The Expo mastermind’s work to renew Spokane’s urban core took him all over the world; the city wouldn’t be the same without King Cole’s vision

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Friends in high places: King Cole (at the billboard), future Speaker of the House Tom Foley (lower right), Mayor David Rodgers and powerful U.S. Sen. Warren Magnuson (lower left).

Those who’ve heard of King Cole likely know that he and his family moved to Spokane in the mid-1960s to help with business-led efforts to reinvigorate the city’s downtown. Cole, after all, was an urban planner who’d worked to revitalize the waterfront in San Leandro near Oakland in the Bay Area, and

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