MOSCOW A Moscow business owner who is moving his company to Pullman urged community leaders Wednesday to develop another business park.
John C. Overby, president of Advanced Hardware Architectures, was blunt in his remarks Wednesday at the Moscow Chamber of Commerce's annual luncheon.
New property should be developed ''so the next graduate out of the incubator could have a nice home to go to,'' Overby said. ''We didn't.''
Advanced Hardware Architectures was the first and so far the most successful business to be started in the North Central Idaho Business Technology Incubator at Moscow. Overby reported his profits have doubled each year, and he now employs about 50 people with an average salary of $40,000.
The business develops and produces computer chips for compressing data and correcting errors. The technology was a spinoff of the research of University of Idaho microelectronics whiz Gary K. Macki.
Economic development officials in Moscow and Pullman heavily courted Advanced Hardware Architectures for more than a year. The company will move to the Port of Whitman County Industrial Park,
where the plan is to grow to several hundred employees, Overby has
said.
He said in May that the company is relocating to Pullman because
of the port site, plus the port's financing and lease rates for a building that will be constructed there.
The first two companies to graduate out of Moscow's business
incubator also moved out of Latah County. Last year, CID Inc., a manufacturer of highly specialized agricultural equipment, moved to Vancouver, Wash., and S&S Telecom, a manufacturer of parts for telecommunications systems, moved to Coeur d'Alene.