Recruiting new businesses

In 1998, Spokane’s civic and business leaders joyfully announced that Goodrich, a global aerospace company, would build a manufacturing plant in the area that would employ hundreds. Six years later, many of those leaders say they’d love to stage a similar event, but that’s becoming less likely. Economic development groups increasingly are focusing their energies on much smaller companies in hopes they will move here and grow. Read about their recruiting strategies in Sunday Business.