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• Bonfire Marketing scoops up another Portland firm

  10-03-2017 23:42
  Bonfire Marketing, one of Portland’s fastest-growing private companies, is boosting its capabilities with the acquisition of another Portland marketing agency.Bonfire's acquisition of Response Capture brings demand generation and marketing automation skills into its fold. Bonfire built is business on content development, search engine optimization and marketing, strategy and social media services.The company was ranked No. 78 on the 2016 list of the fastest growing private companies by the
  
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• Outdoor industry seeks to create an Oregon Office of Outdoor Recreation

  10-03-2017 23:01
  Members of Oregon's outdoor industry are pushing a new bill in Salem that would create a state Office of Outdoor Recreation.The office would be charged with building and promoting Oregon's outdoor industry, which contributes as estimated $12 billion to the state economy."How do you grow Portland's outdoor economy? That's the goal," said Adam Baylor, who does stewardship and advocacy for the nonprofit climbing group Mazamas. "Can we grow from $12 billion to $24 billion?"Baylor said other states&h
  
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• A to Z breaks new ground in Oregon wine as a 'Hot Brand'

  10-03-2017 21:59
  For years, the surest indicator of the continuing growth of the Oregon wine industry was yet another winery sprouting up. The number grew from 139 in 2000 to more than 700 last year, an ever-expanding universe of mostly small, boutique producers.But in a sign of one company’s success and, perhaps, changing times on the state’s wine scene, something different has now emerged: a certifiably big, fast-growing brand.A to Z Wineworks this month was named a “Hot Brand” for 2016
  
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• 5 things know today, including Kalama's beery gain and Oregon's broker losses

  10-03-2017 16:45
  It seemed like we were constantly operating one day ahead this week. Monday felt like Tuesday, Tuesday felt like Wednesday, and so on.Whatever, the week, for us anyway, is over, which means you'll have to wait until Monday for a Five Things that's fresher than this one. Hopefully, this'll suffice until then.Designs on successDesign Week Portland is only five years old, but it's, like Feast Portland and other doings that have attracted many people in a relatively short period of time, captured&he
  
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• Vancouver's Red Lion demo to take place next week

  10-03-2017 16:12
  The Port of Vancouver USA said Thursday that parts of the former Red Lion hotel, at its Terminal 1, will start to be demolished next Thursday.The March 16 work will launch the removal of 113 rooms in the north and west wings over the next four weeks.The reason: Those wings would encroach on the the guture hotel planned by Vesta Hospitality, which is working with the Port to redevelop the site. Traffic around the area isn't expected to be drastically affected, according to the Port.The hotel&hell
  
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• A first look at 2017's ambitious Design Week Portland's programs (Photos)

  10-03-2017 15:59
  Next month's Design Week Portland festivities will spread the event further around the town.Specifically, the event's headquarters will move to the city's Eastside, landing at the Redd, at Southeast Salmon Street and Eighth Avenue in the Central Eastside Industrial District. The Ecotrust development will serve as a conduit for the April 21-April 29 program that's expected to draw 5,000 participantsDesign Week Portland looks to promote the notion of design as an economic resource. It does so thro
  
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• Sale of Terminal 1 property to Lithia moves forward

  10-03-2017 01:22
  About two-and-a-half-months after the city selected Lithia Real Estate Inc.'s $12.5 million bid for the Terminal 1 Property, the two parties are officially under contract and on their way to sealing the deal.Andrew Plummer, general manager of Lithia's Mercedes Benz of Portland, said that Lithia's due diligence period has begun and that they now have 150 days to close on the 14.5-acre property."Lithia Motors is very excited for this next phase," Plummer said in an email, "and we look forward to&h
  
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