Spokane looks to lure more parts makers

That’s what the Spokane Journal of Business reports http://www.spokanejournal.com/spokane_id=article&sub=2468 According to the JoB, Spokane development officials are working on a plan very similar to one in place at the Snohomish County Economic Development Council — attract a cluster of aerospace suppliers to supply 787 parts to Boeing.

Key Quote: “‘What I’ve been talking a lot about is, why couldn’t we have the equivalent of a Motor City here in Spokane?’ says Mary Lou Thomas, president of Spokane airplane parts maker Triumph Composites Systems Inc. ‘On a smaller scale, there’s no reason Spokane couldn’t be an aerospace city.’”