Twice as many tickets as last year were sold for this year’s Home Builders Association of Tri-Cities’ Parade of Homes, and organizers are hopeful next year will be a return to pre-pandemic levels.

This year’s builders were Titan Homes LLC, North Custom Homes, Riverwood...

There’s a “circle room” with comfortable chairs for sitting together and talking.

There’s a room with art supplies and a room with books and games.

There’s a “volcano room,” with pads, a punching bag and large, soft stuffed animals.

There’s a room with a small hospital bed filled with...

A desire to create permanently affordable homes has motivated volunteers to form a new community land trust (CLT) in the Tri-Cities.

The 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Tres Rios, is looking for grants, board members, viable homes, donations and, eventually, potential homebuyers.

While Tres Rios is a relatively new organization, forming in 2021,...

The Osprey Pointe development near the river in Pasco is set to get two higher-end hotels.

James and Meredith Sexton of JMS Construction Inc. recently signed franchise agreements for a Wyndham and a Wyndham Garden. They’ll build the Wyndham first, followed by the Wyndham Garden.

“In the spring we’ll start...

The Islamic Center of Tri-Cities is adding a building to its home on Bombing Range Road in West Richland. And the new facility will serve the entire community, the center’s president said.

The nearly 10,000-square-foot building will include a large multipurpose room, totaling about 6,300 square feet. It’ll also...

Documents filed under Washington’s environmental review process reveal a list of projects in the works for the Mid-Columbia.

The State Environmental Policy Act, or SEPA, often provides the first look at the mixed-use projects, mini storage facilities, apartments, industrial expansions, subdivisions and more that are working their way through...

A new 7,000-square-foot retail center is taking shape along Duportail Street in Richland, and it may be home to the second Tri-Cities location of a popular restaurant.

Gretl Crawford Homes is constructing the building in the city’s busy Duportail retail and restaurant corridor, home to Target, Walmart, Gold’s Gym,...

Ryan Hatch got his first taste of coffee as a boy on his grandparents’ ranch.

“They had these little blue camper mugs, from maybe the 1950s. They’d drink their morning coffee out of them. I’d go around after everything was all cold and drink (what was left),” Hatch said.

Now...

A growing organic and natural foods chain has opened its new grocery store in Kennewick after a two-month delay.

Natural Grocers remodeled the 15,597-square-foot building at 751 N. Columbia Center Blvd. It used to be home to Joann Fabric and Craft, which now is at Columbia Center mall.

Construction delays...

Pasco’s downtown revitalization efforts are set to be showcased at a statewide conference. 

Jacob Gonzalez, the city’s director of community and economic development, will lead a presentation with Framework Consulting during the Washington American Planning Association conference on Oct. 11-13 in Spokane. The session will...