Business briefs: Anthony’s coming to CdA
Anthony’s Restaurants is coming to the Riverstone mixed-use development along the Spokane River in Coeur d’Alene. The Bellevue-based seafood chain will open a restaurant this year on Riverstone Drive near Bardenay restaurant.
Also, Advanced Health Care is building a surgical facility with 80 outpatient units at Riverstone this year, and home builder Aspen Homes will move into a new building on Lakewood Drive. Pinkerton Retirement Specialists has nearly finished building new offices at Riverstone on John Loop.
A new senior living community for people 55 and older also is planned, as are more riverfront townhomes. On the retail front, five new tenants have moved into the Village at Riverstone this year.
Riverstone and the Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce will host a Monday Night Mixer with food, wine and beer, and live music from 4-8 p.m. Monday on Main Street in the Village.
Bird flu losses top 20 million
DES MOINES, Iowa – Agriculture officials said five more farms likely have been affected by the deadly H5N2 bird flu virus, including an egg-laying operation with 5.5 million chickens.
Thursday’s announcement means Midwest losses will top 20 million turkeys and chickens.
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey said more than 15 million of Iowa’s 60 million egg-laying chickens are now affected with the news of it spreading to another farm in Buena Vista County.
Thursday’s numbers include two turkey farms in the same county with an unknown number of birds, an egg-laying farm in Sioux County with 84,000 chickens and an unknown number of chickens on a Clay County egg farm.
Apple Watch waiting for part
Shipments of the highly anticipated Apple Watch are reportedly being slowed by a faulty component manufactured by one of Apple’s suppliers in China.
The Wall Street Journal said the problem centers on a part called the taptic engine, a component designed to mimic being tapped on the wrist. The engine powers a small rod back and forth to alert users in lieu of a vibration or a ringer.
Apple discovered that some taptic engines supplied by AAC Technologies Holdings Inc. in the southern factory hub of Shenzhen began to falter, according to the Journal report.
Watches with the broken parts were being scrapped and Apple is hoping to increase production at the company’s second supplier, Nidec Corp. of Japan. Apple is also looking at adding new suppliers such as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., better known as Foxconn, the report said.
The setback complicates the rollout of the Apple Watch, which is only being offered online and in a handful of special boutiques. It is not available in Apple retail stores, the result of limited supplies and the need to market the watch differently from other Apple products.
GM upgrading U.S. factories
DETROIT – General Motors said it will spend $5.4 billion to improve its U.S. factories during the next three years, creating about 650 new jobs.
The company gave details of $783.5 million of the investments on Thursday and said the rest will be announced in the coming months.
GM said it will spend $520 million on equipment for future models at its Delta Township plant near Lansing, Michigan. The company’s pre-production center in Warren, Michigan, near Detroit will get $139.5 million for a new body shop and metal stamping equipment. And the metal stamping plant in Pontiac, Michigan, will get $124 million.