Sandpoint Economy and the North Idaho Economic Outlook-Winter/Spring 2009
By Gary Lirette, Business & Investing in the Inland Northwest
By Gary Lirette, Host of North Idaho Business on KSPT and KBFI and Realtor for Tomilinson Sandpoint International Realty. How are things here in North Idaho? Besides being named to Sunset Magazine's Top 10 Resort Towns this year, and according to the United Health Foundation, Idaho was just named the nation's 8th healthiest state (http://www.americashealthrankings.org/2008/results.html). In Sandpoint and Priest River, several new businesses just opened, including a Jack in the Box, Big 5 Sporting Goods, the Priest River Inn, and Zip's. The new Mountain West Bank building on the way to Priest River now graces Highway 2, and the Panhandle State Bank is a monument downtown. As Paul Schaller, CEO of Quest Aircraft told me on my North Idaho Business radio show, Quest just hired 60 new employ...
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