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Tech Market dumps Riverstone idea

The partners who are pursuing the development of what they call the Coeur d'Alene Tech Market backed away from plans of establishing the facility at Riverstone. "It's kind of a bummer," said Charles Buck, who manages the University of Idaho's facilities in Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls and Sandpoint. The university is one of the three partners, along with Innovation Collective and Gizmo-cda. Buck said Tuesday the 11,000-square-foot space at Riverstone — which Barnes & Noble at one time planned to fill — was the "preferred option" and would have "enabled the highest impact." The Tech Market, if it's established, would serve as a startup business incubator, classroom and technology development space. Earlier this month, the partners went before the board of Coeur d'Alene's urban renewal agency, ignite cda, to ask for money to help establish and operate the Tech Market/David Cole, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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