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Marce Edwards is the business editor. She has been at The News Tribune for seven years and has written about technology and big businesses in the South Sound including Weyerhaeuser and Russell. Before moving to Tacoma, she worked at The Idaho Statesman in Boise. She is a Northwest native who likes to garden and refuses to use an umbrella. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and two kids.
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The site of the former Asarco copper smelter's towering smoke stack gains a new landmark Sunday with the opening a 3,000-square-foot luxury model home on the site.
The stack, long ago imploded, carried the fumes from the smelter below along Commencement Bay into the atmosphere.
The model home is the second from developer Mike Cohen who is buying the former industrial site and transforming it into Point Ruston. Stack Hill will be the site of 36 single family homes.
The old smelter site below is planned for condominiums, offices, a hotel and retail stores.
The grand opening event will be held at 5229 North 49th Street in Ruston, from noon to 3 p.m.
Of the 36 homesites on Stack Hill, 19 have been reserved by potential homeowners.
The 3,002 square foot model features 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a library, entertainment suite, with several deck and patio areas offering views of Commencement Bay.
Preview pictures of the home are available here.
Moses Lake, without air service for two years, will gain new airline connections in June.
United Airlines' affiliate SkyWest Airlines, will begin daily flights to Seattle then using a 30-seat Embraer Brasilia turboprop aircraft.
The community lured SkyWest to the Grant County International Airport with $517,500 in pledges from local businesses for airline trips.
Specific schedules are expected to be announced later this month.
Las Vegas' Allegiant Air has announced new flights from a dozen small cities including Bellingham and Medford, Ore., to Los Angeles.
Those new flights will provide additional competition to Alaska Air Group, parent company of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air.
Alaska Airlines provides service to Los Angeles from Sea-Tac with a connection to Bellingham by Horizon Air. Horizon offers once-daily non-stop service from Medford to LAX.
Allegiant's service begins May 1 from Medford and May 2 from Bellingham. Allegiant operates MD-80 jets and often flies only a few days a week to its destination instead of daily.
The airline will operate only two weekly trips from Medford to Los Angeles on Mondays and Fridays. Bellingham flights to LA will operate Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Mokulele Airlines, the growing Hawaiian air carrier headed by former Tacoman Bill Boyer, is finding living in the big leagues a financial strain.
Mokulele Wednesday staved off seizure by Republic Airways by making a last-minute $300,000 payment on a loan Republic had extended the airline.
Boyer, a former baggage handler with Alaska Airlines who struck it rich by devising a portable video player caled the DigEplayer for use by airline passengers, said he is seeking new investors to help make upcoming payments due Republic.
Mokulele employees helped finance the loan payment by deferring their pay.
Mokule recently began service using two-engine Embraer jets operated by Republic but branded as Mokulele. Mokulele's fleet previously consisted only of single-engine Cessna turboprops.
The downturn in tourism in the 50th state has affected the airline and hotel business dramatically.
Boyer told a Hawaiian television station that the percentage of seats filled on the company's new jet flights has increased substantially.
Republic loaned Mokulele $8 million to help start up the new service.
The union representing 700 Boeing engineers in Wichita will resume negotiations with the company Monday in hopes of reaching agreement on a new contract.
Those engineers, members of Tukwila-based Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, earlier this month rejected Boeing's "best and final offer" for a new contract.
That offer fell short of the contract Boeing gave SPEEA-represented engineers and technical workers in the Puget Sound area in December.
The union said member surveys point out four or five areas where members believe Boeing's offer must be improved. Those areas include compensation increases, job security and provisions for treatment of union workers if Boeing sells its Wichita operation.
Boeing sold the commercial side of its Wichita business to Spirit AeroSystems in 2005 but kept the military side because of concerns about outsourcing sensitive weapons system business to a foreign company. Spirit is owned by Toronto's Onex Corp.
Recent news stories have raised the spectre of Boeing selling the military operation there also.
