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Inland Empire Passes Plan for Growth

SPOKANE, WA-To bring order to rampant growth in the region, after more than six years of work, the City of Spokane was successful this week in adopting a comprehensive plan, which promotes growth in 17 designated centers and corridors, including downtown.

By Janet Parker | Updated on May 24, 2001

SPOKANE, WA-Over the past 10 or 15 years, Spokane’s Economic Development Council president Mark Turner has watched the region’s growth speed eastward along the Interstate 90 corridor from just west of Spokane in West Plains straight on through to Coeur d’Alene, ID.

Fueled by reasonable real estate prices and a plentiful work force, developers and tenants have focused in on the region. Large industrial, high-tech and business parks have been rising up left and right, and a plethora of new business, from start-ups to regional offices, have been taking them down.

The Spokane International Airport Business Park, for example, a master planned industrial and business real estate development, has thus far spread 41 buildings across 600 acres here. In West Plains, a multi-use development combining light industrial, biotech, office and retail, expects to grow as large as 300 acres.

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