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Article: Vancouver, Wash.-Area Businesses Look to Brighten Gray Days with Warm Colors.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- October 10, 2002
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By Gretchen Fehrenbacher, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 10--The red bull's-eye is still there, but something's different at Target these days.
No longer are the big boxes being painted white. Instead, the buildings are starting to appear in a color that hints of the sun-baked Southwest.
The retailer is by no means alone. A number of commercial buildings around Clark County and Portland are sporting a range of earth tones intended to help draw the dank chill out of the Northwest's dark months, if only in concept. A cross between orange and brown, the tones are known as terra cotta or any other ...