Retail

Longtime Richland furniture store calls it quits

La-Z-Boy Inc. buys building for $3.5 million

July 31, 2024

A Richland furniture store is closing its doors this month after a final sale of all its current inventory. Once the store is cleared out, La-Z-Boy Inc. may open a showroom there as the company bought the 21,651-square-foot building for $3.5 million.

Keeping it local

Downtown flower shop is a family affair

July 15, 2024

Rachel Visick

This flower shop in downtown Kennewick has been around for more than half a century.

Christopher Ingersoll is the fourth-generation owner of Farmers Exchange in downtown Kennewick.

A cornerstone of downtown Kennewick

Inflation, rising costs force 100-year-old store’s closure

July 1, 2024

Sara Schilling

A longtime downtown Kennewick business has shut its doors after 100 years, citing economic challenges.

Park Place fulfills vision of creating mixed-use development

March 13, 2023

Jamie Council

Leasing Park Place’s remaining retail storefront marks the completion of a longtime vision to create a vibrant mixed-use urban community between George Washington Way and Howard Amon Park in Richland.

Tri-City shopkeepers bring grit, good luck to holiday shopping season

November 15, 2021

TCAJOB Staff

By Wendy Culverwell and Kristina LordCindy Mosley-Cleary took over a gift shop in downtown Kennewick about six years ago and made it her own, packing it with charming pick-me-ups and home décor items.She may be relatively new at owning a retail business, but she had decades of retail sales experience...

The economy in 2020 slowed but didn’t stop; 2021 will finish much higher

November 15, 2021

Guest Contributor

If you are the CFO, treasurer or accountant for any organization, you are excused if you hit the panic button over a year ago. The outbreak of Covid-19 brought unprecedented worry that the machinery of our economy would grind if not to a halt, then stagger forward.Those worries were understandable...

Benton County cannabis sales increase 16% in FY2021

November 15, 2021

TCAJOB Staff

Recreational cannabis sales in Benton County reached more than $39.6 million in fiscal year 2021.That’s up 16% from $34 million in fiscal year 2020.The increase over the previous year shows a slower rate of growth compared to the nearly 43% growth rate in fiscal year 2020 over the previous year.Statewide,...

State budget, data privacy are top priorities for retailers in 2021

November 12, 2020

Wendy Culverwell

Washington retailers will be laser-focused on the state budget when the 2021 Legislature convenes in January.They also expect lawmakers to revisit a data privacy bill that passed in the Senate this year but not the House. It has been revised for 2021.Mark Johnson, senior vice president of policy and governmental...

Retail sales face decline but likely less than elsewhere

November 12, 2020

Guest Contributor

Last year was a very good year for retail sales in the greater Tri-Cities. For the first time, taxable retail sales in the two counties breached the $6 billion mark, ending 2019 at nearly $6.4 billion, as the Benton-Franklin Trends graph shows.Taxable sales grew year over year by 9.8%. This...

Surge in donations prompts Richland thrift store expansion

November 12, 2020

Kristina Lord

When one door closes, another opens – in this case quite literally.The unexpected closure of a neighboring business and a spring surge in community donations prompted Community Thrift’s expansion.The 1½-year-old thrift shop at 303 Wellsian Way in Richland recently took over the lease of the storefront once occupied by Cascade...