It's been a year to build and rebui...

It's been a year to build and rebuild.

Downtown, Fairhaven, Western Washington University, Lowe's hearth Improvement, Fred Meyer, the former Albertson's in Fairhaven -- principally of Bellingham's top business stories for 2002 revolv around building, remodeling or expanding.

each January, the staff at The Bellingham Business Journal compiles a list of the top 10 business stories of the past year. For 2002 several of the items upon the list are continuations from 2001 -- with a not many notably positive exceptions.

The idling of Alcoa Intalco Works and closure of Georgia-Pacific soft part mill hit Whatcom County hard in 2001