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From small workshops to a large annual celebration, our events connect you with other business leaders, elected officials, and like-minded individuals who help provide a platform for the development of new business and customers for your company.
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Events / Meetings
From small workshops to a large annual celebration, our events connect you with other business leaders, elected officials, and like-minded individuals who help provide a platform for the development of new business and customers for your company.
Featured Upcoming Event
Partnership
GSI creates the place where organizations come together to advocate for the region, drive strategic economic growth and champion a talented workforce. Because our future is greater than any one of us.
By Jim Hedrick, GSI WA State Lobbyist and Spokane Regional Advocate We’re into the second week and Legislative Democrats have rolled out several of their high-profile priorities including policies on nurse staffing, recycling, middle housing, a margins tax to replace the existing B&O tax, and a new wealth tax. Tuesday, Senate Law & Justice Committee …
Show Takes Place Feb 7-9 at the Spokane Convention Center Did you know the playing surface of a football field is about an acre? Just under 2.3 million football fields of wheat alone were harvested in Eastern Washington in 2022. This is just one of Washington States valuable 300 agriculture commodities. Agriculture is big in …
Spokane AgShow Spotlights Local Agriculture Industry Read More »
Spokane Regional Delegation to Advocate on Behalf of the Spokane Region Greater Spokane Inc. will lead a delegation of area business, community, and education leaders for the annual Olympia fly-in January 25 – 27 to advocate on behalf of the Spokane region. The Olympia Fly-in is in partnership with Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce …
By Jim Hedrick, GSI WA State Lobbyist and Spokane Regional Advocate The 68th Washington State Legislature convened its 15-week (105-day) regular session this week under almost normal circumstances, after having operated in a mostly remote fashion for the past two years. This year, masks are still encouraged and required in most legislator offices and access …
By Gary Ballew, CEcd, VP, Economic Development First off, let me apologize to two excellent TV shows on FXX and IFC respectively, though it’s a pretty spot-on title for our next economic development introspective on our recent sales mission to Portland – our last sales mission in 2022. Anyone who has been to Portland knows …
Our 2023 event lineup is now live. From small peer-to-peer networking to large business and community education events, we strive to provide a host of valuable offerings that give you more opportunities to connect, be visible, learn what’s happening around our community, and do better business. Registration is now open, and seats are going fast. …
Governor Inslee’s Seven-Year Delay Puts Growth and Jobs at Risk (SPOKANE, Wash.) – Leaders in Spokane’s business community joined elected and transportation officials in expressing their concern about the governor’s proposed delays for the North Spokane Corridor (NSC). Governor Inslee’s biennial transportation budget, released on December 14, 2022, would push back the planned completion date …
Spokane Community Leaders Object to Proposed North Spokane Corridor Delay Read More »
By Gary Ballew, CEcdVP, Economic Development, Greater Spokane Inc. I recently had the opportunity to attend a trade show in South Korea with a local company, Eotron. A trip like this serves many economic development purposes. We had the chance to meet with Korean medical device companies interested in expanding to the United States, learn …
South Korea Recruitment Trip Grows Partnerships and Business Opportunities Read More »
New laws in Washington went into effect January 1 including: Minimum wage: Washington’s minimum wage is now $15.76 per hour for employees 16 or older. That’s $1.25 more than last year, an 8.6% increase. Pay range in job postings: As required in a 2022 law, employers with 15 or more workers must now include a …
More than 500 people attended Tuesday’s 2023 Economic Forecast at the Spokane Convention Center which featured three local economists Dr. John Mitchell, Principal, M&H Economic Consultants; Dr. Grant Forsyth, Chief Economist, Avista Corp.; and Dr. Vange Ocasio Hochheimer, Associate Professor of Economics, Whitworth University. In partnership with the Spokane Journal of Business, this was GSI’s …
