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Clark County business briefs

People in business

Firms, workers like amenities of Vancouver’s downtown

But Columbia River Crossing project clouds future

Employees of Gravitate enter their downtown Vancouver workplace through a side-street door and climb wooden stairs to their second-floor loft space.

Clark County at Work: Trail Tech Inc.

Trail Tech designs and manufacturers high-performance digital meters such as speedometers and voltmeters. It also makes high-intensity discharge and light-emitting diode lighting, plus electrical systems for motorcycles and off-road vehicles.

Liquid Gold offers taste of Northwest brews

Orchards business boasts variety of Northwest beers by the bottle — or bring your own and fill it up

Peter Wallace has an easy, if somewhat unusual, explanation for why he started a new gourmet beer business in Orchards.

Settlement may bring relief to stressed homeowners

Portion of $25 billion from mortgage giants could help Clark County residents

Clark County homeowners who are sinking under a high mortgage payment or owe more for their house than it’s worth could be thrown a lifeline as part of a $25 billion national settlement.

Financial relief may help Clark County underwater homeowners, foreclosure victims

Attorney general to explain benefits of national settlement

Clark County homeowners who are underwater, owing more for their house than it's worth, could be thrown a lifeline within the next six to nine months as part of a $25 billion national settlement.

WSUV students seek inspiration for 'Autovation'

Group working on exhibit for OMSI visit Dick Hannah collision center

Rick Stoker led his dozen visitors through rows of deconstructed cars at Dick Hannah Collision Center. As the center’s director, Stoker was eager to tell stories about the inner workings of automobiles. The visitors were from Washington State University Vancouver and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland. Arriving late for their 10:30 a.m. tour, the visitors first huddled with Stoker and Kent VanArnam, Hannah’s marketing director, in a conference room above the adjoining Chrysler dealership at the Vancouver Auto Mall. There, the WSUV students and staff rolled out digital images of their latest ideas for the exhibit on automobile technology they’re creating for OMSI.

Kaiser to close primary care unit at Vancouver Medical Office

Department staff will be reassigned to other county sites

Kaiser Permanente Northwest will close the primary care unit at its Vancouver Medical Office at 2211 E. Mill Plain Boulevard, dispersing staff to its other medical offices in Clark County.

County approves fee holiday for businesses

To qualify, projects must create at least 15 full-time jobs

Hoping to spur economic development and bring jobs to a county with an unemployment rate of approximately 11 percent, Clark County commissioners on Tuesday approved a fee holiday for certain businesses.

U.S. job openings near three-year high

But labor market not as dynamic as it was before recession

WASHINGTON -- The number of available jobs in the United States jumped in December to near a three-year high, supporting other data that show a brighter outlook for hiring.

Herrera Beutler seeks hearing on FDIC's loan sales

Loans were from failed financial institutions, including Bank of Clark County

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, joined fellow Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia on Tuesday in requesting a House hearing on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s sale of loans from failed banks, including the former Bank of Clark County, to Miami-based Rialto Capital Management, as well as similar sales.