Allan Brettman
The Columbian
Portland, OR, United States
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Camas’ Sigma has designs on a productive future
Clients, vendors, friends and employees’ families poured through the front door of Sigma Design on a rainy Thursday afternoon at the end of June. → Read More
Hazel Dell Walmart 1 of 120 with new electric-vehicle charging stations
Independence Day means freedom and that includes freedom to drive, a lot. → Read More
Southwest Washington High Tech Council targets education
When it formed, the Southwest Washington High Tech Council seemed to have two goals in mind: Improving transportation and grabbing a megaphone. → Read More
Nautilus chief financial officer Nayar resigns
Sid Nayar, chief financial officer of Nautilus since 2014, has resigned, the Vancouver-based exercise equipment brand announced Friday. → Read More
PeaceHealth, Mercy team for new housing
PeaceHealth and nonprofit developer Mercy Housing Northwest announced a plan Friday to build 72 units of affordable family housing near the hospital. → Read More
Camas shoe store Arktana to open Felida shop
Conventional wisdom says selling consumer goods like footwear is a task better left for a gargantuan website. Lower overhead costs and competitive pricing are two of the main reasons. → Read More
121-space lot coming soon to downtown Vancouver
Construction got underway this week on a 121-space parking lot near a downtown intersection that figures to be busy this summer with building activity. → Read More
109-unit project planned by Pearson
A 109-unit development on a parcel northeast of Pearson Field would have 25 condominiums and 84 apartments, under a plan submitted to the city of Vancouver. → Read More
Affordable seniors unit not immune from rent increases
Vintage at Vancouver Senior Apartment Homes residents in recent years can expect envelopes placed on ledges outside their units toward the end of May. The envelopes contain the rate increases that wil → Read More
How rents stack up in Vancouver versus Portland
Economic indicator reports arrive regularly in a newsroom. → Read More
Port of Ridgefield sells 9-acre site to developer
Panattoni, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based international development company, has purchased 9 acres from the Port of Ridgefield and is constructing a light-industrial building on the land. → Read More
Vigor cites due diligence in delay of plant launch
Work to transform the former Christensen yachts facility into a Vigor plant producing aluminum marine craft will likely start in late July or early August. → Read More
Report: Fort Vancouver visitors spent $64.9M
A National Park Service report issued this week shows that 1.1 million visitors to Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in 2018 spent $64.9 million in communities near the park. → Read More
ZOOM+Care names new CEO
Torben Nielsen on Tuesday was named ZOOM+Care’s chief executive officer for the urgent care provider, the Portland-based company announced. → Read More
Uptown Apartments in Vancouver sold
The Uptown Apartments, which opened early last year and became one of the brick-and-mortar symbols of Vancouver’s urban growth, has been sold. → Read More
Clark County’s job growth slowing, still strong
Clark County’s unemployment rate was 5.2 percent in April, four-tenths of a point higher than a year ago and a tenth of a percentage point lower than March, the state Employment Security Department an → Read More
Inslee signs sales tax bill
With Clark County business advocacy groups and more than three dozen Republican legislators arrayed in opposition, Don Thompson held out hope. → Read More
Vancouver networking group Impactful People NW ends with a crash
Impactful People NW board meetings have often been a mixture of business and frivolity. The April 15 meeting, however, was all business. → Read More
Suit, petition offer glimpse into Cowlitz tribal conflict
David Barnett, an early driving force behind the ilani casino at the Cowlitz Indian Reservation near Ridgefield, filed a lawsuit this week accusing the tribe’s public safety director of defamation. → Read More
Lucky Lager making a comeback — but not in Vancouver
Lucky Lager beer is making a comeback, 34 years after it ceased production in downtown Vancouver. → Read More