HOOD RIVER BIZ BUZZ

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 […]

With a bocce ball court and solar panels on the roof, The Tofurky Company of Hood River (the business name for Turtle Island Foods) is throwing open the doors for public tours of its new manufacturing plant during the weekend of Sept. 6-8. The facility, expected to start operations in early 2014, will be only […]

THE DALLES – Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech) and Columbia Gorge Community College (CGCC) have signed an agreement that will help pave the way for qualified Columbia Gorge students to transfer seamlessly into several bachelor programs at Oregon Tech. Oregon Tech President Chris Maples and CGCC President Frank Toda formalized a closer working relationship designed to more […]