy than they have all year, but suggested that they continued to believe Spokanes economy was slipping farther
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Cost Plus chain eyes Spokane area for outlet

Oakland home-entertainment, casual-living retailer looks at several expansion sites
February 26, 1997
Chad Cain
Cost Plus Inc., an Oakland, Calif.-based retail chain that sells home decor and imported specialty items, says its eyeing several Spokane-area properties to find a site for an outlet it might open here by late next year.Melissa Oldenbourg, is
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Use of old asphalt debated

City, county, contractors differ over including recycled material in paving projects
February 26, 1997
Marlene Mehlhaff
Are the city of Spokane and Spokane County putting down the right mix of materials to pave their roads?Spokane paving contractors say the city and county need to add recycled asphalt to the paving mix thats laid on roads here. They say it for
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Big postal center plans solidify

Agency is firming up details for mail distribution facility in the airport business park
February 26, 1997
Kim Crompton
The U.S. Postal Service appears to be solidifying plans for a huge new processing-and-distribution center in the Spokane International Airport Business Park that will replace an older facility located near downtown.The agency recently completed
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New heart procedures arrive

Surgeons here are using less invasive techniques to minimize pain, trauma
February 26, 1997
Marlene Mehlhaff
Heart surgery here and around the nation is going through a revolution.In some cases, surgeons now are using a variety of much smaller incisions to get to the heart, rather than opening up the entire chest, and are avoiding the use of a machine
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Large sports complex planned for the Valley

Plans call for 13 soccer fields, five softball diamonds just east of Plantes Ferry Park
February 26, 1997
Chad Cain
The Spokane Valley Junior Soccer Association and Spokane County hope to begin work this summer on a planned 70-acre sports complex in the Spokane Valley that eventually would include 13 soccer fields and five softball diamonds.The $1.1 million
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PhysiciansÂ’ group plans medical-business park

Doctors to build new offices in first construction project in 17-acre CdÂ’A development
February 26, 1997
Lisa Harrell
A Coeur dAlene medical practice says it plans to develop a 17-acre medical and business park at the northwest corner of Prairie Avenue and U.S. 95 there.Hayden Lake Family Physicians, which is owned by Dr. Mark Borsheim and Dr. Terry Riske, to
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Used-car ‘superstore’ is coming to Spokane

DriverÂ’s Mart outlet here to stock about 400 vehicles, employ touch-screen kiosks
February 26, 1997
Lisa Harrell
One of Spokanes biggest auto dealerships, Appleway Automotive Group, has bought the rights for Washington and Idaho to open nationally franchised used-car superstores called Drivers Marts, each of which is expected to carry large inventories of
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Trade mission follow-up begins

Spokane-area delegates hold encouraging talks in Japan, remain hopeful about results
February 26, 1997
Kim Crompton
A common sight in the heavily urban Kansai Region of Japan is that of a man in dapper business attire riding a bicycle, carrying a portfolio case in his bikes front basket and holding a cellular phone to his ear.Spokane delegates who returned
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DOT picks route for freeway

North-south artery would run near Market-Greene
February 26, 1997
Marlene Mehlhaff
The Washington state Department of Transportation finally has released its preferred route for the long-proposed north-south freeway, which would carry traffic between Interstate 90 on the south and both U.S. 2 and U.S. 395 north of Spokane.DOT
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