Hotoveli Boutique, Richland’s newest fashion hub, has arrived at Queensgate Village, giving area fashionistas another local outlet to find the perfect outift, or pieces to complete their current wardrobe.Hotoveli offers a fashion house atmosphere with a selection of name brand, high-end items, as well as affordable styles to suit daughters,...

They already knew it was true, but now, everyone else will too.TiLite, a custom wheelchair manufacturing unit of Permobil, has been a fixture in the Pasco community for about 20 years.It has been creating innovative, aluminum and titanium wheelchairs while meeting the high standards of the FDA.Now, after months of...

A nurse with a heart for geriatric care has transformed her former Kennewick home into an adult family home, realizing a longtime dream and goal that took shape after losing her grandfather.Called Cherry Creek Adult Family Home, the single-family house built in 2018 in the Cherry Creek Estates neighborhood east...

Sooner or later, more Mid-Columbia businesses are going to try to bring their workforce back into their buildings.As a first step toward that goal, MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions is offering building confidence reports through its Comeback with Confidence program.Pat Roberts, general manager for MacDonald-Miller’s Eastern Washington office, said many businesses and...

Tri-Citians know a lot of the bigger names in the federal government contractor arena thanks to the proximity of the Hanford site.But not all government contracts have to do with Hanford and not all government contractors are big companies.Patriot Rooter & Irrigation LLC is a locally-owned and -operated small business...

Charles Conte Jr. decided late last year it was time to move to the Tri-Cities, where his wife Susan’s family lived.In January, the family moved from Virginia, where Charles worked in his  father’s bike shop chain, Conte’s Bike Shop. He intended to work for a local nonprofit.“Susan was born and...

While Tri-City businesses have been reorganizing to continue serving customers and weather the fallout from Covid-19 stay-home orders, one pair of young entrepreneurs have leveraged the austere conditions to launch their dream business.Redefined Meals, a weekday lunch service, delivers healthy meals prepared fresh from scratch that morning to desks and...

Richland’s Lisa Chapman-Rosa is always looking for innovative ways to help her companies thrive.Not that she’s really needed to.Her Tri-Cities Mobile Drug & Alcohol Testing business has had plenty of work around the Mid-Columbia.The construction company she started in 2007, Total Site Services LLC, a woman-owned business, has earned millions...

The franchise owner of the Sylvan Learning Centers in Kennewick and Richland has figured out several ways to meet student needs in the Tri-City area since 2005.There are the learning centers in Kennewick and Richland where students come for tutoring.There are in-home visits, where Sylvan sends a tutor to the...

For years, Mindi Irvine had the idea of offering a video-type health care service as part of the Oasis Physical Therapy daily routine.But it just never happened, thanks to the busy, day-to-day operations of her five clinics in the Tri-Cities and, most recently, in Walla Walla.“We’d been talking about this...