Our annual list of the most-read stories on the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business’ website covered a range of topics — from restaurant sales, moves and closures and hotel openings to Trios Health’s financial crisis, float spas and supercars.

A story we wrote last year about the opening of Panera Bread and a list of Tri-City holiday bazaars also proved popular with online readers this year.

Here are the top stories of 2017, according to tcjournal.biz readers:

1. Retirement prompts owners to sell Cedars Restaurant (http://bit.ly/kennewickcedars): This June story about Kennewick’s waterfront restaurant Cedars going on the market for $2.62 million topped the list. Dave and Darci Mitcham have owned the 40-year-old restaurant for 11 years.
2. Ethos restaurant moves from north Richland to south Richland (http://bit.ly/ethosbakery): Ethos Trattoria’s owners decided to move from north Richland to south Richland. We reported the move of the full-service service restaurant and its plans for a name change to Ethos Bakery and Café in January.
3. Trios Health cuts staff, considers bankruptcy, mergers in wake of ‘financial crisis’ (http://bit.ly/trioscrisis): Trios Health has faced net losses of more than $29 million since 2013, including about $17 million last year, as well as a crushing debt load that’s crippled cash availability. This April story examined how the Kennewick Public Hospital District planned to address the financial crisis, which included laying off 25 staff.

4. Richland Fred Meyer begins $12M remodel to bring new services, selection (http://bit.ly/freddysremodel): Richland Fred Meyer’s $12 million renovation included a revamped wine and brew shop, grocery pick-up service and a new Starbucks. It was the Wellsian Way store’s first remodel in more than a decade, transforming the inside of its current footprint. The store opened in November 1981.
5. Richland’s iconic Bomber’s Drive Thru closes (http://bit.ly/bombersdrive): Richland’s iconic Bomber’s Drive-Thru restaurant closed in September. The popular soft-serve ice cream, shake and burger joint was a Richland landmark since 1952, first operating as a Tastee-Freeze. Li’l Firehouse Coffee reopened its second location in the building.
6. Richland’s new waterfront hotel aims to provide unique hospitality experience (http://bit.ly/LodgeColumbiaPoint): Our March story about the $8.5 million Lodge at Columbia Point in Richland reported it had been nearly 10 years in the making and a labor of love for owner Tom Drumheller. Construction on the boutique began in September 2016; it opened in May. A September story about Drumheller’s death shortly after the hotel opened also was among our most-read web stories of the year:  (http://bit.ly/Drumheller64).
7. Six-story hotel opens at Legends Casino in Toppenish (http://bit.ly/LegendsCasino): Each year about 7,000 people hop aboard the free shuttle buses in the Tri-Cities to travel to Legends Casino in Toppenish. They now can spend the night there with the opening of a six-story, 200-room hotel and conference center. The construction of the hotel anchors a $90 million Legends campus expansion.
8. Kennewick spa’s float therapy offers new way to heal, unwind (http://bit.ly/floattherapy): A new wellness spa in Kennewick offers floats in space-age looking tubs filled with warm, salty water dense enough to allow a person to float comfortably at the surface.
9. Vocational trade school to open in Pasco (http://bit.ly/citcpasco): A new trade school in west Pasco will provide classroom and laboratory space for apprentices pursuing careers in skilled trades, including future electricians, plumbers and sheet metal workers, all jobs in demand across the state. The Construction Industry Training Council of Washington, or CITC, plans to open its first dedicated schooling site in the Tri-Cities in time for the spring quarter in 2018.
10. West Richland sells land intended for supercar project for $1.15 million (http://bit.ly/shelbysc): West Richland land intended for a 40,000-square-foot manufacturing center, showroom and museum for exotic supercars recently was sold for $1.15 million to a Tri-City home builder, according to our November story. Despite years of delays and the sale of the nearly five acres to developer Ron Asmus in October, SSC North America LLC still plans to build the facility.