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Financial Literacy for the next generation

Financial Literacy for the next generation

To graduate from high school, students in Washington have to pass tests showing ...

Overcoming unemployment

Overcoming unemployment

The Job Seekers Conference, a locally-based employment seminar, will hold its ne...

Land here, learn here

Land here, learn here

Michelle Giovannozzi, Corporate Relations Manager for Clark College’s Corporate ...

Walmart opens hiring center in Vancouver

Walmart opens hiring center in Vancouver

Walmart has opened a temporary hiring center to help fill about 65 jobs at a new...

City’s pre-lease program paying dividends

City’s pre-lease program paying dividends

Submit an application and wait. Play phone-tag. Alter and adjust your plans. Res...

Crude oil facility coming to Port of Vancouver

Crude oil facility coming to Port of Vancouver

Tesoro Corporation and Savage Companies today announced plans to develop and ope...

Banking & Money Management

Financial Literacy for the next generation

Financial Literacy for the next generation

To graduate from high school, students in Washington have to pass tests showing their proficiency at math, writing and reading. But when it comes to balancing a check book, handling a credit card wisely and interacting in the world of business, there’s an even harsher exam, with just one question at its core: do they sink or do they swim? The answer may affect today’s students for the rest of thei...

Real Estate & Development

Land for jobs: Clark County’s major obstacle

Land for jobs: Clark County’s major obstacle

There are a lot of moving parts to creating a shovel-ready parcel of land for the industrial or commercial real estate market. To name a few, there’s purchase negotiations, zoning, roads, water and sewer, telecommunication services, power supply, stormwater issues, wetland issues and multiple layers of permits. Having a plentiful supply of such parcels would, according to Lisa Nisenfeld, president...

News Briefs

Financial institutions step up in support of Share

Financial institutions step up in support of Share

Seven local financial institutions answered a recent challenge to match (or beat) a $1,000 Brick Campaign donation by Columbia Credit Union at the new Share Fromhold Service Center (2306 NE Andresen Rd., Vancouver).

Responding to the challenge was Riverview Community Bank, Columbia Bank, Umpqua Bank, Wells Fargo, Regents Bank, iQ Credit Union and Home Street Bank. In total, the institutions raise...

Spotlight

Oakiwear: Enabling playtime

Oakiwear: Enabling playtime

The challenges of parenthood often compel mothers and fathers to be resourceful. For Susan Simper, that ingenuity has turned into a budding business adventure.

The mother of twin boys spends a lot of time with her kids at nearby creeks catching crawdads and playing in the mud. Consequently, she spends a lot of time cleaning up, too.

“I had a hard time finding really good things that they could w...

R&D Briefs

Realty Pro opens second office

James Kimball, owner of Realty Pro, has opened a second sales office in Hazel Dell at 10113 N.E. Highway 99.

The original office is located at 12000 S.E. Mill Plain Blvd. in Vancouver. The addition is an effort to be more proactive on the west side and north end of the county.

Additional sales agents are being recruited to staff the new office and grand opening events are in the works.

Orchards Market Center sells

Battle Ground real estate

investors Vandermast Centre LLC bought Orchards Market Center,

11505 N.E. Fourth Plain Blvd. in Vancouver, from Lawrence and Barbara Murray for more than $8.9 million.

The center has 45,439-square-feet of improvements on about 4.7 acres, and is part of a larger shopping center that houses Sportsman’s Warehouse, Office Depot, Rite Aid and Jo-Ann Fabrics.

Deborah Ewing and Eric Fuller of Eric Fuller & Assoc. represented the sellers in the transaction.

Washougal could gain Best Western near waterfront

Tualatin-based EA White Construction Co. is proposing a four-story, 46,346-square-foot Best Western hotel just east of Parker’s Landing in Washougal.

If approved, the hotel would have 78 units.

The two-parcel site is located north of South “A” Street, south of Highway 14, east of First Street and west of South Second Street, about a block from the waterfront.

The property is owned by Portland-based Shree Bhagya Laxmi LLC.

A preapplication conference with the applicant is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Oct. 31 at Washougal City Hall, 1701 “C” St.

Brokerage firm relocates downtown

Real estate brokerage firm Equity Network Services has relocated from Woodland to the 10th floor of the Bank of America Financial Center, 805 Broadway St., in hopes to increase its share of the commercial real estate and property investment market.

The company has expanded with the move, allowing two real estate associates to join longtime brokers Bill Behrens and Rick Ely.

Ely has taken over the role of designated broker for the company, previously held by Behrens, who has been with ENS for 25 years.

Opinion

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Don’t let your lease renewal catch you off guard

Don’t let your lease renewal catch you off guard

To the business owners out there leasing office space, here’s an important question: When is the last time you looked at...

Remember the big picture

Remember the big picture

Remember the big picture. This phrase became indelibly etched on my mind by my father when I began learning the craft of...

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