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Stories by Sarah Wolf

Columbian staff writer

Mixed-use development planned for 22.35-acre parcel in east Vancouver

February 3, 2023, 6:04am Business

It’s one of few remaining large and undeveloped lots within Vancouver city limits, and its owner has big plans. Read story

An application has been filed with the city for a day care at 1705 S.E. 164th Ave. in east Vancouver, currently the site of Gustav's Pub & Grill.

Gustav’s restaurant in Vancouver might become day care

An application has been filed with the city for a day care at 1705 S.E. 164th Ave. in east Vancouver, currently the site of Gustav's Pub & Grill.

January 31, 2023, 6:04am Business

The east Vancouver home of the popular German restaurant Gustav’s may become a day care facility, according to pre-planning documents submitted to the city of Vancouver. Read story

Volunteer Harley Fowler, with bucket, pours a layer of rocks into a Grattix box at the Port of Vancouver last week. The boxes will be given for free to some businesses along the Columbia River.

Port of Vancouver’s Grattix boxes provided gratis

Volunteer Harley Fowler, with bucket, pours a layer of rocks into a Grattix box at the Port of Vancouver last week. The boxes will be given for free to some businesses along the Columbia River.

January 30, 2023, 6:05am Business

What began as a project to filter stormwater at the Port of Vancouver has evolved into an innovation now being spread to businesses up and down the Columbia River. Read story

An ambulance passes PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center on in September 2021.

Clark County, regional hiring appears to slow

An ambulance passes PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center on in September 2021.

January 24, 2023, 5:38pm Business

Hiring in Clark County appeared to be slowing in December, according to preliminary estimates from the Washington Employment Security Department. It was the same situation in each of Southwest Washington’s counties. Read story

Crumbl cookies are a made-from-scratch indulgence, as seen here in a photo from the Hazel Dell location.

Crumbl Cookies coming to Vancouver Mall area

Crumbl cookies are a made-from-scratch indulgence, as seen here in a photo from the Hazel Dell location.

January 24, 2023, 6:02am Business

Cookie lovers will rejoice with a second Vancouver-area Crumbl Cookies opening its doors in Orchards on Friday. Read story

Kevin Syverson, left, and Chase Kleinschmidt of Silicon Forest Electronics demonstrate a pick-and-place machine.

Clark County’s high-tech ecosystem takes a network

Kevin Syverson, left, and Chase Kleinschmidt of Silicon Forest Electronics demonstrate a pick-and-place machine.

January 22, 2023, 6:05am Business

When the Columbia River Economic Development Council was formed in 1982, the three largest employers in Clark County were the Boise Cascade paper mill downtown, the Alcoa aluminum smelter near the Port of Vancouver and the Crown Zellerbach paper mill in Camas. Read story

Clark College center strives to serve industry, students

January 22, 2023, 6:04am Business

Clark College’s Center of Excellence for Semiconductors and Electronics Manufacturing program is a big part of the region’s effort to train high-tech employees. Read story

Drivers pass land proposed for industrial development, left, north of state Highway 14. Developer Killian Pacific has plans for four large industrial buildings there, to be used in a flexible capacity.

Industrial development planned off Highway 14 in Vancouver

Drivers pass land proposed for industrial development, left, north of state Highway 14. Developer Killian Pacific has plans for four large industrial buildings there, to be used in a flexible capacity.

January 21, 2023, 6:02am Business

It’s a site that anyone who regularly drives down state Highway 14 in Vancouver would recognize — an empty, roughly 17 acres of land, just down the road from the Grand Central retail center. Now it’s being planned as a large flexible industrial development called simply The Collective. Read story

At left, two robbers are seen in this surveillance video captured at Sticky's Pot Shop in Hazel Dell in September. Armed robberies at cannabis retailers spiked statewide last year.

Cannabis shop robberies spiked in Clark County in 2022

At left, two robbers are seen in this surveillance video captured at Sticky's Pot Shop in Hazel Dell in September. Armed robberies at cannabis retailers spiked statewide last year.

January 19, 2023, 6:02am Business

It was almost 10 p.m. in late February 2022 when four armed robbers, all in their late teens and early twenties, stormed the Craft Cannabis Marijuana Dispensary on Andresen Road, holding two shop employees at gunpoint and stealing about $1,600 in cash plus cannabis-related products. Read story

A company sweatshirt is seen on the chair of an employee at Sigma Design.

Camas-based Sigma Design laying off 42 employees

A company sweatshirt is seen on the chair of an employee at Sigma Design.

January 17, 2023, 5:34pm Business

Camas-based Sigma Design Inc. is permanently laying off 42 employees in Camas and Vancouver as of Jan. 31, according to the Washington Employment Security Department. Read story