The Port of Benton located the site for the Clore Center and has a long-term lease with the center’s board. Since the founding directors kicked off a fundraising ­campaign for the Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center in 2003, the project has seen three executive directors, asked for some $3.5 million in state and federal money, been granted $2 million of that amount, and staged a groundbreaking ­ceremony, only to pull back and start over with a new plan. Those early missteps might have slowed the project, but they also helped move it onto a better path, according to Deb […]