HOOD RIVER BIZ BUZZ

Enjoy the sidewalks leading to the Hood River Library on Saturday night, March 8, for the Library Foundation’s annual Feast of Words fund-raiser. The event runs from 6 to 9 p.m. Eating, drinking, dancing and chit-chat will help raise money to support a relocation of the Cascade Locks library inside its school home, and to […]

In a recent casual chat with Dallas Fridley, the Oregon Employment Department’s regional economist, he mentioned that Hood River County ranked third in the state for median income. Third? You gotta be kidding, right? Nope. In a follow-up conversation, Fridley said the number points clearly to one major — but perhaps unappreciated — recent trend: […]

After months of construction in The Dalles at the site of the former Albertson’s grocery store, Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette at 7 a.m. Thursday will open its 49th store — 9,500 square feet of curated contributions from people who in all likelihood have documented their donations for tax deduction purposes. Dale Emanuel, spokesperson […]

  More than three years after beginning the planning process, Wendy B. Willow, LLC, Certified Public Accountant, is excited to see her new 1,400-square-foot office space rising to the east of the dilapidated structure that has been home since 1999. Willow says she had no idea how complex and time-consuming the development process would be. […]

Walk in to Doppio or Dog River or Ground on any weekday morning, and what do you see? People drinking coffee — at laptops, cadging a little free WiFi and (maybe) conduct a little business. It’s the solo set at work. One friend, Pat Quigley, calls Dog River his Hood River office. But what if […]

Sustain Interiors, housed in basement space below Discover Bicycles at the corner of Third and State streets, has expanded west and added five office spaces around a shared meeting space. They call it the Sustain Design Collective. Lorin Banks, design assistant, says two of five spaces have been rented — to architect Charles Sholten and […]

If all goes well, the Sieverkropp family hopes to begin selling some of the 100 lots planned in the third phase of its home development efforts on the east side of the southern Heights area in Hood River. The family has been developing property in the area for several years. Linda Shipley, the oldest of […]