Discovery Corridor – Another Step Forward !
While much of Clark County seem to be caught up in a debate about development and growth around black oil trains , there is a group taking an entirely different tac to create new jobs and growth in our community built around expanding our ability to use and maintain clean healthy water. Tuesday the Clark […]
Buffett and Commercial Real Estate
I’ve seen a number of references recently to an article in Forbes where Warren Buffet make comments on a couple of commercial real estate properties he has owned for years. I copied the story below – Read it with a couple of things in mind : While Buffett is not a CRE investor per se, […]
Real Estate Roundup
The Columbian does a good job of keeping track of commercial real estate transactions here in Clark County both large and small. Here are a few they reported on March 31 2014. Specific congratulations to Terry Phillips , Charlie Kleier, Tamara Fuller and Deborah Ewing for closing sales transactions. Double Diamond LLC, doing business as […]
Start 2014 with good news from 2013
Just before the Christmas Holiday the Vancouver Business Journal concluded a recent survey and tally of the “Best in Business” in Clark County. The survey had 10 categories that covered a wide range of business types. We were excited to receive a letter from VBJ editor Nick Kulmac telling us Coldwell Banker Commercial had been […]
Follow up – Boardroom Executive- More consolidation in the medical world
Interesting news release in the Columbian today. Headline is that PeaceHealth and Vancouver Clinic are forming a joint practice. Here is a link to the announcement. The thrust of the article is that PeaceHealth and Vancouver Clinic have formed an organization called Columbia Integrated Network using a PeaceHealth subsidiary called HealthVentures. It is the sixth […]
Board Room – Executive Session
The inaugural Board Room – Executive Session presented by the Vancouver Business Journal kicked off Thursday October 3. The topic was the Affordable Care Act. As usual John Mc Donagh and his staff did an excellent job in selecting both an important topic, and a top quality panel. Being that we’ve had almost three years […]
Board Room Breakfast Series
Congratulations to John and Steve McDonagh of the Vancouver Business Journal. They had been planning to bring a fresh and relevant business information event to Clark County in 2013. They are off to a great start as tickets for the Board Room Breakfast Series have sold out. If you don’t have one call a frreind or check […]
New Sources of Capital : Pub Talk
Here at the start of 2013, as the U.S. jobs market continues its slow, not-very-impressive-but-nonetheless-forward march, one area of the economy still lags. Banks have only recently begun to lend again. . Both individuals and small businesses have faced tight credit standards enforced by risk-averse banks; mortgages have been hard to obtain, and small business […]
Industrial Forecasted To Heat up 2013 ?
Here is a summary of a press release from the National Association of Inustrial and Office Parks that has their outlook for 2013. According to the NAIOP Industrial Space Demand Forecast they expect the U.S. industrial market is to experience significant growth throughout 2013 and 2014, with annual net absorption forecast to reach 150 million and 175 million […]
YMCA – Clark County – come check out your new pool !
February 7th I attended a great event – the Kickoff reception for the public portion of an 8.2 million dollar Capital campaign to expand and improve the Clark County Family YMCA’s Orchard’s facility. Improvements include a six lane lap pool, an indoor running track, upgraded lockers, an enclosed youth center, and of finally , a coveted […]
