Podiatrists gain foothold at Pacific Crest
In 2008 Drs. Ellen Wenzel and Zarko Kajgana made a decision to locate their Podiatric practice here in Clark County. Both had completed their training and residency, having matriculated from Scholl College of Podiatry at Rosalind Franklin University in 2007 and been Board certified by the American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics and Primary Podiatric Medicine. They set up […]
Retail Revs at steady rate
The most recent report from Washington State on local retail sales shows that Clark County consumers are still keep up a good pace in their shopping habits. Taxable retail sales climbed to $1.3 billion in the second quarter of 2014, from April 1 through June 30, the Washington State Department of Revenue reported Monday November […]
VDA- Property Owners Summit
Vancouver’s Downtown Association is again stepping to the forefront to inspire another surge of activity to the ongoing momentum created over the past three years. Lee Rafferty welcomed VDA members and property owners to a “Downtown Property Owner Summit” this past Thursday at the Brickstone Ballroom. The focus of the Summit was to bring Michelle […]
Community Foundation Kudos
We’ll lead this post with passing out some sincere and well deserved accolades to the South West Washington Community Foundation for planning and executing a great community wide event on Sept 18th – Give More 24! Designed to create a much wider reach to community members who might not attend the many fundraising events we […]
Three Pieces of Good News
There were three articles in the Columbian over the past few weeks that hold good news for Clark County economic trends as we head into the 4th quarter of the year. First Scott Bailey our regional labor economist with Washington Employment Security released an employment report that showed Clark County’s economy expanded by 5,800 jobs […]
Stop Leasing Own Your Business Property Workshop – October 1
Summer is definitely on the down hill slide. Kids are back to school, and it is time for us to present another session of Commercial Property 101 so that you can make 2014 the year you transitioned to owning your commercial property. This is a 90 minute workshop. You’ll get an overview of how over […]
End of a long wait with a short drive – 139th street overpass opens
Over fifteen years of hard work, 150 million dollars of investment , and a consistent vision for an improved community comes to life Wednesday with the ribbon cutting ceremony and the opening of the 139th Street overpass in Salmon Creek. Not all the work will have been completed says WSDOT – there remain some ramp […]
Summer warms up coffee inventory
As part of the general higher economic activity levels here in Clark County the past twelve months we are seeing a strong expansion in the number of coffee outlets. Dutch Brothers has been very active in searching for sites and has two under construction in Hazel Dell . This one , located at Northgate Center on […]
Top Projects tops off a great year
Wednesday July 23rd the Vancouver Business Journal held their 20th annual Top Projects recognition ceremony. This years ceremony was well attended and you could feel the enthusiasm and optimism in the crowd for the improved business activity levels from the past several years. Held at the former Vancouver City Hall – located on Broadway and […]
Trending to the Positive !
Trendlines are certainly encouraging for the employment picture in Clark County. Here are two recent graphs provided by the Washington State Employment Division. The first shows total employment, which almost topped 144 thousand residents as we reach the mid point of 2014. After the fits and starts we experienced in 2010 and 2011 the graph has […]
