Howard S. Wright has been hired to build the new Lynnwood Convention Center at a cost of nearly $12 million. The new convention center is planned as the cornerstone of Lynnwood’s new city center. A groundbreaking ceremony will be March 23, and a grand opening is expected for April 2005. Wright’s project manager, Ernie Emmett, is the son of the superintendent for the Alderwood Village Shopping Center project in 1963. The center is being replaced by the new convention facility.
Root beer made by Scuttlebutt Brewery has been named among the 10 best in America by critic Luke Cole. Cole said the root beer was the 10th best in the country because of its spiciness and rootiness. He picked Gale’s root beer of Chicago as the nation’s best. Washington state had four root beers in the top 10, including Americana of Redmond, XXX of Issaquah and Henry Weinhard of Tumwater.
Bothell-based Microvision Inc. said Wednesday that it lost $5.2 million, or 26 cents a share, in the fourth quarter of 2003, compared with a $6.9 million loss for the same period in 2002. The maker of augmented vision and light-scanning equipment said its overall revenue for 2003 was down by more than $1 million, to $14.7 million. Just less than half of the company’s 2003 revenue came from development contracts with the federal government, while revenue from sales of Microvision’s Nomad vision system and its bar code scanner totaled $1.2 million. The overall net loss for last year came to $26.2 million, or $1.46 a share, compared with $27.2 million in 2002.
Ford Motor Co. is recalling more than 1.2 million Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable sedans because of problems with the brake lights or air filters, the company said Wednesday. Ford is recalling 938,789 Taurus and Sable sedans from the 2000-2003 model years because the brake lights can malfunction. The company is recalling an additional 281,926 Sable and Taurus sedans from the 2003 model year because the air filter paper in the engine can smolder or burn.
Time Warner Cable will consider including cellphone service as part of the bundle of services it offers consumers, Glenn Britt, chairman and chief executive of the Time Warner Inc. unit said. The nation’s No. 2 cable provider, which is rolling out local telephone service, “needs to look” at offering wireless phone service as well, Britt said.
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