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Mike McLean

Mike McLean

Deputy Editor Mike McLean has worked his entire journalism career in the Inland Northwest. Mike, who also lives to reel in fish and crank up music, has worked for the Journal since 2006.

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—Idaho Retail LLC

Riverstone Village retail store space now fully leased

All 160 acres at Cd'A site either bought or spoken for
July 6, 2017
Mike McLean
There's no space left to lease at the Riverstone Village retail center in Coeur d'Alene, and all of the land in the surrounding 160-acre Riverstone development is spoken for, says a commercial real estate broker involved in many of the recent transact
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Express Employment moves North Idaho office

Company takes larger space in Coeur d'Alene
July 6, 2017
Mike McLean
The North Idaho office of staffing recruitment and placement company Express Employment Professionals has moved to Coeur d'Alene from Post Falls. The office, which is a franchise of the Oklahoma City-based company of the same name, now is located in a
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Gesa opens Spokane Valley branch

New outlet for credit union occupies former bank site
July 6, 2017
Mike McLean
Richland-based Gesa Credit Union has opened a Spokane Valley branch in the Banner Center retail plaza at 509 N. Sullivan. The branch occupies the old 2,200-square-foot site of a Banner Bank branch, which closed after the Walla Walla-based bank merged wit
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Conversion of Ridpath Hotel is underway downtown

First rental units to be finished in October
July 6, 2017
Mike McLean
Prominent Spokane developer Ron Wells says the ownership group he leads has obtained a building permit to convert most of the Ridpath Hotel into downtown workforce apartments, after a protracted effort to consolidate ownership of the Spokane landmark and
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—Mike McLean

Taking 3-D printing to heart

Pediatric cardiologists use patient models to test procedures
July 6, 2017
Mike McLean
Dr. Carl Garabedian and other Spokane pediatric heart physicians are pioneering the use of 3-D printed models to plan and practice complex heart procedures. The physicians, who work at the Providence Center for Congenital Heart Disease clinic at Sacred H
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—Empire Unmanned

Challenge after ascent

Drone pioneer Empire Unmanned expands geographic reach as revenues level off
June 22, 2017
Mike McLean
Following soaring sales growth in drone services reported by Hayden-based Empire Unmanned for 2016, activity this year has begun to descend as some potential customers are viewing drone operations as a do-it-yourself industry. Bradley Ward, president of
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—Mike McLean

Father-son financial planners embrace tech tools

Longtime company here serves about 400 clients
June 22, 2017
Mike McLean
Financial planner Ted Demars founded what would become family-run Demars Financial Group LLC here in 1973, when he was still doing mostly insurance work, and the handheld electronic calculator was just coming onto the scene. Though such calculators initi
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—Russell C. Page Architects PS

Office, retail structure in Mead to be expanded

Developer plans addition to physical therapy building
June 22, 2017
Mike McLean
Charles Gallagher, owner of the Institute for Physical & Sports Therapy, is developing a second phase of the multitenant commercial center, near Mead, in which the institute is a charter occupant. The 6,000-square-foot, two-story addition will be on the
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—Mike McLean

Tekoa touts rail trail

Small town sees economic hope in former railroad line
June 22, 2017
Mike McLean
A small group of Tekoa-based boosters of the John Wayne Pioneer Trail hope a tentative agreement they've reached with owners of farmland between their town and the North Idaho town of Plummer will connect a three-state network of rail trails. The group
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Gonzaga Prep works on gym project while fundraising

Wrestling program will be in new stand-alone building
June 22, 2017
Mike McLean
The Gonzaga Preparatory School athletic and fitness facilities renewal campaign has raised enough contributions to start work on the first two of three phases planned for the $6.5 million construction project. The first two phases include construction of
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