Coeur d'Alene City Administrator Jim Hammond was the keynote speaker at the 2015 Real Estate Market Forum on Thursday at the Coeur d'Alene Resort. (Coeur d'Alene Press photo: Hans Koepsell)

Jim Hammond stressed the importance of a partnership between the public and private sectors Thursday while addressing 480 real estate professionals at The Coeur d'Alene Resort. "Your success is our success," Hammond said. The Coeur d'Alene city administrator was the keynote speaker at the 2015 Real Estate Market Forum. For 28 years, the event has been hosted by Spokane-Kootenai Real Estate Research - a non-profit corporation focused on developing reliable databases of statistics and trends in the region's real estate field. ... In his speech, Hammond used the recession as an example of how a successful partnership between government and business can revitalize the economy. He said when the financial crisis hit the area, "it was not pretty"/Keith Cousins, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

Question: Do you think the Coeur d'Alene area has totally emerged from the Great Recession?