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Stephen W. Fishburn, Ogden’s business development manager, on Thursday talked with Weber State University students about the importance of building personal relationships to being successful in business. He lingered after his lecture to answer questions from students. (NANCY VAN VALKENBURG/Standard-Examiner)

Speaker: Build relationships to build success in business

Last updated Friday, March 15, 2013 - 9:14pm

OGDEN — The secret to building a successful life and a thriving city economy is the same: It’s all in building relationships.

That’s the advice Stephen W. Fishburn, Ogden’s business development manager, shared with business students at a Ralph Nye Series lecture this week at Weber State University.

“Deals get done because someone likes you and believes you,” Fishburn said about getting businesses to locate in Ogden. “There have been cases where we weren’t offering the best deal, but they trusted us and they believed we would do what we said we would.”

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Susan Hansen, who along with her husband, Stig, owns the Snowy Mountain Sheep Creamery, delivers a wheelbarrow of hay to a group of rams at their Eden farm last year. Utah’s growth is coming at the expense of its farmland, creating more questions than definitive answers when looking at the state’s future. (Standard-Examiner file photo)

Road corridors, housing, businesses devouring agricultural spaces

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, September 17, 2012 - 5:09pm

Mormon crickets played a key adversarial role in the early history of farming in Utah, but increasingly the pest is giving way to an even greater challenge facing modern-day farmers in the Beehive State: development.

Utah’s growth is coming at the expense of its farmland, creating more questions than definitive answers when looking at the state’s future.

Randy Parker, president of the state Farm Bureau, is hesitant to be too specific about where agriculture will be in the Beehive State in the next two decades, but he’s confident the need for agricultural products will grow, even as the state may lose farmland to development.

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Construction workers use a lift during the construction of a Home Depot Sales and Customer Service Center in the Business Depot Ogden in February. The trick for both Davis and Weber counties in the future is preserving enough space for existing businesses to expand, officials say. (ROBERT JOHNSON/Standard-Examiner)

Key to economic success: Providing space for existing businesses to expand

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, September 17, 2012 - 3:16pm

OGDEN — It may be the land and business that is already here that shapes the economic growth of the Top of Utah, not what new industry is yet to come.

While Weber County officials are looking to develop an agritourism ordinance directed at diversifying a farm’s income through broadening its offerings and adding value to its products, Davis County economic gurus are marshaling resources to preserve strategically located land banks that can be used to provide space to existing businesses needing to expand.

Weber and Davis county economic officials share the same belief that it is government’s role to facilitate commercial growth, not pay for it.

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Former Ogden mayor to help Morgan lure a hotel, boost economy

Deanne Winterton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 19, 2012 - 8:56pm

MORGAN — Morgan city has accepted a contract with former Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey for economic development activities, including grant writing and wooing a hotel developer to the area.

“He has the expertise to pull everything together and bring a hotel to town. He’s done it,” Councilman Ray Little said.

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New regional shopping centers strong indicator of economic recovery

Mayor Steve Curtis, Steve Curtis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 5, 2012 - 10:46pm

“Being in this business for as long as I’ve been in it, it’s sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.”

— CARLY SIMON

Over the past 20 years, there has been a dynamic shift in the look and feel of the regional shopping center. This truth is emphasized with the completion of the “open-air” City Creek Center in Salt Lake City.

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Candle Warmers' growth started with unexpected gift

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 10, 2012 - 9:42am

WOODS CROSS -- When Bart Kennington received a mug warmer as a gift nearly 12 years ago, he was a little bit confused.

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Ogden council to hear streetcar input tonight

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 12:42am

OGDEN -- The great Ogden streetcar debate is set to heat up again. The Ogden City Council will hold a special fact-finding work session tonight to discuss the viability of a streetcar project in the city.

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Davis leads Wasatch Front in job growth

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 16, 2011 - 10:49am

LAYTON — Davis County posted a 4.5 percent increase in jobs over the last 12 months to lead Utah’s Wasatch Front metropolitan corridor, according to a state report released Thursday.

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