Businesses asked to move from BBC

SANDPOINT — With the city working to keep Lead-Lok jobs in town, officials are asking other Bonner Business Center businesses to relocate.

A tenant of the Bonner Business Center since its foundation, medical device manufacturer Lead-Lok was purchased this spring by New York-based Graphic Controls. With the company’s expansion plans requiring full use of the center, however, city officials seek to avoid another economic hit following the loss of Coldwater Creek by asking other business tenants to find new accommodations.

According to Sandpoint Planning Director Jeremy Grimm, Graphic Controls officials were prepared to move Lead-Lok’s 62 jobs from Sandpoint if they couldn’t accommodate their planned expansion. Furthermore, the company plans to add 20 more jobs over the next year-and-a-half with salaries averaging $32,000 plus benefits, Grimm said.

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