by Scott Rhode | Feb 3, 2025 | Architecture, Magazine
Forty years ago, cashflow from North Slope oil enabled Anchorage to erect civic buildings known collectively as Project 80s. The arena, convention center, library, and theater have undergone changes through the decades, and more facelifts are due.
by Scott Rhode | Jan 13, 2025 | Finance, Government, Magazine, Nonprofits, Retail
Linda Leary, Joe Schierhorn, Ralph Seekins, and (posthumously) the late US Representative Don Young form the Alaska Business Hall of Fame class of 2025.
by Scott Rhode | Nov 26, 2024 | Featured, News, Small Business
Four years after Chester Mainot launched his Get Scent candle business, he’s opening an Anchorage storefront with room for classes and shared inspiration.
by Scott Rhode | Nov 15, 2024 | News, Real Estate
RMG Real Estate Network founder Reed Moore is shifting his team of almost forty agents away from the Keller Williams brand and starting his own brokerage.
by Scott Rhode | Nov 14, 2024 | Featured, Government, News
The rate of nonresidents working in Alaska rose to an all-time high of 22.5 percent in 2023, as employers struggle to fill a steadily growing number of jobs.
by Scott Rhode | Nov 8, 2024 | Construction, Engineering, Featured, News, Telecom & Tech
Alaska Remote Imaging is pioneering beyond-line-of-sight drone operations for telecommunications in Cordova, and other applications await.
by Scott Rhode | Oct 28, 2024 | Government, Magazine
Flyers mailed this spring accused the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority of bad investments. Is the criticism justified, and what is AIDEA anyway?
by Scott Rhode | Oct 14, 2024 | Magazine, Oil & Gas
From its new headquarters building in Downtown Anchorage, Santos is watching construction proceed apace at the Pikka project on the North Slope.
by Scott Rhode | Sep 30, 2024 | Magazine, Retail, Small Business
Nearly a dozen secondhand and thrift stores are visible from one intersection in Anchorage’s Spenard neighborhood. Learn the difference between secondhand and thrift and how both shoppers and stores make money by keeping used merchandise in circulation.
by Scott Rhode | Sep 4, 2024 | Featured, Government, News
As with many civilian employers, the US military struggles to fill jobs, such as child care providers, to keep warfighters mission ready.