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‘A bigger difference and a better difference’: Duane Hagadone guided CdA from mining, logging to tourism
Coeur d’Alene hasn’t always been known as a resort town.
Before the famous hotel and iconic golf course, the name Coeur d’Alene was more synonymous with logging or mining than it was with tourism and relaxation.
But as logging and mining’s fortunes faded throughout the mid-1900s, the area needed to foster a new industry in order to stay prosperous.
Duane Hagadone, probably more than anyone else, was the man who guided the region’s transition.
“(We) needed to make some changes,” former Coeur d’Alene Mayor Sandi Bloem said. “He was foremost in saying tourism could get us where we wanted to be.”
Hagadone, the megamillionaire developer and media mogul, died Saturday at his winter home in Palm Desert, California.
He was 88.
A North Idaho native, Hagadone started his business career young as a newspaper delivery boy at his father’s paper, the Coeur d’Alene Press. He d