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Editor Linn Parish has worked for newspapers and magazines since 1996, with the bulk of that time being at the Journal. A Montana man who has called Spokane home for some time now, Linn likes Northwest trails, Deep South foods, and lead changes in the ninth inning.

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Landlords combat meth labs

Rental property owners in Spokane must pick up the costly cleanup bill as drug busts surge here

February 26, 1997

Linn Parish

Spokanes escalating fight against methamphetamines has drug an unsuspecting group of victimslandlordsinto the scourge.Law-enforcement authorities expect to bust around 100 methamphetamine labs here this year, and an estimated 90 of are

Gonzaga firms up plans for dormitory complex

Two three-story buildings are planned, would cost about $4.2 million to build

February 26, 1997

Linn Parish

Gonzaga University says it plans to move forward with an about $4.2 million dormitory complex on the north side of its campus.The project will include construction of two dormitory buildings in the east 600 block of Sharp Avenue, just across the

Throwing without your arm

BAS Throwing Systems LLC

February 26, 1997

Linn Parish

In the mid-1980s movie The Karate Kid, a wise, old martial-arts instructors first several lessons for his young prodigy involved having the youth perform tedious household tasks, rather than the kicking and punching exercises commonly with to

Tech parts makers retrench

Companies here pursue clients in other urban areas in light of long downturn

February 26, 1997

Linn Parish

Left high and dry by a slowdown in the electronics industry, Spokane-area high-tech parts manufacturers have had to chart new courses.Some of the companies have searched extensively elsewhere in the West for new business, a strategy that has off

Developers find more uses for new financing tool

Projects include four sites on West Plains, downtown garage, Sprague upgrades

February 26, 1997

Linn Parish

More Spokane-area developers are looking into whether tax-increment financing could act as a catalyst for big-ticket projects theyve been considering.At least two elected officials here also hope to take advantage of the new tool for public he

Plans start to gel for big clinic

Downtown sites eyed for $10 million center

February 26, 1997

Linn Parish

Inland Orthopedic Institute PLLC, of Spokane, is moving forward with plans to develop an ambulatory surgery center downtown.Inland Orthopedic could join forces on the project with Premier Development Inc., of Spokane, says Randy Ramey, president

$30 million racetrack considered

Facility would be located in East Spokane and seat up to 11,500 spectators

February 26, 1997

Linn Parish

A handful of investors is considering developing a $30 million car-racing track in East Spokane, attorney Roy Koegen says.Koegen, managing partner in the Spokane office of Seattle-based Perkins-Coie LLP, says some investors have approached him a

Big apartment complex appears to be coming

City issues building permits for $10.5 million in work in planned Douglass project

February 26, 1997

Linn Parish

A large, long-proposed apartment complex on Spokanes North Side, to be named Prairie Hills at Grayhawk, appears to be moving forward.The city of Spokane has issued building permits for seven of 10 apartment buildings planned in the first phase

Aquatics center eyed for Valley

Nonprofit hopes to open $12 million-to-$15 million, three-pool facility by 2003

February 26, 1997

Linn Parish

Spokane Regional Aquatics Center Inc., a new nonprofit corporation here, hopes to develop a $12 million-to-$15 million indoor swimming facility in the Spokane Valley.Jeff Eickerman, president of Spokane Regional Aquatics, says preliminary design

Tax-increment financing interests developers here

Granite Investments hopes incentive is used on project; others expected to follow

February 26, 1997

Linn Parish

Tax-increment financing wont become available in Washington state for another several weeks, but developers here already are looking into whether the city or county would use it in conjunction with their projects, which could be worth tens of of

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