The Tri-City area

welcomed its second Firehouse Subs restaurant in May in Kennewick.

The 2,000-square-foot

restaurant is attached to a 3,000-square-foot SunMarket convenience store and

gas station at 10799 Ridgeline Drive, near the roundabout at West Clearwater

Avenue and Leslie Road.

The

restaurant, which has seating inside for 50 and on the patio for 30, features

décor reflecting the franchise’s founding family’s decades of fire and police

service. A custom, hand-painted mural by artist Joe Puskas showcases the

Horse Heaven Hills in the background, with Kennewick Fire Department firetrucks

from both modern day and the early 1900s.

Sun Pacific Energy

Inc., a family-owned and operated business, opened the area’s first Firehouse

Subs in Burbank in December 2017.

Sun Pacific Energy

plans to build another Firehouse Subs off Road 100 in Pasco later this year and

then begin construction of a convenience store, fourth Firehouse Subs and car

wash at Horn Rapids in 2020.

Shawn Sanderson,

district manager for Sun Pacific Energy and Firehouse Subs, said he’s excited

to serve up good food while sharing the brand’s commitment to service and local

public safety organizations through Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation,

which has donated more than $466,000 in life-saving equipment within

Washington. The franchise, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, was founded

by two firefighter brothers.

The Kennewick project

was completed May 9 and opened to the public May 14.

A&R Feser Inc. of

Kennewick was the general contractor.

Bruce Baker of N2K

Design in Richland was the architect.

The restaurant is open from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a

week.