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Holland Partner Group is building a mixed-use residential and office building at Block 10, the last of the downtown Vancouver &quot;brewery blocks&quot; that the city purchased for redevelopment back in the 1990s.

Downtown Vancouver is on the rise

Holland Partner Group is building a mixed-use residential and office building at Block 10, the last of the downtown Vancouver &quot;brewery blocks&quot; that the city purchased for redevelopment back in the 1990s.

February 7, 2021, 6:05am Business

Despite numerous impacts up and down the construction pipeline — everything from skyrocketing material prices to widespread labor shortages — the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t constrained the amount of development in downtown Vancouver. Read story

Pedestrians pass a GameStop store Thursday in the Manhattan borough of New York. GameStop stock had rocketed from below $20 to more than $400 this month as a volunteer army of investors on social media challenged big institutions who has placed market bets that the stock would fall.

Clark County residents play bit parts in GameStop drama

Pedestrians pass a GameStop store Thursday in the Manhattan borough of New York. GameStop stock had rocketed from below $20 to more than $400 this month as a volunteer army of investors on social media challenged big institutions who has placed market bets that the stock would fall.

February 7, 2021, 6:04am Business Subscriber Exclusive

When 32-year-old Vancouver resident Brian Geddis began regularly trading stocks on the Robinhood app last year, it was mainly to keep busy after he lost his job in the pandemic. But when he decided to make a bigger bet on video game retail chain GameStop two weeks ago, he felt… Read story

(The Associated press files)

Total continued jobless claims fall for 4th week in Clark County

(The Associated press files)

February 7, 2021, 6:02am Business

Unemployment insurance claims in Clark County continued a four-week-long decrease for the local economy’s most telling factor: total continued unemployment insurance claims. Those claims fell to 16,354 last week from 16,406 claims the week before. Read story

Priscilla Mosby of Amboy Market, from left, pauses for a portrait with Gurvinder Sarai, and her husband, Bharwinder Singh, the store&#039;s owner. Singh moved from India to America once he was an adult for better opportunity.

Working in Clark County: Bharwinder Singh, owner of Amboy Market

Priscilla Mosby of Amboy Market, from left, pauses for a portrait with Gurvinder Sarai, and her husband, Bharwinder Singh, the store&#039;s owner. Singh moved from India to America once he was an adult for better opportunity.

February 6, 2021, 5:00am Business

Bharwinder Singh was a boy in the town of Jalandhar, not far from the Pakistan border in northern India, when his father came to America for work in the 1980s. Read story

TSA Officer Raven Moore walks past the exterior of Beaches restaurant at Portland International Airport on Thursday morning. Beaches at the airport is closing at the end of March because the airport is being remodeled. The restaurant might not reopen after.

Beaches restaurant to depart from Portland International Airport

TSA Officer Raven Moore walks past the exterior of Beaches restaurant at Portland International Airport on Thursday morning. Beaches at the airport is closing at the end of March because the airport is being remodeled. The restaurant might not reopen after.

February 5, 2021, 6:05am Business

Beaches restaurant at Portland International Airport is closing on March 31 for a five-year-long remodel project in the airport’s main terminal, but the popular restaurant might not return. Read story

Entertainment venues such as the Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, forced to completely shut down for most of the past year. A new federal program promises relief grants for the performing arts industry, but applications aren&#039;t available yet.

Clark County theater owners frustrated as information on federal grant slow in coming

Entertainment venues such as the Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, forced to completely shut down for most of the past year. A new federal program promises relief grants for the performing arts industry, but applications aren&#039;t available yet.

February 4, 2021, 6:00am Business Subscriber Exclusive

December’s $900 billion federal COVID-19 relief bill included a $284 billion funding infusion for the Paycheck Protection Program, giving beleaguered small businesses a chance to apply for a second loan, but it also set aside another $15 billion for theaters, museums and performing arts venues. Read story

Vancouver’s ZoomInfo launches Targeted Audiences tool

February 4, 2021, 5:58am Clark County Business

Vancouver-based marketing intelligence company ZoomInfo announced Wednesday it has launched a new product called Targeted Audiences, aimed at giving digital marketers a more accurate way to search out their ideal customers. Read story

ilani celebrated the debut of its new parking garage by commissioning a pair of edible cars to race down the access ramp. According to ilani, the cars were 91 percent cake. Top, ilani commissioned two cake cars to celebrate the opening of its new parking garage. Each car weighed in at about 670 pounds and consisted of a cake body mounted on an aluminum frame.

Debut a piece of cake as edible cars greet new ilani parking garagevideo icon

ilani celebrated the debut of its new parking garage by commissioning a pair of edible cars to race down the access ramp. According to ilani, the cars were 91 percent cake. Top, ilani commissioned two cake cars to celebrate the opening of its new parking garage. Each car weighed in at about 670 pounds and consisted of a cake body mounted on an aluminum frame.

February 3, 2021, 6:05am Business

ilani has officially opened its new six-story parking garage, and the casino opted to celebrate the occasion by racing edible cars — as in, cars made primarily out of cake. Read story

Will Campbell, assistant metro editor at The Columbian, makes preparations before hosting the annual Economic Forecast virtually at Wager Audio on Tuesday morning. The event, like all other events, has had to adapt to an all-virtual setting.

2021 Economic Forecast addresses pandemic’s disruptions, path to recovery in Clark Countyvideo icon

Will Campbell, assistant metro editor at The Columbian, makes preparations before hosting the annual Economic Forecast virtually at Wager Audio on Tuesday morning. The event, like all other events, has had to adapt to an all-virtual setting.

February 2, 2021, 6:07pm Business

The 2021 Economic Forecast had a vastly different feel to it on Tuesday compared with the last 35 years it’s been around. Read story

Concept art from Koelsch Communities shows the planned design of a new senior living facility in Salmon Creek called University Village. The $108 million project broke ground in January and is targeted to open 2022.

University Village breaks ground near Salmon Creek

Concept art from Koelsch Communities shows the planned design of a new senior living facility in Salmon Creek called University Village. The $108 million project broke ground in January and is targeted to open 2022.

February 1, 2021, 6:05am Business Subscriber Exclusive

Koelsch Communities has kicked off construction of a $108 million development that will establish a new senior living center called University Village in the Salmon Creek area. The project broke ground in January and is scheduled to open in 2022. Read story