Building Purchase Yields Unexpected Business Reward

When Molly and Matt Highby opened Highby Forest Products in May, they didn't go in with a lot of expectations.

"We didn't know the first thing about the business,"says the Molly, the company's president. But what they did know in looking at the opportunity to purchase the former Anderson Forest Products, was that it appeared to have some promise.

But it's a business that could just as easily have fallen by the wayside had the Highbys not had a wider vision for the community. That's because Molly and Matt were looking for warehouse space for a completely different endeavour when they looked at...